SharePoint automation with PowerShell

Posted on January 31st, 2007 by Mark Sheppard

I spent a lot of time automating SharePoint when the company I work for installed SharePoint Portal Server 2003, so I was quite disappointed when SharePoint version 3 was released without PowerShell support – after all, Exchange 2007 managed it and it’s part of the Office 2007 Server suite, so why didn’t the other server products?

On a positive note though, I did find that stsadm.exe had been extended to now support a lot more operations:

[C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN]
3> .\stsadm.exe –help

Usage:
stsadm.exe -o <operation> [<parameters>]
stsadm.exe -help [<operation>]

Operations:


activatefeature
addalternatedomain
addcontentdb
addpath
addpermissionpolicy
addsolution
addtemplate
adduser
addwppack
addzoneurl
authentication
backup
backuphistory
binddrservice
blockedfilelist
canceldeployment
changepermissionpolicy
copyappbincontent
createadminvs
creategroup
createsite
createsiteinnewdb
createweb
databaserepair
deactivatefeature
deleteadminvs
deletealternatedomain
deleteconfigdb
deletecontentdb
deletegroup
deletepath
deletepermissionpolicy
deletesite
deletesolution
deletetemplate
deleteuser
deleteweb
deletewppack
deletezoneurl
deploysolution
deploywppack
disablessc
displaysolution
email
enablessc
enumalternatedomains
enumcontentdbs
enumdeployments
enumgroups
enumroles
enumservices
enumsites
enumsolutions
enumsubwebs
enumtemplates
enumusers
enumwppacks
enumzoneurls
execadmsvcjobs
export
extendvs
extendvsinwebfarm
forcedeletelist
getadminport
getproperty
getsitelock
geturlzone
import
installfeature
listlogginglevels
localupgradestatus
managepermissionpolicylevel
migrateuser
provisionservice
refreshdms
refreshsitedms
registerwsswriter
removedrservice
removesolutiondeploymentlock
renameserver
renameweb
restore
retractsolution
retractwppack
scanforfeatures
setadminport
setapppassword
setconfigdb
setlogginglevel
setproperty
setsitelock
setworkflowconfig
siteowner
spsearch
spsearchdiacriticsensitive
syncsolution
unextendvs
uninstallfeature
unregisterwsswriter
updateaccountpassword
updatealerttemplates
updatefarmcredentials
upgrade
upgradesolution
upgradetargetwebapplication
userrole

For information about other operations and parameters,
use “stsadm.exe -help” or “stsadm.exe -help <operation>”

But how useful are these commands? Consider the example of enumsites – this command lists all Site Collections or a given Web Application.


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