Alpesh Nakar's Blog

At the time of writing this post day 4 of Bangalore Ignite had concluded and I had finished writing some PowerShell posts. These will go live in the days to come, when I will be on holidays with my family.

Earlier this week I had indicated on twitter, that Ignite training is not under NDA and it was great to share the information with everyone. Having said that I started taking notes and some intermittent tweets went out, however there was an information overload (for good) that I ended up with shorthand notes that I only can understand! I am hoping that I will remember these when I start compiling them and publish them early next year (given that this is the last month of the year and I am going to be on holidays).

I wasn’t planning on writing any of these PowerShell posts until next year, however Todd Klindt’s upgrade session really got me working on PowerShell scripts and since then I have been using some simple PowerShell scripts to do what you would normally do using stsadm or gui.

What we should note is that there are some tasks that you simply cannot do using Central Admin gui and you need to use PowerShell scripts to get them done. This will be obvious when I start publishing my notes from ignite.

If you are not familiar with PowerShell, now is the time to get started. SharePoint 2010 ships with an Administrator SharePoint 2010 Management Shell. From this shell you can do all the cool stuff pertaining to SharePoint!

I have extracted SharePoint cmdlets into an excel file for quick reference. Link at the bottom of the post.

I am going to be very honest, I have never worked in PowerShell and I strongly believe that now is the time to get started! So join me in the learning …  I hope that you will benefit from the short posts that will be published in days to come. If you are a PowerShell expert and if you have suggestions for me, I am all ears!

Excel File for SharePoint PowerShell

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Safe Travels, God Bless.