Basic Operations In SharePoint 2013 Using PowerShell

Introduction

This article provides guidance on how to use Microsoft Windows PowerShell commands to create a Microsoft SharePoint 2010/ SharePoint 2013 basic operations and it will be useful for SharePoint developers and admins.

This article will include the basic Create, Read, Update and Delete operations, using SharePoint 2013 sites.

PowerShell

PowerShell is a tool available in Microsoft to run/execute the cmdlets/.exe files to perform some operations.

MSDN says,”

Windows PowerShell™ command-line interface is a new command-line tool and supporting scripting language from Microsoft that complements Cmd.exe in the Windows administration context. In the SharePoint administration context, Windows PowerShell supersedes the Stsadm.exe administration tool. Moving forward, you should use Windows PowerShell scripting technology to develop any new command-line scripts in SharePoint Foundation 2010.

Ref

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ee539977(v=office.14).aspx

Before going to the article, we first need to know what is PowerShell, how the commands can use it and basic syntax; we should know it.

Learn about basic Windows PowerShell cmdlets, concepts and how to use Windows PowerShell with SharePoint 2013.

Ref

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee806878.aspx#sectionExPol

PowerShell/SharePoint Management Shell:

SharePoint Management Shell is available in your machine after you installed SharePoint2013.

Open SharePoint Management Shell

A site collection is a grouping/collection of the Websites under a common top-level

After you create a site collection, a top-level site is automatically created in the site collection. You can then create one or more sub sites under the top-level site in SharePoint2013.

Before we use this SharePoint Management Shell, the admin should be a user of Shell access db_owner.

For this, we have to use this command to add the user to the admin role.

Syntax

Add-SPShellAdmin [-UserName] <String> [-AssignmentCollection <SPAssignmentCollection>] [-Confirm [<SwitchParameter>]] [-database <SPDatabasePipeBind>] [-WhatIf [<SwitchParameter>]]

When you run this cmdlet to add a user to the SharePoint_Shell_Access role,

Example

Add-SPShellAdmin -UserName spdev\gowtham

Create a site collection in SharePoint 2013

• Open your SharePoint Management Shell in your system.
• Copy the code given below.
• Run it.

Get-SPWebTemplate$template = Get-SPWebTemplate "STS#0"

New-SPSite -Url https://gowtham.sharepoint.com -OwnerAlias spdev\gowtham" -Template $template. Here, we used Team site Template "STS#0"

List of SharePoint 2013 Template sites

Here, the codes are given below, which are to be used in SharePoint site creation and use this template ID, which is based on your requirement.