Automating Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010 Administration with Windows PowerShell® 2.0

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

Part 1 Getting Started With Windows Powershell Basics

Chapter 1 Windows PowerShell 101

Prepare for Your Journey

Automate SharePoint: A Historical Perspective

From STSADM to Windows PowerShell

Understand the Components

The SharePoint 2010 Management Shell

Understand Required Permissions

Windows PowerShell: An Object-Based Scripting Language

Discover Cmdlets and Objects

Understand Variables and Types

Declare and Use Variables

Understand Object Types

Declare and Use Arrays and Hash Tables

Work with Output

Understand the Object Pipeline and PipeBind Objects

Format Your Results

Chapter 2 Filtering and Iterating Your Data

Add Conditional Logic

Use Comparison and Logic Operators

Use the If/ElseIf/Else Statements

Use the ...