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

Manage Sites

Now that you have the ability to create Site Collections and your root-level Site via Windows PowerShell, it is time to turn our focus to Sites. Sites are where the end user spends their time in SharePoint. In many organizations, the creation of sub-Sites really falls onto the Site owners and is not in the hands of the administrators. However, there are often times when an administrator needs to create or otherwise manipulate Sites on behalf of end users. To facilitate this, there are a number of cmdlets available for working with Sites; these cmdlets include New-SPWeb, Get-SPWeb, Set-SPWeb, Remove-SPWeb, Export-SPWeb, and Import-SPWeb. (We cover exporting and importing Sites in Chapter 17 and, as such, will not review the export ...