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

Deploy and Manage Features

SharePoint 2010 offers a number of cmdlets to help deploy and manage Features. However, before we examine those cmdlets, it will be helpful to understand exactly what a Feature is and how Features work within SharePoint. To help gain this understanding, we will examine the Team Collaboration Lists Feature.

Visit one of your favorite SharePoint Sites that are provisioned using the Team Site template (STS#0). Click Site Actions View All Site Content Create. This will bring up a modal dialog box that allows you to create ...