PowerShell for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administrators

CHAPTER 12Managing Sites

As discussed in the previous chapter, SharePoint 2010 offers some functionality to automatically delete site collections that are not confirmed to be in use. However, this is available only at the site collection level with the out-of-the box tools. But what if we want to have the same kind of functionality for sites?

Imagine that we have thousands of sites within a site collection (which is often the case when working with meeting workspaces, for example). We want to know which sites have not been used for the last 180 days, and send an e-mail message to the people responsible for those sites. For our solution, we will need to identify sites that have not been used within the time period, get the contact information ...