PowerShell for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administrators

CHAPTER 14Working with Sharepoint Lists

One of the most powerful features in SharePoint from an end-user perspective is the ease of creating and customizing lists with columns and views so that they suit their business needs. Managing lists, columns, and views is not usually a day-to-day task for SharePoint administrators, but occasionally, you may need to work with them. For instance, you might need to create or modify a large number of columns in different lists on different sites—creating a Windows PowerShell script that automates this task will save you hours of work.

In this chapter, we will look at several ways that Windows PowerShell can assist with list management. In our first scenario, we will create both out-of-the-box and custom ...