Environment: SharePoint 2010 

Powershell cmdlets have been become so popular for Administrators and Developers in the SharePoint 2010 world to automate your process and update the existing current SharePoint environments. You can use the same SharePoint object model and can do a lot of work using Powershell scripts without using Visual Studio. In this post, i am trying to give some most common examples/scenarios for those who are new in PowerShell to give an idea how cool and helpful this tool is in the SharePoint 2010.

Examples:

For Help:

Use Get-Help verb with the available cmdlets i.e.





For Site collections/Sites:

  For Lists or Document library:

If you have any comments or questions, please drop a line.

Happy Powershell scripting!