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SharePoint 2010 Administrator Ramp-Up - Part 3

by Ted Pattison

PowerShell - earn how to get started using Windows PowerShell to administer SharePoint 2010.

What you'll learn

This mini-course teaches how to get started using Windows PowerShell to administer SharePoint 2010. This courses begins by explaining Windows PowerShell from the ground up and you will learn how to execute PowerShell cmdlets from both the PowerShell console windows and from PowerShell scripts. The course shows how to write and debug PowerShell scripts using the Windows PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE). Most importantly, you will learn how to load the SharePoint PowerShell snap-in in a script so that you can call SharePoint cmdlets to automate tasks such as creating new site collections and backing up and restoring content.

About the author

Ted Pattison is an author, instructor and co-founder of Critical Path Training (http://www.criticalpathtraining.com/Instructors/Pages/TedPattison.aspx), a company dedicated to education on SharePoint technologies. For the last five years Ted has worked with Microsoft’s Developer Platform Evangelism group researching and authoring SharePoint training material for early adopters. Ted started working with SharePoint 2010 in August of 2008 and since that time has led a series of 5-day training class... more

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