Managing SharePoint 2016 with PowerShell
by Liam Cleary
PowerShell is a great scripting tool which can help in the management of applications and services efficiently. Using SharePoint PowerShell, you can create repeatable scripts that can make repetitive and complex tasks easier to manage and control.
What you'll learn
As a SharePoint Administrator, you are always asked to make changes, update permissions, setup web applications, site collections and sites, and somehow make sure everything works all the time. Natively SharePoint has an excellent Administration interface, known as Central Administration that can be used. However, PowerShell scripting can assist with the management to create repeatable scripts that can be run as needed giving you more power and control over managing your SharePoint Farm. In this course, Managing SharePoint 2016 with PowerShell, you will learn foundational knowledge to create PowerShell scripts. First, you will learn SharePoint PowerShell basic. Next, you will discover how to manage SharePoint Users, Sites, and Services easily with PowerShell. Finally, you will explore how to backup, restore, and troubleshoot SharePoint using PowerShell. When you’re finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge of PowerShell for SharePoint needed to support and manage SharePoint with PowerShell effectively.
About the author
Liam began his career as a trainer of all things computer-related. He quickly realized that programming, breaking, and hacking were much more fun. Liam spent the next few years working within core infrastructure and security services. He is the founder and owner of SharePlicity, a consulting company that focuses on Microsoft 365 and Azure technology. His role within SharePlicity is to help organizations implement Microsoft 365 and Azure technology to enhance internal and external collaboration, ... moredocument and records management, automate business processes, and implement security controls and protection. He is a Microsoft MVP and Microsoft Certified Trainer, focusing on architecture, security, and crossing the boundary into software development. Over the past few years, his specialty has been security in Microsoft 365, Azure, and its surrounding platforms. Liam also creates online training courses for Pluralsight, LinkedIn Learning, and Cloud Academy and teaches multiple Microsoft certification courses for Opsgility and Microsoft. You can find him at user groups and conferences, teaching classes, offering advice, spending time in the community, teaching his kids how to code, raspberry PI programming, hacking the planet, building Lego robots, or coaching soccer. You may also find him running races in the dark, hiking, or mountain biking at break-neck speeds.