Five Fabulous Fantastic Function Filters Powerful PowerShell for SharePoint

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Darrin Bishop has useful and informational post on 5 different PowerShell Functions/Filters for SharePoint. quick, click here -

Five Simple But Powerful PowerShell Functions/Filters for SharePoint

The image from his site is worth the trip alone and then the filters map to the relationship nicely.

These functions can reveal a multitude of information about your implementation and are extremely helpful in teaching about PowerShell, SharePoint and Objects!

#Return an object that is the local SharePoint Farm

function Get-LocalFarm
{
   return [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPFarm]::Local
}

filter Get-WebService
{
   $webServices = new-object  Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebServiceCollection($_)
   $webServices
}

filter Get-WebApplication
{
   $_.WebApplications
}

filter Get-SiteCollection
{
   $_.Sites
}

filter Get-Web
{
   $_.AllWebs
}

 

 

I highly recommend that you take a visit to Darrin’s blog Five Simple But Powerful PowerShell Functions/Filters for SharePoint for a very easy to follow description of how useful this can be.

Clink! as in a good one to Darrin Bishop and PowerShell. Hey, don’t forget SharePoint!