55095: SharePoint 2010 and 2013 Auditing and Site Content Administration using PowerShell Training

This module provides an introduction to the topics covered in the class, introduces SharePoint PowerShell terminology and provides a review of important PowerShell features.

• History of PowerShell in SharePoint
• PowerShell vs. Search
• PowerShell, SharePoint Management Shell and cmdlets
• Security and Permissions Needed
• Getting Started with PowerShell: Counting Items, Custom Columns, Reformatting Numbers, Saving Results to a File
• Changing and Updating Content: Creating SharePoint Objects, Changing Objects

Lab: SharePoint and PowerShell

• Using PowerShell with SharePoint

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Get started using PowerShell to inventory and update SharePoint.

This module introduces the SharePoint object model and some important terminology.

• GUIDs
• Sites vs. Webs
• The SharePoint Object Hierarchy

Lab: Working with SharePoint CMDLETs and Objects

• Get a list of all Site Collections and their GUIDs
• Get a list of all Webs in all Site Collections

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Explore sites and webs using PowerShell.
• Retrieve important properties of common SharePoint objects

This module explores limiting impact on server memory usage and performance.

• Memory Management and Disposing Objects
• Limiting Impact on Production Servers

Lab: Managing Memory and Limiting Performance Impact

• Testing the impact of scripts on server performance

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Recognize and manage the impact of PowerShell on a SharePoint server.

This module explores SharePoint using PowerShell from the Farm down to individual list items.

• Getting Farm Information: version, services, services, features
• Getting Web Application information
• Exploring Site Collections: retrieve Site Collections, Site Collection Administrators, quotas
• Working with the Recycle Bins: finding items, getting file counts and bytes, deleted sites
• Exploring Webs: web templates, finding webs, finding webs based on template, Quick Launch and Top Link Bar navigation
• Exploring Lists and Libraries: finding all lists, lists by type, lists by Content Type, columns/fields, document count by web or library
• Exploring Content Types
• Deleting content
• Downloading and uploading files

Lab: Working with Content

• Explore the farm.
• Inventory site collections.
• Create a recycle bin report.
• Finding all blog sites.
• Find all picture libraries.
• Find all PDF files over 5 MB.
• Delete all videos in a site collection.

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Explorer, inventory and maintain SharePoint content using PowerShell.

This module covers the use of PowerShell to explore and document SharePoint permissions.

• Users: find a user, get a list of all users, working with Active Directory groups
• SharePoint groups: Get lists of groups, get the members of a group, find all groups a user belongs to, find the groups associated with a web
• Expanding users lists that include Active Directory groups
• Documenting Broken Inheritance / Unique Permissions: webs, lists, libraries, folders, items
• Working with Role Assignments

Lab: Users and Security

• Get a list of all users who have access to a Site Collection.
• Get a list of all groups in a Site Collection.
• Get a list of all groups a user belongs to.
• List all users who may have access to a SharePoint securable.
• Get a list of all securable with broken inheritance.

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Explore and document users and user permissions.
• Explore and document SharePoint groups.
• Explore and document broken inheritance.

This module explorers Site Collection and Web management from PowerShell.

• Finding Inactive Webs
• Creating and Deleting Site Collections
• Getting Site Collection Data
• Creating and Deleting Subsites
• Working With SharePoint Designer Settings

Lab: Managing Sites

• Create a report for inactive sites.
• Create a site collection and subsites.
• Delete a site.
• Delete a site collection.
• Disable SharePoint Designer in all site collections.

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Manage SharePoint Site Collections and webs from PowerShell.