Bye Bye stsadm hello PowerShell

Stsadm was one of the primary tools available for deployment operations in MOSS 2007. However, We all have been through a lot of scenarios that stsadm simply did not cover.

The resolution to this was to write a piece of code or develop a custom stsadm extension and deploy it to accomplishing a simple task

SharePoint 2010 has moved to PowerShell which means that you know have full access to the SharePoint API from the command line.

For example : Suppose I want to get a list of features for a specific site collection, we can simply type the following from the PowerShell prompt

$s = Get-SPSite http://siteurl

S$.Features | out-gridview

We would get the list of features in a grid view with filtering & sorting options.

Find a list of all the SharePoint 2010 PowerShell cmdlets reference here

http://dmitrysotnikov.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/sharepoint-2010-cmdlet-reference/

and the Help file for PowerShell here

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=045F7AF5-B226-4A05-8ACE-4E17CFDEF856&displaylang=en&displaylang=en

Microsoft claim to introduce around 1000 build in cmdlets :)

You can use PowerShell with the MOSS 2007 object model and its web services. More on that here

http://www.u2u.info/Blogs/karine/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=9