Continuing my quest to explore how PowerShell can help SharePoint developers and administrators, this time I’ll take a look at a fairly uncommon scenario: inspecting and modifying a live SharePoint instance.

The case I was working on involved a known problematic scenario: a subweb converted into a site collection. The site collection was one where the users could…

In my previous entry on SharePoint and PowerShell I promised I’d show you how to implement custom commandlets for Master Page manipulation. SharePoint 2010 ships with a wide array of commandlets, but none of them seem applicable here. This should also serve as a nice generic example on how to implement simple commandlets.

In order to…

Recently I found myself in a phase of development, where I would try out some modifications to content types, notice that they weren’t what I wanted, and then re-do the entire web application from scratch to make sure my next modifications would be picked up by SharePoint. As you can probably imagine, doing that via the administrative interface got old quickly, so I decided I’d do my best to automate the process.