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Managing site Collections in SharePoint 2010 using cmdlets

In SharePoint 2010 you can manage site collections through Windows PowerShell. You can create new site collections using the New-SPSite cmdlet:

New-SPSite http://SP –OwnerAlias “ds\admmoss” `
-Template “STS#0”

You can retrieve an existing site using the Get-SPSite cmdlet:

Get-SPSite http://SP

You can configure a site collection through the Set-SPWeb cmdlet:

Get-SPSite http://SP | Set-SPSite -SecondaryOwnerAlias “ds\kumar”

And finally, you can remove a site collection using the Remove-SPSite cmdlet:

Remove-SPWeb http://SP -Confirm:$false

Setting the –Confirm switch parameter to $false omits the confirmation returned from PowerShell. If you want to see what happens if you remove a site collection but don’t want to actually remove the site collection you can use the –WhatIf switch parameter.

Remove-SPWeb http://SP –WhatIf

The Cmdlet

New-SPSite [-Url] -OwnerAlias [-AdministrationSiteType ] [-AssignmentCollection ] [-Confirm []] [-ContentDatabase ] [-Description ][-HostHeaderWebApplication ] [-Language ] [-Name ] [-OwnerEmail ] [-QuotaTemplate ] [-SecondaryEmail ] [-SecondaryOwnerAlias ] [-SiteSubscription ] [-Template ] [-WhatIf []] []

The Script

$siteURL = “http://prod.moss.com”

$owner = “ds\admmoss”

$secondOwner = “ds\kumar”

$template = “STS#0″

$description = “This is a sample site that was built using PowerShell.”

New-SPSite $siteURL -OwnerAlias $owner -SecondaryOwnerAlias $secondOwner -name “PowerShell for SharePoint” -Template $template-Description $description
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