SharePoint PowerShell How To Series

Foreword

I often find myself scratching around the local drive of my development machines for remnants of PowerShell scripts to generate list & libraries in SharePoint with all sorts of different folder hierarchies to test the performance of code I’m working on to ensure it scales well once the folder & item counts start getting up to high numbers. So rather than keep scratching I’m going to start posting my scripts as I create and use them so I can find/reuse them later on and someone else might find them useful as well. I’m sure they won’t work under all scenarios and situations (and they are not designed to). They are just quick scripts that serve a specific purpose to me at the time and you may be able to tweak to fit your needs.

Overview/Getting Started

Getting Started: The Basics of Using PowerShell with SharePoint

Getting Started: What are .ps1 files and how do you use them?

 

‘How To’ Example PowerShell Scripts

Working with the GAC (Global Assembly Cache)

• How to find the Version, Culture and PublicKeyToken of an Assembly (DLL) using PowerShell
• How to install a DLL to the GAC on Windows Server 2012 using only PowerShell (without having to install SDK or Visual Studio)

 

Creating SharePoint List and Library Content

• SharePoint PowerShell How To: Create SharePoint List Items (in Root and in Folders) for Load/Performance Testing
• SharePoint PowerShell How To: Create SharePoint Test Documents in Library Folders for Load/Performance Testing
• SharePoint PowerShell How To: Create SharePoint Document Sets for Load/Performance Testing
• SharePoint PowerShell How To: Create SharePoint Library Folders for Load/Performance Testing
• How to import (upload) an entire folder of files to SharePoint using PowerShell

 

Useful References

Index of Windows PowerShell cmdlets for SharePoint 2013