SharePoint PowerShell

Update 10/25/2017: This article originally appeared on ITUnity.com but as that site has been decommissioned I’ve republished it here. In the previous article, Working with Lists and List Items Using the SharePoint REST Service and Windows PowerShell, I showed the PowerShell equivalents to the examples in the Working with lists and list items with REST MSDN article.

Update 10/25/2017: The ITUnity.com site no longer exists and as such my articles and author profile aren’t there any more. I’ve reposted the articles on my own blog and updated the links below to point to them instead of ITUnity.

Update 10/25/2017: This article originally appeared on ITUnity.com but as that site has been decommissioned I’ve republished it here. In the previous article, Using a Custom Windows PowerShell Function to Make SharePoint REST Service Calls, I detailed a custom utility function, Invoke-SPORestMethod, that can be used to make RESTful calls against a SharePoint REST Service endpoint.

Update 10/25/2017: This article originally appeared on ITUnity.com but as that site has been decommissioned I’ve republished it here. In the article, Using the SharePoint REST Service with Windows PowerShell, I detailed how to use Windows PowerShell to make simple RESTful calls against your SharePoint Online Site Collection.

Update 10/25/2017: This article originally appeared on ITUnity.com but as that site has been decommissioned I’ve republished it here. In a previous article, Connecting to SharePoint Online using the SharePoint CSOM API with Windows PowerShell and the related CSOM articles that followed it, I discussed how you can use Windows PowerShell to inspect and manage SharePoint Online Site Collections, Sites, Lists and List Items using the managed .

Update 10/25/2017: This article originally appeared on ITUnity.com but as that site has been decommissioned I’ve republished it here. As you start working with and exploring the CSOM API with Windows PowerShell, you’re likely to be doing some searches looking for examples of how to use it.

Update 10/25/2017: This article originally appeared on ITUnity.com but as that site has been decommissioned I’ve republished it here. In the article, Using the SharePoint CSOM API with SharePoint Online and Windows PowerShell, I explained that when you call the ClientContext object’s Load method that only a subset of properties are typically loaded, usually most of the simple types, and that you’ll need to make another call to the Load method to get additional properties.

Update 10/25/2017: This article originally appeared on ITUnity.com but as that site has been decommissioned I’ve republished it here. In the Connecting to SharePoint Online using the SharePoint CSOM API with Windows PowerShell article you learned how to get started using the SharePoint CSOM API to connect to your SharePoint Online Site Collection with Windows PowerShell.

Update 10/25/2017: This article originally appeared on ITUnity.com but as that site has been decommissioned I’ve republished it here. As a developer working with earlier versions of SharePoint, specifically SharePoint 2007 and earlier, your options for working with SharePoint from off-server client applications was pretty limited.

Update 10/25/2017: This article originally appeared on ITUnity.com but as that site has been decommissioned I’ve republished it here. With Office 365 now on SharePoint 2013, we finally have the long-awaited, and long-overdue support for using Windows PowerShell to manage SharePoint Online environments.