Beginning PowerShell for SharePoint 2013

Beginning PowerShell for SharePoint 2013 is a book for the SharePoint administrator looking to expand his or her toolkit and skills by learning PowerShell, Microsoft's vastly flexible and versatile object oriented scripting language. PowerShell is the future of Microsoft administration, and SharePoint is a complex product that can be managed more easily and quickly with PowerShell cmdlets and scripts. This book helps bridge the gap, introducing PowerShell fundamentals and operations in the context of deploying, migrating, managing, and monitoring SharePoint 2013.

Author Nik Charlebois-Laprade begins by explaining the fundamental concepts behind the PowerShell language. Then, with copious real-world examples and scripts, he lays the foundation for PowerShell novices to automate interactions with the various pieces and components of the SharePoint 2013 platform.

For SharePoint administrators wanting to do more with the technology, or for SharePoint developers trying to build their skills on the administration side, Beginning PowerShell for SharePoint 2013 is the perfect book to kick off your PowerShell journey.

• Takes you through the various PowerShell cmdlets available in SharePoint 2013
• Teaches you how to maintain your SharePoint farm using PowerShell
• Provides real-life examples on how to perform day–to-day operations on your SharePoint farm using SharePoint

What you’ll learn

• Manage on-premises and Office 365 SharePoint instances using PowerShell
• Write re-usable PowerShell scripts
• Understand the architecture of PowerShell
• Perform operations on a wide variety of SharePoint components using PowerShell
• Plan, prepare, and execute a SharePoint 2010 to 2013 migration using PowerShell
• Proactively monitor SharePoint farms for issues using PowerShell.

About the Author

Nikolas Charlebois-Laprade is an early adopter of anything worth a try, and he's always trying to think outside the box. He is a software engineer based in Gatineau, Québec, where he manages several technical project teams. An active blogger, Nik also speaks at several technology-focused conferences every year. Nik is also the owner of IgniteSoft, a startup that specializes in custom web deployment and cloud hosting.

Nik is a geek with people skills. He often is thought of as only being a SharePoint guy. However, as SharePoint is an integration technology forcing experts to learn an incredible variety of different web technologies, Nik prefers to think of himself as a software generalist. Always trying to innovate, his favorite quote is from George Bernard Shaw: "You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'" This quote summarizes Nik perfectly!