Power Shell

Power Shell

Windows PowerShell is New Command line Shell mainly designed for System Administrators. In the SharePoint Context PowerShell are supersedes for the STSADM commands.

Major Difference between STSADM commands and Power Shell is that, STSADM commands accepts text input and returns text output. But Power Shell are built on Microsoft .Net Framework which accepts frameworks objects as input and returns framework objects as output.

Power Shell cmdlet`s are nothing but build in commands which are written in C# or VB.
The following cmdlets are available for SharePoint Server 2010:

• Access Services
• Backup and recovery
• Databases
• Enterprise content management
• Excel Services
• Features and solutions
• General
• Import and export
• InfoPath Services
• Logging and events
• Performance
• PerformancePoint Services
• Search
• Secure Store Service
• Security
• Service application
• SharePoint Foundation 2010 Search
• Site management
• State service and session state
• Timer jobs
• Upgrade and migration
• User Profile Service
• Visio Graphics Services
• Web Analytics
• Word Services
• Workflow management