Useful PowerShell scripts for SharePoint

While converting and merging some SharePoint sites, I created some PowerShell scripts to speed up the process.

In case I’ll ever need them again, I post them here:

Script 1: Mount a Content database using PowerShell

Mount-SPContentDatabase "MyDatabase" -DatabaseServer "MyServer" -WebApplication http://sitename

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Script 2: Generate a sub site using PowerShell

	$url = "http://tfssharepoint/sites/defaultcollection/mynewsite"
	$projectname = "mynewsite"
	New-SPWeb -url $url -Name $projectname -Template "Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Sharepoint.Dashboards#0"

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Script 3: Generate a Document Library using PowerShell

	function createDocumentLibrary ($webUrl, $libraryName)
	{
	# varable description
	$web = Get-SPWeb $webUrl
	$libraryDescription = ""
	$libraryTemplate = [Microsoft.SharePoint.SPListTemplateType]::DocumentLibrary;
	# Adding Library
	try
	{
	$web.Lists.Add($libraryName,$libraryDescription,$libraryTemplate);
	$web.Update();
	}
	catch
	{
	write-host "Error" $_.exception
	$errorlabel = $true
	}
	finally
	{
	if($web -ne $null)
	{
	$web.Dispose()
	}
	}
	}
	$webUrl = "http://tfssharepoint/sites/defaultcollection/mynewsite"
	$libraryName = "Shared Documents"
	createDocumentLibrary -webUrl $webUrl -libraryName $libraryName

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Script 4: Remove a site collection(without asking for confirmation) using PowerShell

	$url= "http://tfssharepoint/sites/defaultcollection/sitetoremove"
	Remove-SPSite $url -confirm:$false

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