SharePoint Powershell Developers Usefull Commands Cheat Sheet

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SharePoint powershell usefull commands for developers

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List the powershell commands	Get-Command
Restart IIS Services	iisreset
Reference SharePoint Component	Add-PSSnapin "Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell"
Returns the names of all users who have the SharePoint_Shell_Access role	Get-SPShellAdmin
Adds a user to the SharePoint_Shell_Access role for the specified database	Add-SPShellAdmin {User account name}
Get the local sharepoint farm	Get-SPFarm
List the web applications	Get-SPWebApplication
List the site collections	Get-SPSite
List the site of a site collection	Get-SPWeb -Site {url of the site}
Removes a user from the SharePoint_Shell_Access role	Remove-SPShellAdmin -Username {Account name}
List the content databases	Get-SpDatabase

IISRESET is a command line utility that you can use in powershell but in command prompt also, this can be usefull in some cases for developers.

Imports an app package	Import-SPAppPackage -Path {Path to .spapp file} -Site {Site collection url} -Source {Source of the app}
Installs an instance of an app	Install-SPApp -Web {Web url} -Identity {spapp object returned from import command}
Uninstalls an instance of an app	Uninstall-SPAppInstance -Identity {spapp object returned from get-spappinstance command}
Updates the app instance	Update-SPAppInstance -Identity $instance -App $spapp

For import app package command, here are the valid values for Source attribute:
- SharePoint Store
- App catalog
- SharePointService

List jobs of a web application	Get-SPTimerJob -WebApplication {Web application url}
Start a job	Start-SPTimerJob -Identity {Job GUID}

List the solution of farm solution store	Get-SPSolution
List the features of the farm	Get-SPFeature
Add a solution to farm solution store	Add-SPSolution -LiteralPath {Path to .wsp file}
Install farm solution to a web application	Install-SPSolution -Identity {.wsp file name and extension} -WebApplication {Web App Url} -GACDeployment;
Update farm solution to a web application	Update-SPSolution -Identity {wsp file name and extension} -LiteralPath {Full path of new .wsp file} -GACDeployment
Uninstall farm solution	Uninstall-SPSolution -Identity {wsp file name and extension} -WebApplication {web app url}
Remove farm solution from the store	Remove-SPSolution -Identity {wsp file name and extension}
Enable farm solution feature on a site	Enable-SPFeature -Identity {Feature Name or ID} -Url {Site url}
Disable farm solution feature on a site	Disable-SPFeature -Identity {Feature name or ID} -Url {Site url}
Installs a SharePoint Feature by using the Feature.xml file	Install-SPFeature -path {name of feature.xml store in hive}
Uninstalls an installed feature definition	Uninstall-SPFeature -Identity {Feature name}

These commands concern farm solution, for SharePoint Application commands please see next block.

List SharePoint Service Instances	Get-SPServiceInstance -Server {Server name}
Start instance of a SharePoint Service	Start-SPServiceInstance {Service GUID}
Stop instance of a SharePoint Service	Stop-SPServiceInstance {Service GUID}

List the event logs	Get-EventLog -List
Reads/queries ULS trace logs	Get-SPLogEvent
Retrieves Diagnostic Configuration values	Get-SPDiagnosticConfig
Allows setting Diagnostic Configuration values	Set-SPDiagnosticConfig
Returns IDiagnosticsLevel2 objects or displays a list of diagnostics levels	Get-SPLogLevel
Allows the user to set the trace and event level for a set of categories	Set-SPLogLevel
Resets the trace and event levels back to their default values	Clear-SPLogLevel
Ends the current log file and starts a new one	New-SPLogFile
Combines trace log files from all farm servers into a single file	Merge-SPLogFile

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