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Site management cmdlets (SharePoint Server 2010)

SharePoint 2010

SharePoint 2013

Published: May 12, 2010

You can use Windows PowerShell cmdlets to manage sites in a Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 farm.

Cmdlet name	Description
Get-SPCustomLayoutsPage	Returns a mapping to a custom layout page.
Get-SPUser	Returns the user account or accounts that match a given search criteria.
Get-SPWeb	Returns all subsites that match the given criteria.
Get-SPWebApplication	Returns all Web applications that match the given criteria.
Get-SPFarm	Returns the local SharePoint farm.
Get-SPProduct	Returns a list of the SharePoint-related products installed in the farm and the versions of all updates installed for each product.
Get-SPServer	Returns the server or servers in the farm that match the given identity.
Get-SPDeletedSite	Gets a list of deleted site collections. This cmdlet was introduced in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 with Service Pack 1 (SP1).
Get-SPSite	Returns all site collections that match the given criteria.
Get-SPSiteAdministration	Returns a site administration object that farm administrators can use to view certain information about site collections to which they might not have access.
Get-SPSiteSubscription	Returns the site subscription for the given URL or all site subscriptions in the local farm.
Get-SPSiteSubscriptionConfig	Returns the configuration properties of a site subscription.
Move-SPSite	Moves site collections from one content database to another.
Move-SPUser	Migrates a user account in SharePoint 2010 Products.
New-SPSite	Creates a new site collection at the specified URL.
New-SPSiteSubscription	Creates a new site subscription.
New-SPUser	Adds an existing user to a SharePoint site with the designated permissions.
New-SPWeb	Creates a new site in an existing site collection.
New-SPWebApplication	Creates a new Web application within the local farm.
New-SPWebApplicationExtension	Creates a new zone instance for the Web application.
Remove-SPDeletedSite	Removes a deleted site collection. This cmdlet was introduced in SharePoint Server 2010 with SP1.
Remove-SPSite	Completely deletes an existing site collection and all subsites.
Remove-SPSiteSubscription	Removes data stored in a subscription settings service application for a set of site subscriptions.
Remove-SPSiteSubscriptionSettings	Removes the settings service data for a specified site subscription, or finds and removes orphaned data.
Remove-SPUser	Removes a user from a Web site.
Remove-SPWeb	Completely deletes the specified Web.
Remove-SPWebApplication	Deletes the specified Web application.
Rename-SPServer	Renames a server that is currently connected to the farm.
Restore-SPDeletedSite	Restores a deleted site collection. This cmdlet was introduced in SharePoint Server 2010 with SP1.
Set-SPSite	Configures the specified site collection.
Set-SPSiteAdministration	Allows farm administrators to configure any site collection.
Set-SPSiteSubscriptionConfig	Sets the configuration properties of a site subscription.
Set-SPSubscriptionSettingsServiceApplication	Sets properties of a subscription settings service application.
Set-SPUser	Configures properties on an existing user.
Set-SPWebApplication	Configures the specified Web application.
Set-SPWeb	Configures the specified subsite.
Export-SPSiteSubscriptionSettings	Creates a backup file of site subscription data.
Import-SPSiteSubscriptionSettings	Restores a backup of subscription site settings to the given subscription identifier.

Other Resources

Resource Center: Windows PowerShell for SharePoint Server 2010

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