Finding the SharePoint 2010 cmdlets

Niklas Goude
-Expert in Residence

SharePoint 2010 offers over 500 cmdlets that you can use to automate the SharePoint 2010 environment. But how do you find the cmdlets available? Get-Command is the answer and the cmdlet offers a couple of really nice features you can use to gather information regarding the SharePoint 2010 cmdlets.

To find all SharePoint 2010 cmdlets available use the –noun parameter:

To find specific SharePoint 2010 cmdlets such as cmdlets handling SPSite or SPWeb, use this:

The command above returns all cmdlets where the noun contains SPWeb followed by any character, if you only want to retrieve the SPWeb cmdlets you can type:

To find out what a specific cmdlet really “is” and how PowerShell interprets it, you can use:

You can see all of the information Get-Command returns for any given command by piping the result to Format-List and use a star ("*") to make all properties visible:

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