This is time to manage SharePoint Server Farms using PowerShell and to say goodbye to STSADM. SharePoint Administrators are learning PowerShell and are writing scripts for their environments. Here is a script for Creating Web Application, Site Collection and multiple sub sites in one go.
1. Create a .ps1 file and add reference for PowerShell and SharePoint Assemblies.
Add-PsSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell
[void][System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName(“Microsoft.SharePoint”)
2. Set variables and create Web Application.
#Create Web Application
Write-Output " "
Write-Output "Creating Web Application for Intranet Portal."
$AppName = "Intranet Portall"
$AppPool = "IntranetPortalApplicationPool"
$UserAccount = "winsmarts\sp_admin"
$Port = 80
$DBServer = "SPDEV\SQL_SERVER"
$DBName = "IntranetPortalDatabase_80"
New-SPWebApplication -Name $AppName -Port $Port -ApplicationPool $AppPool
-ApplicationPoolAccount (Get-SPManagedAccount $UserAccount) -databaseserver $DBServer -databasename $DBName
Write-Output " "
Write-Output "Web Application Created Successfully."
3. Create Site Collection.
Write-Output " "
Write-Output "Creating Top Site Collection"
# Set variables
$SiteCollectionName = "Test Portal"
$SiteCollectionURL = "http://SPDEV:80"
$SiteCollectionTemplate = "STS#0"
$SiteCollectionLanguage = 1033
$SiteCollectionOwner = "winsmarts\Administrator"
# Create a new Sharepoint Site Collection
New-SPSite -URL $SiteCollectionURL -OwnerAlias $SiteCollectionOwner -Language $SiteCollectionLanguage
-Template $SiteCollectionTemplate -Name $SiteCollectionName
Write-Output " "
Write-Output "Top Site Collection created successfully."
4. Create sub sites.
#Creating Sub Sites in top site collection.
Write-Output " "
Write-Output "Creating Sub Sites"
$SubSites = @("Central Services", "Knowledge Base", "Service Center", "IT", "HR", "Finance")
for($i=0 ; $i -lt $SubSites.count ; $i++)
{
clear-variable -name siteurl
$SiteUrl = $SiteCollectionURL += "/"
$SiteUrl = $SiteUrl += $SubSites[$i]
Write-Output " "
#Write-Output "Creating Site for " += $SubSites[$i]
Write-Output " "
New-SPWeb $SiteUrl -Template $SiteCollectionTemplate -Name $SubSites[$i] -UseParentTopNav
-Language $SiteCollectionLanguage
Write-Output " "
#Write-Output "Site Created for " += $SubSites[$i]
Write-Output " "
}
