As mentioned in my interview on the SharePoint PodShow - my PowerShell utility setup script

In the last interview I did with the Rob Foster on the SharePoint PodShow (#17), I mentioned a PowerShell script I use to prep my PowerShell command environment with stuff I need. Got a few hits on Twitter requesting this so here ya go.

Namely, it loads common SharePoint assemblies and sets an alias to STSADM. I got the idea from an old post on Karine Bosch’s blog (note, she has a new blog here).

Copy the contents of this file into a new text file and save it to a common place on your machine. I call mine LoadSPAssemblies.ps1 and put it into a SharePoint utility folder I have in Mesh (sync’d to all my dev machines… both physical and virtual):

set-executionpolicy unrestricted

[System.Reflection.Assembly]::Load("Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c")
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::Load("Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c")

new-alias "stsadm" ($env:CommonProgramFiles + "\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN\stsadm.exe")

Then, when I need to use it I just type the path to the PS1 file and it loads the assemblies and sets an alias to STSADM. Of course, your assemblies may differ… I just do a lot of work with the Publishing namespace. :)

[Updated 3/12/2009] Updated to no longer use the LoadWithPartialName and instead use the Load method. Thanks to the commenter below.

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posted on Thursday, February 26, 2009 3:19 PM

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# re: As mentioned in my interview on the SharePoint PodShow - my PowerShell utility setup script 2/27/2009 2:20 AM Eric Kraus

Hey AC,

You can also save the file to your $profile script and it will load each time you fire up PowerShell along with anything else useful. Can wrap in a function if you want to isolate.

Would love some collab on this project: http://www.codeplex.com/SPoshMod Wrapping up v1 any day now. Interested?

# re: As mentioned in my interview on the SharePoint PodShow - my PowerShell utility setup script 2/28/2009 11:21 AM AC [MVP MOSS]

Eric-
Nice! Thanks for sharing!

# re: As mentioned in my interview on the SharePoint PodShow - my PowerShell utility setup script 3/2/2009 4:20 PM rel

According to MSDN LoadWithPartialName is an obsolete method and to use Load instead:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/12xc5368.aspx

According to this, partial binding can have detrimental side effects

http://blogs.msdn.com/suzcook/archive/2003/05/30/57159.aspx

# re: As mentioned in my interview on the SharePoint PodShow - my PowerShell utility setup script 3/12/2009 10:47 PM AC [MVP MOSS]

Rel-
Didn't know that... just updated the blog post and my utility... thanks!

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