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SharePoint PowerShell - BackUps and Restore

SharePoint: PowerShell - BackUps and Restore Open Windows PowerShell using Run as admin PC> add-pssnapin Microsoft.sharepoint.powershell BackUp & Restore in SharePoint 2013 In SharePoint 2013, you can use Windows PowerShell functionality to perform a backup or restore process for the following items: Farm Site collection Configuration database Services List or document Farm BackUp Syntax: Backup-SPFarm -BackupMethod -Directory [-AssignmentCollection ] [-BackupThreads ] [-ConfigurationOnly ] [-Confirm [ ]] [-Force ] [-Item ] [-Percentage ] [-WhatIf [ ]] Another Syntax(This doesn’t backups actually, it shows the items to be backed up in this command): Backup-SPFarm -ShowTree [-AssignmentCollection ] [-ConfigurationOnly ] [-Confirm [ ]] [-Item ] [-WhatIf [ ]] Example: PS C:\Windows\system32> backup-spfarm -directory \\KSSHRPT01\FarmBackUp -backupmethod full PS C:\Windows\system32> backup-spfarm -directory \\KSSHRPT01\FarmBa

SharePoint PowerShell to Manage Term Store / Add Terms using PowerShell

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SharePoint PowerShell to Manage Term Store / Add Terms //get the term store $mysite = get-spsite “ http://yoursite:portnumber ” $taxonomySession = get-taxonomySession -site $mysite $termStore = $taxonomySession.TermStores[“Managed Metadata Service”] //now we will create the Term Store groups. Before we create any group we will check if the group already exists Example 1: if($termstore.groups["News Keys"] -eq $null) { $termstoregroup = $termstore.creategroup("News Keys");  $termstore.description = "News Group";  $termstore.addgroupmanager ("KS\spadmin"); $termstore.addcontributor ("ks\k.singh");$termStore.CommitAll();} This is not working as “ description ” is not an identified property. Example 2: if($termstore.groups["Main News Keys"] -eq $null) { echo "group is not there";  echo "group is there"; $termstoregroup = $termstore.creategroup("Main News Keys"); $terms