Tips for SharePoint 2013 PowerShell

As Administrator , he can perform most of administration jobs from UI but with SharePoint 2013 there are some changes required only PowerShell like Modify Search topology or Configure Request Management...

• Still you can use stsadm commands with SharePoint 2013
• To grant the users permission to run the commands grant them the following :
• Member of SharePoint Shell Access role
• Memeber of local security group (WSS_ADMIN_WPG)
• To get list of stsadm commands , run the following :

stsadm

• To get list of commands in SharePoint 2013 PowerShell , run the following :

Get-Command

• To get list of commands with filtering , run the following to get commands for SPWeb only:

Get-Command -Noun SPWeb

• To get list of commands start with , run the following :

Get-Command -Noun SPW*

• To get help about the command , run the following and you can pass -Examples or -Full or -Details for more information :

Get-Help Get-SPWeb

• To get the command object or objects wrap it with ()

(Get-SPSite http://sps2013).RootWeb.Lists | ForEach-Object {$_.Title}

• You can dispose SPWeb or SPSite using for example $site.Dispose() or can use like using keyword in C# (wrapping the whole script) with Start-SPAssignment -Global and Stop-SPAssignment -Global
• To Get Correlation ID from logs file , run the following :

Get-SPLogEvent | ?{$_.Correlation -eq "<ID>"}