I’m not sure if anyone else would ever need this, but I had a need to get all of the SharePoint 2010 PowerShell Cmdlets as well as the Help synopsis. I wanted to create a list of all of the Cmdlets as well as their help synopsis for a “Cmdlet of the Day” list.
In case anyone else ever wants to do this, it’s very simple and I thought I would share my helper function.
It literally just uses Get-Command to retrieve all Cmdlets within the Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell snapin, and then it uses the ForEach-Object Cmdlet to run Get-Help against each Cmdlet while using Select-Object to retrieve the Name and Synopsis.
This could easily be modified to retrieve other properties. Oh, and it should completely support being passed via the pipeline into any of the Format-* or Export-* cmdlets. I’ve used it to export to CSV for easy importing into an SP List.
Anyhow, here is the function!
function Get-SPCmdlets {
$Module = "Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell"
$Commands = Get-Command -Module $Module
$Commands | ForEach-Object {Get-Help $_ | Select-Object Name, Synopsis}
}
And the result is something like this:
| Name | Synopsis |
| Add-SPClaimTypeMapping | Adds a claim mapping to a trusted security token service (STS) identity provider. |
| Add-SPDiagnosticsPerformanceCounter | Adds a new instance of a performance counter to a Web front end computer or a database server. |
| Add-SPInfoPathUserAgent | Adds a user agent to a farm. |
| Add-SPPluggableSecurityTrimmer | Add-SPPluggableSecurityTrimmer [-UserProfileApplicationProxyId] <Guid> -PlugInId <Int32> [-QualifiedTypeName <String>] [-CustomProperties <NameValueCollection>] [-AssignmentCollection <SPAssignmentCollection>] [-Verbose] [-Debug] [-ErrorAction <ActionPreference>] [-WarningAction <ActionPreference>] [-ErrorVariable <String>] [-WarningVariable <String>] [-OutVariable <String>] [-OutBuffer <Int32>] [-WhatIf] [-Confirm] |
| Add-SPProfileLeader | Add-SPProfileLeader [-ProfileServiceApplicationProxy] <SPServiceApplicationProxyPipeBind> [-Name] <SPProfileLeaderPipeBind> [-SiteSubscription <SPSiteSubscriptionPipeBind>] [-AssignmentCollection <SPAssignmentCollection>] [-Verbose] [-Debug] [-ErrorAction <ActionPreference>] [-WarningAction <ActionPreference>] [-ErrorVariable <String>] [-WarningVariable <String>] [-OutVariable <String>] [-OutBuffer <Int32>] [-WhatIf] [-Confirm] |
| Add-SPProfileSyncConnection | Add-SPProfileSyncConnection [-ProfileServiceApplication] <SPServiceApplicationPipeBind> -ConnectionForestName <String> -ConnectionDomain <String> -ConnectionUserName <String> -ConnectionPassword <SecureString> [-ConnectionServerName <String>] [-ConnectionPort <Int32>] [-ConnectionUseSSL] [-ConnectionNamingContext <String>] -ConnectionSynchronizationOU <String> [-ConnectionClaimProviderTypeValue <String>] [-ConnectionClaimProviderIdValue <String>] [-ConnectionClaimIDMapAttribute <String>] [-AssignmentCollection <SPAssignmentCollection>] [-Verbose] [-Debug] [-ErrorAction <ActionPreference>] [-WarningAction <ActionPreference>] [-ErrorVariable <String>] [-WarningVariable <String>] [-OutVariable <String>] [-OutBuffer <Int32>] [-WhatIf] [-Confirm] |
| Add-SPServiceApplicationProxyGroupMember | Adds a member to the service application proxy group. |
| Add-SPShellAdmin | Adds a user to the SharePoint_Shell_Access role for the specified database. |
| Add-SPSiteSubscriptionFeaturePackMember | Adds a feature to a SharePoint Feature set. |
| Add-SPSiteSubscriptionProfileConfig | Adds a new site subscription to a User Profile Service application. |
| Add-SPSolution | Uploads a SharePoint solution package to the farm. |
| Add-SPUserSolution | Uploads a new sandboxed solution to the solution gallery. |
| Backup-SPConfigurationDatabase | Performs a farm-level configuration-only backup. |
| Backup-SPFarm | Creates a backup of an individual database, Web application, or the entire farm. |
| Backup-SPSite | Performs a backup of a site collection. |
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