Wednesday 4 December 2013

Create and Restore Site Collection along with Unique Content database and managed paths in Sharepoint using Powershell

Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell –ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
$ErrorActionPreference = "Continue";

#Get input from user

$webapp = Read-Host "Enter WebApplication Name";
$site = Read-Host "Enter site Name";

#create managed paths

New-SPManagedPath $site -WebApplication "http://$webapp" -Explicit

Write-Host "Site Collection $site  has been created successfully"  -ForegroundColor Yellow


#Get input from user

$dbname = Read-Host "Enter Content Database Name";
$owner1 = Read-Host "Enter Content PrimaryOwner Name";
$owner2 = Read-Host "Enter Content SecondaryOwner Name";

#Default values

$server = "MY_CONTENT_DB_ALIAS";

#Create content db

Write-Host "Creating Content DB"
New-SPContentDatabase -Name $dbname  -WebApplication http://$webapp/ | out-null
Write-Host "Content DB Created Sucessfully"

Write-Host "Site Collection http://$webapp/$site"

#Create the site collection

Write-Host "Creating Site Collection $site"
New-SPSite -URL http://$webapp/$site -OwnerAlias $owner1 -SecondaryOwnerAlias $owner2 -ContentDatabase $dbname | out-null
Write-Host "Site Collection $site Created Sucessfully"

#Set the content db so it will only contain 1 site collection

Get-SPContentDatabase -Site http://$webapp/$site | Set-SPContentDatabase -MaxSiteCount 1 -WarningSiteCount 0
Write-Host "Set Content DB to only contain 1 Site Collection"


Write-Host "Site Collection at" $site "has been created in the" $dbname "content database" -ForegroundColor Yellow

#Restore sitecollection

Restore-SPSite http://$webapp/$site -Path C:\test.bak -Force

Write-Host "$site Site restored successfully"-ForegroundColor Red

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