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SP 2010 Site Collection PowerShell Script

Posted on by Jeremy in Development

The following script is what we’ve been using to create site collections with their own database in SharePoint 2010.

Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell –ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

## Configure the script
$databaseName = "SP_Content_Database_Name"
$webApplicationUrl = "http://localhost"
$siteCollectionUrl = "http://localhost/sites/siteName"
$siteCollectionName = "Site Collection Name"
$siteCollectionOwner1 = "DOMAIN\user1"
$siteCollectionOwner2 = "DOMAIN\user2"
$siteCollectionTemplate = "STS#1"

## Create the database
New-SPContentDatabase -Name $databaseName -WebApplication $webApplicationUrl

## Create the site collection
New-SPSite -URL $siteCollectionUrl -OwnerAlias $siteCollectionOwner1 -SecondaryOwnerAlias $siteCollectionOwner2 -ContentDatabase $databaseName -Name $siteCollectionName -Template $siteCollectionTemplate

Download the above code at: https://gist.github.com/4488619

If you need a list of site templates available on the machine you can run:

Get-SPWebTemplate | Sort-Object "Title"

VirtualBox UUID Change Script

Posted on by Jeremy in Personal Computing

UPDATE: Oracle has decided to change the command from setvdiuuid to sethduuid for version 4 of VirtualBox. Please make this correction if you are using version 4.

How many times do you simply copy a virtual hard drive when you want to stand up a development environment? In VirtualBox, it isn’t as simple as a simple copy, paste, and rename. Each virtual hard drive in the VirtualBox world (.vdi files) gets its own universally unique identifier, or UUID. When you copy a vdi file with your file explorer it also brings over the UUID. Fortunately, VirtualBox has a command to generate a new UUID for a copied vdi file.

%ProgramFiles%\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe internalcommands setvdiuuid

Being in the SharePoint development world, I create new virtual machines all the time so I created a script to take care of the UUID change. I have a batch file named changeUUID.bat that this script is contained.

@ECHO OFF
IF "%1"=="" GOTO Error
"c:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe" internalcommands setvdiuuid %1
GOTO Exit
:Error
ECHO No file path given!
:Exit
PAUSE

Gist Link: https://gist.github.com/knight0323/4488526

NOTE: VirtualBox does offer a command called clonevdi which will copy the vdi and ensure a new UUID is assigned to the clone. The setvdiuuid command is just a personal preference.