Adding and Deploying Solutions with PowerShell in SharePoint 2010
Visual Studio 2010 makes it really easy to add and deploy solutions
when you are developing (the F5 experience), but you may eventually want to deploy those
solution packages elsewhere then on your development machine. We can still use the stsadm tool, but that
is effectively considered deprecated now in favor of PowerShell.
To get started with PowerShell, run the SharePoint 2010 Management
Console located in your Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products folder on
your start menu. This automatically loads the
Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell snappin so that we can execute
SharePoint commands.
[code:xml]
Add-SPSolution c:\codefolder\SharePointSolution.wsp
Install-SPSolution –Identity SharePointSolution.wsp –WebApplication http://yoursharepointurl -GACDeployment
Update-SPSolution –Identity SharePointSolution.wsp –LiteralPath c:\codefolder\SharePointSolution.wsp –GACDeployment
Uninstall-SPSolution –Identity SharePointSolution.wsp –WebApplication http://yoursharepointurl
Remove-SPSolution –Identity SharePointSolution.wsp
Also cool is getting your SharePoint version by using Powershell
function global:Get-SPFarm
{
return [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPFarm]::Local
}
$farm = Get-SPFarm
$farm.BuildVersion
The result looks like
Major Minor Build Revision
----- ----- ----- --------
14 0 4536 1000