Techno-Babble

SharePoint Extension: Get-SPWebRelative

The main reason I began writing my PowerShell extensions was that I needed to do some in-depth traversal of the SharePoint farm and its content.  I’m going to demonstrate some of those extensions now, using 

Getting an SPWeb

The conventional way of obtaining a reference to an SPWeb is:

 get-spweb http://mybiglongservername:8080/path/to/web
 

Because this requires a fully-qualified URL, it gets when dealing with a lot of sites and webs.  Sometimes I’ll just throw the web in a variable, but that’s not exactly good practice because it can lead to memory leaks.  Instead, I wrote Get-SPWebRelative, which can be used like this:

 get-spwebrelative /path/to/web
 

You can even get the root web:

 get-spwebrelative /
 

Similarly, there is a Get-SPSiteRelative function that works the same way.

Tags: PowerShell, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, WF PowerShell