Managing your Aurea Social installation with PowerShell

Windows PowerShell is a command-line scripting shell that provides administrators the ability to perform administrative operations using specialized commands called Cmdlets.

The Cmdlets provided by the Microsoft SharePoint Management Shell is the preferred, and sometimes the only, method for performing certain administrative tasks for SharePoint.

Installation and configuration of Aurea Social may also be accomplished with PowerShell Cmdlets in the Aurea Social Management Shell.

The following Cmdlets are available in the management shell.

• Install-SocialSites: Performs a new installation of Aurea Social.
• Update-SocialSites: Performs an upgrade of an existing installation of Aurea Social.
• Uninstall-SocialSites: Performs an uninstall of an existing installation of Aurea Social.
• Get-SocialSitesActivityTypes: Gets a list of SharePoint Activity Types installed to the SharePoint farm.
• Disable-SocialSitesFeatures: Disables Aurea Social SharePoint features.
• Update-SocialSitesFeatures: Ensures each Aurea Social SharePoint feature activated is up-to-date with the currently installed feature definition.
• Initialize-SocialSitesFeatures: Re-activates the Aurea Social SharePoint farm features for the Video, Enrich, and Innovation modules.
• Remove-SocialSitesOrphanedFeatures: Removes old features from previous versions of Aurea Social (formerly called “Social Sites”), primarily for the Video module.
• Disable-SocialSitesJobs: Disables all Aurea Social timer jobs.
• Enable-SocialSitesJobs: Enables all disabled Aurea Social timer jobs.
• Start-SocialSitesAdminJobs: Manually executes the SharePoint Administration jobs.
• Restart-SocialSitesTimerService: Executes the SharePoint Timer Service recycle job.
• Disable-SocialSitesUserProfileJob: Disables the SharePoint user profile synchronization job.
• Enable-SocialSitesUserProfileJob: Enables the SharePoint user profile synchronization job.
• Get-SocialSitesModules: Gets a list of Aurea Social modules currently installed.
• Install-SocialSitesModules: Installs a Aurea Social module without running a full install of Aurea Social.
• Remove-SocialSitesModules: Removes a Aurea Social module without running a full uninstall of Aurea Social.
• Update-SocialSitesModules: Updates a Aurea Social module without running a full update of Aurea Social.
• Export-SocialSitesConfiguration: Exports detailed information about the SharePoint and Aurea Social instances.
• Get-SocialSitesConfiguration: Gets detailed information about the SharePoint and Aurea Social instances.
• New-SocialSitesServiceApplication: Provisions a new Aurea Social service application.
• Remove-SocialSitesServiceApplication: Removes an existing Aurea Social service application.
• Update-SocialSitesServiceApplication: Updates an existing Aurea Social service application.
• Set-SocialSitesCaching: Configures caching in Aurea Social.
• Enable-SocialSitesDebugger: Enables the Just-In-Time debugger on the local machine if previously disabled with the Disable-SocialSitesDebugger Cmdlet.
• Disable-SocialSitesDebugger: Disables the Just-In-Time debugger on the local machine.
• Enable-SocialSitesMySiteLookout: Enables Lookout on the My Site host.
• Set-SocialSitesMySiteLookoutHomePage: Sets Lookout as the home page of the My Site host.
• Set-SocialSitesMySiteNewsFeedWebParts: Replaces the web parts on the My Site Newsfeed page with Aurea Social web parts.
• Enable-SocialSitesMySiteWebParts: Enables the Aurea Social web parts feature on the My Site host.
• Update-SocialSitesNotificationProviders: Updates the Aurea Social notification providers.
• Restart-SocialSitesServices: Restarts SharePoint and IIS services on each server in the farm.
• Add-SocialSitesSolution: Adds an individual Aurea Social solution to the farm.
• Install-SocialSitesSolution: Deploys an individual Aurea Social solution to the farm.
• Remove-SocialSitesSolution: Retracts and remove an individual Aurea Social solution from the farm.
• Update-SocialSitesSolution: Updates an individual Aurea Social solution on the farm.
• Add-SocialSitesSolutions: Adds the available Aurea Social solutions to the farm.
• Install-SocialSitesSolutions: Deploys the available Aurea Social solutions to the farm.
• Remove-SocialSitesSolutions: Retracts and remove the Aurea Social solutions from the farm.
• Update-SocialSitesSolutions: Updates the Aurea Social solutions on the farm.
• Start-SocialSitesWebApplicationPools: Ensures the IIS web application pools are started for the SharePoint web applications.
• Copy-SocialSitesWebAplicationsBinContent: Copies the application bin content to the web applications on each SharePoint server.
• Disable-SocialSitesWebApplications: Disables end-user access to the SharePoint web applications.
• Enable-SocialSitesWebApplications: Enables end-user access to the SharePoint web applications.
• Get-SocialSitesAssemblies: Gets a list of Aurea Social assemblies in the Global Assembly Cache on the local machine.
• Repair-SocialSitesAssemblies: Attempts to add the assemblies from each SharePoint solution in the current directory to the Global Assembly Cache.