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I've made several powershell script for my customers. They have very little knowledge about SharePoint and Powershell.

I want to let them run these scripts when they want, but don't want them to learn SharePoint Management shell.

What is the proper way to provide these scripts to the (power) users?

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    what sort of permissions do these "power users" have, both within SharePoint, and on the farm's servers? Normally the term "power user" refers to a site owner or admin who never sniffs the server. If that's the case they'll never be able to run powershell scripts directly. May 29, 2013 at 17:46
  • I didn't even see that. I'd assume these are admins with access to the server but no knowledge of PowerShell. Otherwise scripts wouldn't even be an option. Maybe he can elaborate? May 29, 2013 at 18:08
  • Good point, in this particular case they actually do have access to the server, but that is not always the case. Maybe I can make something that can run predefined scripts from Sharepoint ?
    – williamwmy
    May 29, 2013 at 20:46
  • Probably use the Client Side Object Model in those cases. Each case depends on the situation. May 30, 2013 at 13:51

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Give them a GUI : )

You could package the scripts into a console application with a simple menu to automate everything.

Execute PowerShell Script from C# with Commandline Arguments

Or a WPF application. That would work too (and would look a heck of a lot nicer).

WPF & PowerShell – Part 1 ( Hello World & Welcome to the Week of WPF)

Just some more-user-friendly ideas.

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Create a batch file(a text file with an extension of .bat). Inside the batch file write:

powershell .\myscript.ps1

Put the batch file in the same directory as your PowerShell scripts. Your users can just double click the batch file. Easy as it gets. Make sure you explicitly load the SharePoint snap-in in your PowerShell scripts:

Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.Powershell
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Have you tried PowerShell ISE? Check this link Download Powershell

ISE is an Integrated Development Environment to run and debug powershell in a more friendly way.

Hope this helps

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