Provision SharePoint Site using Data stored in List via Powershell

Question

I have a custom list where users submit there request for new site, which stores, information such as Site Name, Site url, template type, Size of the site, Site Owners etc.

Can I use powershell script to capture that data and provision sites based off that?

If that can be done, can you please lead me to the right direction on where to start? I am a novice Powershell User and SharePoint Administrator.

Answer 1

To read the items from list :

$sourceWebURL = "http://sharepointsite"
$sourceListName = "mylist"

$spSourceWeb = Get-SPWeb $sourceWebURL
$spSourceList = $spSourceWeb.Lists[$sourceListName]
$spSourceItems = $spSourceList.GetItems()

$spSourceItems | ForEach-Object {
    Write-Host $_['ID']
    Write-Host $_['Title']
}

To create Site with:

New-SPWeb http://somesite/subweb1 -Template "STS#0"

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607579(v=office.15).aspx

http://www.bluedoglimited.com/SharePointThoughts/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=340