Sharepoint commands not available in my computer's Powershell

Question

I am working on a project at my job with Sharepoint 2013 On-premises, and recently I discovered that there are multiple benefits by using Powershell to perform different tasks with the site.

However, my problem is that when I check the commands available in my system with this cmdlet ***Get-Command -noun SP**** there aren't any cmdlets for Sharepoint available.

I've tried a couple of SP cmdlets and the message I receive is this one:

The term 'SPcmdlet' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

I let you some information describing a little bit more the environment:

Sharepoint version: 2013

Development computer OS: Windows 7 SP1

Powershell version: 2.0

Sharepoint privileges: Site-Owner (Not SiteCollection administrator)

I just need to verify what steps can I follow to can use the SP cmdlets in my project!

Best Regards

Answer 1

You either need to use the SharePoint Management Shell, or you can run PowerShell as Administrator and fire this line:

Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.Powershell

If you have the right access, it will then allow you to run SharePoint cmdlets from then on.