Powershell Error “The term 'Get-Spsite' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function…”

Question

I just typed the follow to try and get my SharePoint site:

$site = Get-SPSite -Identity $siteID

And I get the following error message:

The term 'Get-SPSite' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script..

So after some searches, Apparenty I have to add the following line:

Add-PSSnap in Microsoft.SharePoint.Powershell 

but when I run it, I get the following message: Add-PSSnapin: No snap-ins have been registered for Windows Powershell version 5

Any idea of what I'm doing wrong?

Thank you for help :)

Answer 1

Invalid syntax: Add-PSSnap in Microsoft.SharePoint.Powershell

Use:

if(!(Get-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -ErrorAction:SilentlyContinue))
{ 
Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell 
}

Please make sure that you run the PowerShell on a SharePoint Server machine.

The PowerShell script below can get a list of snap-ins that are registered on your computer:

Get-PSSnapin –registered

More information about Add-PSSnapin