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Windows PowerShell is Microsoft's task automation framework, consisting of a command-line shell and associated scripting language built on top of, and integrated with the .NET Framework. PowerShell provides full access to COM and WMI, enabling administrators to perform administrative tasks on both local and remote Windows systems.[except from WikiPedia]

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PowerShell: Script to check feature status (enabled/disabled) before activating

To check the state of a feature use (Get-SPFeature -Identity <FEATURE> -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue -Farm/-WebApplication/ -Site/-Web ) -ne $null The extra -Scope parameter will check if the featu …
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Powershell, why did the development team decide to only support async executions?

Also by moving the wait to the powershell script the script can select its own timeout. … In short it can be seen as more consistent to force the powershell script to take responsibilty for the timeouts/running of Start-SPAdminJob. …
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How do I check if a site already exists from PowerShell?

Using Powershell's ErrorAction you can suppress the error if a web does not exist. $exists = (Get-SPWeb $url -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) -ne $null
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Creating the secure store service master key fails

I ran into this same issue. I'm embarrased to admit I stopped investigating when I found that Start-Sleep 5 seemed a reliable workaround. Update-SPSecureStoreMasterKey -ServiceApplicationProxy $ssPro …
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SPWebConfigModification is throwing an error

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