Question

I’m working on a multi-tenant SharePoint provisioning application and plan to use Powershell for most of the provisioning. I would like to use remote Powershell to invoke my cmdlets from a server that does not have SharePoint installed. However, before I can run any of the SharePoint cmdlets the SharePoint snap-in must be loaded into the runspace. Unfortunately, I can’t find a way to provide both the connection info and the snap-in when creating the runspace pool.

Runspace pool with connection

    Dim connectionUrl = New Uri(String.Format("http://{0}/wsman/", remoteServer))
    Dim connectionInfo = New WSManConnectionInfo(connectionUrl)

    Me._runspacePool = RunspaceFactory.CreateRunspacePool(10, 20, connectionInfo)

Runspace pool with snap-in

    Dim sessionState = InitialSessionState.Create("Microsoft.Sharepoint.Powershell")
    Me._runspacePool = RunspaceFactory.CreateRunspacePool(sessionState)

Does anyone know of a way to do this?

Answer 1

If you follow the directions below, you should be able to run any SharePoint cmdlets as if you were on the server.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/opal/archive/2010/03/07/sharepoint-2010-with-windows-powershell-remoting-step-by-step.aspx

Let me know if you have any trouble setting that up…I’ve recently done it myself and have it working quite well.