PowerShell commands come handy when you have to perform
administrative tasks in your SharePoint environment. In past where you have to
write code or a small utility program like a console application or Windows
Form application can now be achieved using PowerShell script. . I use this a
lot with my clients and since PowerShell script is run by the administrators
the IT people love it and don’t have to worry about anything.
In the recent times I have been asked by my clients to
provide them with a script to set master pages across multiple site collection
in a web application in order to push their branding. I thought that the same
script will be useful for a lot of people like me and decided to share the
script here by making the script more generic than the one I wrote for my clients.
#Enter the site URL
$siteUrl = Read-Host "Enter Site URL"
$rootSite = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite($siteUrl)
$spWebApp = $rootSite.WebApplication
foreach($site in $spWebApp.Sites)
{
$web = Get-SPWeb $site.Url
$featureFolderNameSite = "PublishingSite"
$featureFolderNameWeb = "PublishingWeb"
$FeatureIDSite = Get-SPFeature -Site $web.Url | Where
{$_.DisplayName -eq $featureFolderNameSite}
$FeatureIDWeb = Get-SPFeature -Web $web.Url | Where {$_.DisplayName
-eq $featureFolderNameWeb}
# Check Publishing feature is active at site level and site
collection level
#if not active activate.
if($FeatureIDSite -ne $null)
{
Write-Host
$featureFolderNameSite "is already activated at :" $web.Url
}
else
{
Enable-SPFeature
-Identity $featureFolderNameSite -Confirm:$false -Url $web.Url
Write-Host
$featureFolderNameSite "has been activated at :" $web.Url
}
if($FeatureIDWeb -ne $null)
{
Write-Host
$featureFolderNameWeb "is already activated at :" $web.Url
}
else
{
Enable-SPFeature
-Identity $featureFolderNameWeb -Confirm:$false -Url $web.Url
Write-Host
$featureFolderNameSite "has been activated at :" $web.Url
}
$web.CustomMasterUrl =
"/_catalogs/masterpage/nightandday.master"
$web.MasterUrl =
"/_catalogs/masterpage/nightandday.master"
$web.Update()
$site.Dispose()
}
$rootSite.Dispose()
The script takes the Site URL from the user and loops
through all the available site collection present in the web application in
which the current site collection is part and sets the master page on all the
site collections. The script also activates publishing feature at the site
collection level and at site level before setting the master page if it is not
activates already.
