PowerShell ISE – resolving issue – Get-SPWebApplication : The term ‘Get-SPWebApplication’ 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. Bit about Add-PSSnapin

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Today small common issue 🙂 and quick resolution 🙂

Background / Details :

• SharePoint migration going on. We have migrated our SharePoint 2010 application to SharePoint 2013 application
• Databases are mounted to our new SharePoint 2013 web application
• Sites are opening properly in SharePoint 2010 UI
• Next step is to Visually upgrade all Site Collections so that they have SharePoint 2013 UI
• Since we have huge number of site collections, PowerShell our friend 🙂
• So started to write the PowerShell script and first step to get the web application to fetch all site collections to upgrade as

$webApp = Get-SPWebApplication -Identity "http://knowledgejunction.sharepoint.com/"

Issue / Error :

Get-SPWebApplication : The term ‘Get-SPWebApplication’ 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

Solution :

• Issue is – SharePoint module is not imported in PowerShell ISE – SharePoint snap-in is not added
• We could import SharePoint module by using Add-PSSnapin command as

#Add Microsoft SharePoint snap-in to the current session of PowerShell  
Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell

• After adding SharePoint snap in to the current session of PowerShell SharePoint CMDLETS working like a charm 🙂

Bit about “Add-PSSnapin”

• “Add-PSSnapin” CMDLET adds one or more Windows PowerShell snap-ins to the current session

Add-PSSnapin
   [-Name] <String[]>
   [-PassThru]
   [<CommonParameters>]

• Once we add sanp-in, we can use the cmdlets and providers that the snap-ins support in the current session as we did for SharePoint snap-in
• "Add-PSSnapin" adds the snap-in only to the current session of PowerShell ISE. To add the snap-in to all Windows PowerShell sessions, we need to add it to our Windows PowerShell profile
• Before adding a snap-in, "Add-PSSnapin" checks the version of the snap-in to verify that it is compatible with the current version of Windows PowerShell. If the snap-in fails the version check, Windows PowerShell reports an error

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