MOSS / SharePoint 2007 – PowerShell script to download all farm solutions – requires while migration

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SharePoint migration continues. Today new issue and solution.

Background :

• Recently I have an article to download all SharePoint farm solution in SharePoint 2010 environment – SharePoint OnPremises – PowerShell script to download farm solutions – .wsp files – requires while migration
• Now we have migration project from SharePoint 2007 / Moss to SharePoint 2016
• So one of the step is deploying our custom farm solution in SharePoint 2010 environment
• To execute above step we need to download all the farm solutions in MOSS environment
• We already have PowerShell script but it didnt worked completly in MOSS environment
• We need to do bit change in PowerShell script and hence this article 🙂

PowerShell script to download custom farm solutions from MOSS / SharePoint 2007 environment :

• Load SharePoint assembly

[System.Reflection.Assembly]::Load("Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c")

• Get the farm object

#Get Farm object
[Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPFarm]$farm = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPFarm]::get_Local()

• set the directory where we need to download the farm solutions

$solDirName = "d:\MOSS Farm Solutions"

• Loop through each solution using “Solutions” property of “Farm” object => Farm.Solutions
• Get the name of solution
• Save the solution on file system as

foreach ($solution in $farm.Solutions)
{   
    Write-Host "Downloading solution $($Solution.Name)"
    $solutionName= $Solution.SolutionFile.Name
    $solution.SolutionFile.SaveAs("$solDirName\$solutionName")
}  

Complete Script :

[System.Reflection.Assembly]::Load("Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c")

#Get Farm object
[Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPFarm]$farm = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPFarm]::get_Local()

$solDirName = "d:\MOSS Farm Solutions"

foreach ($solution in $farm.Solutions)
{   
    Write-Host "Downloading solution $($Solution.Name)"
    $solutionName= $Solution.SolutionFile.Name
    $solution.SolutionFile.SaveAs("$solDirName\$solutionName")
}  

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