Useful Powershell Commands of SharePoint 2013

These are the following powershell commands which is commonly used during development, Farm Creation and for Administration:

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Backup & Restore
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Backup-SPSite -Identity http://ServerName:port -Path "c:\backup\file.bak"

Restore-SPSite -Identity http://Servername:port -Path "c:\backup\file.bak" -force

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Add and Install WSP
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Add-SPSolution c:\helloworld.wsp

Install-SPSolution –Identity helloworld.wsp -GACDeployment -force -WebApplication http://portal

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Remove WSP
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Remove-SPSolution -Identity helloworld.wsp

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Update WSP
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Update-SPSolution -Identity helloworld.wsp -LiteralPath C:\helloworld.wsp -GACDeployment