Creating SP 2010 Sites using PowerShell

We all know PowerShell is recommended command line tool for SharePoint 2010. But PowerShell does not support the same style as the UI supports.

I ran in to problem, when I was creating sites using PowerShell. After creating sites I was not able to see the default groups (Members, Visitors and Owners) for the site. But when you create site from UI, you have all those available.

I figured out that, we need to execute one more command in order to get that. The steps can be as listed below:

1. Create Site, either using New-SPSite or simple .NET style code to add site to web application $WebApp.Sites.Add(params....).

2. After that execute command as :

$CurrentWeb.CreateDefaultAssociatedGroups($PrimaryOwnerLogin,

$SecondaryOwnerLogin,

$CurrentWebTitle)

It will create the groups with the current site title for e.g. MyProjects Members.