Accessing advanced SharePoint 2010 functionality with external libraries
In the previous recipe, we looked at some of the functionalities available to you in the PowerShell library, designed to help you access basic features in SharePoint. By using those features, you can access SharePoint objects and manipulate their properties. But what if you need to access the object model beyond what's available to you from the PowerShell snap-in for SharePoint? In this recipe, we'll take a look at how you can access more advanced features in SharePoint by referencing SharePoint assemblies and associated methods in those libraries.
Getting ready
In this example, we'll be using PowerGUI to execute our script. So log in to your environment with administrative privileges and launch PowerGUI.
How to do it...
The following steps will demonstrate how you can use some of the advanced SharePoint functions by referencing external assemblies in your PowerShell script:
1. Navigate to the test site URL: http://intranet...
