Display Available Web Applications on the Farm

Scenario/Problem: You need to obtain a web application reference and therefore need a listing of available web applications.

Solution: Use the Get-SPWebApplication cmdlet without any parameters to retrieve all available web applications.

To obtain a web application reference object, you need to find the identity of the web application. Using the Get-SPWebApplication by itself (see Listing 5.1) displays all available web applications, as shown in Figure 5.1.

Listing 5.1. Display All Available Web Applications

Get-SPWebApplication

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Figure 5.1. Get-SPWebApplication displays all available web applications. ...

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