PowerShell™ for SharePoint® 2013 How-To

Display All Subsites Within a Site Collection

Scenario/Problem: You need to obtain a site reference and therefore need a listing of available subsites within a specific site collection.

Solution: Use the Get-SPWeb cmdlet with a wildcard Identity path.

To display all subsites within a site collection, you need to use the Get-SPWeb cmdlet with the Identity parameter. If you provide only the site collection URL, Get-SPWeb returns only the site collection web object. Therefore, you need to provide a wildcard path, as shown in Listing 8.11.

Listing 8.11. Displaying All Subsites Within a Site Collection

Get-SPWeb -Identity "http://sp2013/sites/sitecol/*"

You can also use the Site parameter instead of the wildcard Identity parameter to retrieve ...