SharePoint 2013 WCM Advanced Cookbook

Using PowerShell to apply a composed look to all sites in a site collection

Windows PowerShell provides administrators with the ability to create complex scripts that utilize Cmdlets and .NET code. The Microsoft SharePoint PowerShell snap-in exposes many of the common administrative functions of SharePoint as Cmdlets. For the rest, we can use the server-side object model.

Since composed looks are applied at the site level, it can be cumbersome to apply them to a large number of sites. In this recipe, we are going to use PowerShell to iterate through all of the SharePoint sites in a site collection to apply a composed look.

Tip

When using complex PowerShell, it is ideal to write the commands in a text file with a .ps1 extension and then execute the ...