Saturday, October 26, 2013

Get-SPWebApplication is not recognised as the name of the cmdlet

When you try to execute SharePoint specific commands through PowerShell, might come across a message

"Get-SPWebApplication is not recognized as the name of the cmdlet ......"

The SP specific commands are not being recognized in PowerShell at this point. Adding a snap in would do the trick. Type the below command in your PowerShell  window.

Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.Sharepoint.Powershell

That's it. Provided that the rights in DB are there, you should be able to execute SharePoint based commands now.