Then we must provide a mechanism to differentiate the creation under "sites" level and the creation at root level.
In order to do this, first we must talk about conditional in powershell. The reference to this aspect will be short beacuse the target of this blog is Sharepoint. It´s enough to know the following structures:
BASIC CONDITIONAL:
if (<CONDITION>) {<ACTION>}
else {<ALTERNATIVE ACTION>}
CONDITION: The situation to evaluate.
ACTION: The task to do if the condition is true.
ALTERNATE ACTION: The task to do if the condition is false.
LOGICAL OPERATORS:
-eq Equal to
-lt Less than
-gt Greater than
-ge Greater than or Eqaul to
-le Less than or equal to
-ne Not equal to
So the final code of the script is:
Write-Host "This
script creates one site collection after you provide the information needed for
it." -ForegroundColor Blue
#This part presents the templates and languages for Site Collections
Write-Host "Codes
for templates and languages available"
Get-SPWebTemplate
Get-SPWebTemplate
#This part recollects the information for Site
Collection creation
$WebApp = read-host "Please, introduce the Web Application URL: "
$ContentDatabase = read-host "Please, introduce the Content Database name: "
$ContentDatabase = read-host "Please, introduce the Content Database name: "
#The variable $Sufix is the part of URL after
"/sites/
#Example http://webapplication/sites/sufix
$Sufix = read-host "Please, introduce the site collection sufix: "
$Template= read-host "Please, introduce the Template ID:"
$LocaleID = read-host "Por favor, introduce the Locale ID:"
$Title = read-host "Por favor, introduce the Title:"
$OwnerAlias=read-host "Por favor, introduce the primary administrator(DOMAIN\user):"
$SecondaryOwnerAlias=read-host "Por favor, introduce the secondary administrator(DOMAIN\USER):"
$Template= read-host "Please, introduce the Template ID:"
$LocaleID = read-host "Por favor, introduce the Locale ID:"
$Title = read-host "Por favor, introduce the Title:"
$OwnerAlias=read-host "Por favor, introduce the primary administrator(DOMAIN\user):"
$SecondaryOwnerAlias=read-host "Por favor, introduce the secondary administrator(DOMAIN\USER):"
#This part has two steps.
#First Content Database creation
try
{
Write-Host "Trying to create Content Database... please wait..."
New-SPContentDatabase -Name $ContentDatabase -WebApplication $WebApp -MaxSiteCount 1 -WarningSiteCount 0
#Second Site Collection creation
{
Write-Host "Trying to create Content Database... please wait..."
New-SPContentDatabase -Name $ContentDatabase -WebApplication $WebApp -MaxSiteCount 1 -WarningSiteCount 0
#Second Site Collection creation
Write-Host "Trying to create the Site Collection... please wait..."
#If the variable $sufix is empty create at root level
If ($sufix -eq "") {New-SPSite $webApp -OwnerAlias $OwnerAlias –Language $LocaleID -Template $Template -Name "$Title" -SecondaryOwnerAlias
$SecondaryOwnerAlias -ContentDatabase $ContentDatabase}
#If the variable $sufix has a character string create under /sites/
else {New-SPSite $webApp/sites/$Sufix -OwnerAlias $OwnerAlias –Language $LocaleID -Template $Template -Name "$Title" -SecondaryOwnerAlias
$SecondaryOwnerAlias -ContentDatabase $ContentDatabase}
}
catch
{
Write-Host "There was a problem:" $_ -ForegroundColor Red
}
