Set Welcome page with PowerShell in SharePoint 2010

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Introduction

It is very common that we want to set our custom page as a welcome page. Its always advisable instead of doing this from UI, provide script that can used in any environments.
In this post we will see the script how to set welcome page for a site using PowerShell

Set Welcome page

Remove-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -erroraction SilentlyContinue Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -erroraction SilentlyContinue


################################################### code###################################################
$sourceWeb = $null

try

	{

		$SiteUrl   = "http://adigroup/myteamsite"

		$sourceWeb = Get-SPSite -identity $SiteUrl

		$oFolder   = $sourceWeb.RootFolder;

		$oFolder.WelcomePage = "Pages/MyCustomPage.aspx";

	    $oFolder.Update();
	}

	catch

	{

		write-host $_.exception
	}

	finally

	{

		if($sourceWeb  -ne $null){$sourceWeb.Dispose()}
	}

Conclusion

If you have to set welcome page in subsites, just get all the webs by $sourceWeb.AllWebs. Loop each web and use the same code as above.Hope you got how to implement the welcome page from PowerShell script.

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