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Go Behind ProjectWise Administrator Tasks with PowerShell

Marty Nickel, Senior Systems ArchitectProject Delivery, Americas

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Marty Nickel, Senior Systems ArchitectProject Delivery, Americas


Agenda

What is PowerShell?

ProjectWise and PowerShell

What can you learn here?

Additional information and training


What is PowerShell?

• PowerShell is a task automation and configuration management framework from Microsoft, consisting of a command-line shell and associated scripting language built on the .NET Framework and .NET Core.


Where do I start?

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ProjectWise and PowerShell


PWPS – ProjectWise PowerShell

• Started off with Tim Poth and then an intern about five years ago

• Add-on beta install in the v8i world

• Moved onto Managed Services to help administrate multiple datasources

– 150+ datasources by 5 people globally

• Base install delivered with ProjectWise Administrator Connect Edition

• 53 delivered cmdlets

• And then people found out about it……


PWPS_DAB

• Created and developed by Dave Brumbaugh and Brian Flaherty

• 188 cmdlets

• New home for old customizations

– Change storage area for tree

– Dave’s reports

– Export/Import

• Support is on BE Communities

• Ever expanding and driven by you the user


What can we do with ProjectWise and PowerShell?


Access Control

• Modification– Update-PWFolderSecurity

– Update-PWFolderSecuritybyUserListSwap

– Clear-PWUserRichProjectRights

– Add-PWWorkflowState

– Import-PWAccessControlFromExcel

– Reset-PWFolderSecurity

• Reporting– Get-PWFolderSecurity

– Export-PWAccessControlToExcel

– Get-PWStates


Project Creation and Configuration

• Modification– New-PWRichProject

– New-PWRichProjectFromDataTables

– New-PWRichProjectFromSpreadsheet

• Reporting– Get-PWRichProjects

– Get-PWRichProjectReport

– Get-PWRichProjectTypes


User Management

• Modification– New-PWUser

– New-PWGroup

– New-PWUserList

– Set-PWUserListOwners

• Reporting– Get-PWMonthlyLogins

– Get-PWMontlyLoginsDataTable

– Get-PWUsersByLastLogin

– Get-PWUsersByMatch


Connected Projects

• Cmdlets available– Add-PWConnectedProject

– Add-PWExternalUsersToConnectedProject

– Add-PWUsersToConnectedProject

– Add-PWUsersToConnectedProjectByGroup

• Came about to help with Deliverables Management


Random cmdlets

• Get-PWDSSession

• Set-PWDSSession

• Add-PWIplotDocumentsToIPSFile

• Automated TitleBlock Updates– Checkout-PWDocuments

– Checkin-PWDocumentsorFree

• New-PWInputOutputPerformanceReport

• Get-PWReferenceReportForDocuments

• Set-PWUserLicenseSource

• Convert-PWUserToFederated– Bryan Sapen converted 15k accounts in about 12

minutes


What can you learn while you are here


Project Archiving

• Datasource to Datasource– Move projects from active to archive

– Helps follow best practice of only having active work in your datasource

• Datasource to Disk– This will be shown as a first step

– Can be used to hand data over to the owner

• Schedulable, highly configurable and you can link it to other systems like SharePoint


Project Creation

• Creating from a template

• Create new project based UserLists

• Replace access control within new project with new userlists


Additional Training and Information


Special Interest Group (SIG)

• Second Thursday of every month

• Highly technical and meant for Power Users and ProjectWise Administrators

• PowerShell for two straight sessions– Modification

– Reporting

– What’s new

• Something else that’s technical

• Did I mention it’s technical?


BE Communities

• Treating it as an open source

• All drops are placed there

• FAQ and Links– Microsoft Training

– Module Drops

– Requests

– Suggestions– SIG Registration

– Past recordings

– V8i installer

– Link to scripts

• Ask your questions there

• Build this as a community