As explained in the there are two ways of creating a snapshot on your clients farm. Using either the SPDocKit Snapshot Wizard - Consultant or the SPDocKit PowerShell Module.
If you decided to use a PowerShell Module, here is a list of all the available commands. You can also view them in the PowerShell console it self, by running:
Get-Help New-SPDocKitSnapshot -full
General information on how to create a snapshot can be viewed [here]../how-to/create-snapshot.md).
Crawls the SharePoint farm, creating a snapshot file containing the current state of the farm's configuration at the specified location. The created file can then be used by SPDocKit Consultant to browse the configuration and document it. Note that this process might take a while, depending on the farm size and the settings selected.
By default, the New-SPDocKitSnapshot cmdlet does a full load of a SharePoint farm and creates the snapshot file in the current working directory. You can exclude the load of some settings by specifying the corresponding parameter.
Errors that occur will be logged in the Windows Event Log with the source SPDocKit PS.
Parameters:
-SiteCollectionsOff or -noSites
If set, site collections will not be loaded. Load depth will be set to web applications.
Required? false
Position? named
Default value
Accept pipeline input?
Accept wildcard characters?
-PersonalSitesOff or -noPers
If set, personal sites will be skipped.
Required? false
Position? named
Default value
Accept pipeline input?
Accept wildcard characters?
-FeaturesAndSolutionsOff or -noFeats
If set, features and solutions will not be loaded.
Required? false
Position? named
Default value
Accept pipeline input?
Accept wildcard characters?
-DatabasePermissionsOff or -noDbPerm
If set, database permissions will not be loaded.
Required? false
Position? named
Default value
Accept pipeline input?
Accept wildcard characters?
-ProgramsAndUpdatesOff or -noUpdates
If set, programs and updates will not be loaded.
Required? false
Position? named
Default value
Accept pipeline input?
Accept wildcard characters?
-SQLServerConfigurationOff or -noSQL
If set, SQL Server configuration will not be loaded.
Required? false
Position? named
Default value
Accept pipeline input?
Accept wildcard characters?
-IISSettingsOff or -noIIS
If set, IIS settings will not be loaded.
Required? false
Position? named
Default value
Accept pipeline input?
Accept wildcard characters?
-ProjectServerSettingsOff or -noPSSettings
If set, Project Server settings and Project Server projects will not be loaded.
Required? false
Position? named
Default value
Accept pipeline input?
Accept wildcard characters?
-ProjectServerProjectsOff or -noPSProj
If set, Project Server projects will not be loaded.
Required? false
Position? named
Default value
Accept pipeline input?
Accept wildcard characters?
-Location or -l <String>
Defines the location on the disk where the SPDocKit snapshot file will be saved.
Required? false
Position? named
Default value Current working directory
Accept pipeline input?
Accept wildcard characters?
-NumberOfThreads or -threads <UInt16>
Defines the number of threads that will be used for parallel load. Maximum number is 32.
Required? false
Position? named
Default value 4
Accept pipeline input?
Accept wildcard characters?
-ServerLoadGlobalTimeout or -globalTimeout <UInt16>
Defines the timeout for the entire server load process in seconds.
Required? false
Position? named
Default value 1800
Accept pipeline input?
Accept wildcard characters?
-ServerLoadOperationTimeout or -operationTimeout <UInt16>
Defines the timeout for a single server load in seconds.
Required? false
Position? named
Default value 900
Accept pipeline input?
Accept wildcard characters?
-FarmAccessTimeout or -accessTimeout <UInt16>
Defines the timeout for accessing the SharePoint farm in seconds.
Required? false
Position? named
Default value 120
Accept pipeline input?
Accept wildcard characters?
-Verbose
If set, a log file will be created and saved to the same directory as the snapshot file.
Required? false
Position? named
Default value
Accept pipeline input?
Accept wildcard characters?
<CommonParameters>
This cmdlet supports the common parameters: Verbose, Debug, ErrorAction, ErrorVariable, WarningAction, WarningVariable, OutBuffer, PipelineVariable, and OutVariable. For more information, see about_CommonParameters [here](http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=113216).
Outputs:
———————— EXAMPLE 1 ————————
New-SPDocKitSnapshot
Does a full load of the SharePoint farm and creates a snapshot file in the default location (current working directory).
———————— EXAMPLE 2 ————————
New-SPDocKitSnapshot -PersonalSitesOff -DatabasePermissionsOff -threads 8 -location "C:\spdockit\"
Skips personal sites and does not load database permissions, using 8 threads for parallel load. Saves the snapshot file to "C:\spdockit\" folder.
———————— EXAMPLE 3 ————————
New-SPDocKitSnapshot -noFeats -noUpdates -noIIS -noSQL
Excludes features and solutions, programs and updates, IIS settings and SQL Server configuration from a load, using aliases instead of full named parameters.
———————— EXAMPLE 4 ————————
New-SPDocKitSnapshot -globalTimeout 3000 -FarmAccessTimeout 500
Sets the server global timeout to 3000 seconds, farm access timeout to 500 seconds and does a full load of the SharePoint farm, saving the snapshot file to the default location (current working directory).
