PowerShell script is heavily used for SharePoint 2013
upgrade and also daily administration. We have automated almost all SharePoint
2013 upgrade activities using PowerShell. Developers normally write the SharePoint
2013 upgrade step status and timing into log file so we could tracking the
progress and time spend. It would be helpful to provide feedback or status
messages directly to the PowerShell so person
running the script could know what the script is doing.
There are a number of ways you can accomplish this such
as using Write-Host, Write-Progress or Write-Verbose. The easy way is to use the
title bar of the PowerShell console or ISE. Here is example to display the time
spend on one of the SharePoint PowerShell command “Get-Get-SPSite -limit ALL”.
# Get current time
$startTime = [DateTime]::Now
# Execute any PowerShell script
Get-SPSite -limit ALL
# Calculate time spend
$totalTime = [DateTime]::Now
- $startTime
# Set time spend in second as
window title & display
$status =
"Get-Get-SPSite -limit ALL spend " + $totalTime.TotalSeconds + "
seconds"
$host.ui.RawUI.WindowTitle =
$status
The result is displayed as in the following screen shot as Window title.
As best practice, you might need to store the default original
window title in a variable and set back after your activities completed. You
could use the following PowerShell scripts.
# Store original window title
$title
= $host.ui.RawUI.WindowTitle
# Do something here
# Set back original window
title
$host.ui.RawUI.WindowTitle = $title
Now, you should have the PowerShell console directly display the upgrade status and timing for you in SharePoint 2013 upgrade.
