Finding SharePoint GUIDs using PowerShell

 

Two years or so ago I posted an article on how to find site, web and list GUIDs using a console application or an _LAYOUTS application page. Here’s a little update to do the same thing with a few lines of PowerShell.

New! Finding SharePoint 2013 GUIDs using REST: http://techtrainingnotes.blogspot.com/2014/02/sharepoint-2013-and-office-365-finding.html

2007 version:

[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.SharePoint")
$site = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite("http://yourserver/sites/yoursite")
$web = $site.OpenWeb("yoursubsite")
write-host "Site: " + $site.id
write-host "Web: " + $web.id
$web.lists | Format-Table title,id -AutoSize
$web.Dispose()
$site.Dispose()

2010 version:

$site = Get-SPSite http://yourserver/sites/yoursite
$web = $site.OpenWeb("yoursubsite")
write-host "Site: " + $site.id
write-host "Web: " + $web.id
$web.lists | Format-Table title,id -AutoSize
$web.Dispose()
$site.Dispose()

Note: You could change $site.OpenWeb("yoursubsite")  to $site.RootWeb to get just the top site.

 

Here’s what the output looks like:

 

.