Content Library Category

Cmdlets are usually implemented around resource operations. The four basic operations are CREATE, READ, UPDATE and DELETE. This set of operations is known as CRUD. Most of the cmdlets support CRUD which are respectively cmdlets that start with the New/Get/Set/Remove cmdlet verbs but they also may have additional operations

Step 1: Retrieve a object by running a Get command

# Retrieves all content libraries from the default connected servers.
Get-ContentLibrary

Step 2 : Run commands from the CRUD group

# Creates a new local content library that uses Datastore1 as a repository for its items.
New-ContentLibrary -Name 'Local Content Library' -Description 'Local content library description.' -Datastore $Datastore1 -Published

# Copies a content library item named 'vm1' to the 'Local content library' content library.
$item = Get-ContentLibraryItem -Name 'vm1'
$library = Get-ContentLibrary -Name 'Local content library' -Local
Copy-ContentLibraryItem -ContentLibraryItem $item -Destination $library

# Removes all content libraries whose names end in 'obsolete' from the default connected servers.
$libraries = Get-ContentLibrary -Name '*obsolete'
Remove-ContentLibrary $libraries

Step 3: Explore More Related Commands:

Export-ContentLibraryItem	This cmdlet exports content library item's files to the local machine.
Get-ContentLibraryItem	This cmdlet retrieves catalog items from the content library.
New-ContentLibraryItem	This cmdlet creates a new content library item in the specified content library.
Remove-ContentLibraryItem	This cmdlet removes the specified content library items.
Set-ContentLibrary	This cmdlet modifies content library's properties.
Set-ContentLibraryItem	This cmdlet modifies content library item's properties.