Questions regarding "Document farm configuration settings in SharePoint Server 2010"

Question

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff645391(v=office.14).aspx
I'm currently running the powershell script on my WFE. Is there a way to monitor progress? It looks like xml files would be written to the directory the ps1 was run from, but I'm not seeing anything, it has been 10 minutes so far. The SP2010 Management Shell
isn't showing me anything.
Thanks.

Answer 1

Hi,
The commands in the link you mentioned document the configurations of the web applications and service applications in the current farm, then export it as xml file to local disk via Export-Clixml command.
Let me make the first command as example, i.e.
Get-SPWebApplication | Export-Clixml .\WebAppFilename.xml -depth 4 . Please executes it, then the file should be exported to the default space. You could locate it by the folder name behind PS in Shell tool. In my environment, I run SharePoint 2010 Management
Shell as administrator, then it shows PS C:\Users\Administrator.CONTOSO> , then the WebAppFilename.xml file exists in
C:\Users\Administrator.CONTOSO.
You could set the specific folder to place the export files via modifying the command to:
 Get-SPWebApplication | Export-Clixml c:\WebAppFilename.xml -depth 4
Then the file should be in the root folder under C:\ disk.
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