Using list items to create sites programatically

Question

Hello All,
I am looking to programatically create sites based on items in a SharePoint list. The list has 4 columns, Name, Email, ManagerName, ManagerEmail.
The aim is to use PowerShell to create a foreach loop, that creates a site (using the "Name" column as the site title/URL) based on the #STS01 teamsite template, breaks permission inheritance, and then gives the Manager ("ManagerName")
contribute access to the site.
Not sure where to start with this, any advice would be appreciated!
Cheers!

Answer 1

Hi,
Here is the complete PowerShell code to create site with unique permissions and assign manager with contribute permissions.
I have created a list with following columns as shown in the screenshot.
Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
$sourceWebURL = "http://sp2013"
$sourceListName = "MySites"
$spSourceWeb = Get-SPWeb $sourceWebURL
$spSourceList = $spSourceWeb.Lists[$sourceListName]
$spSourceItems = $spSourceList.GetItems()
foreach($item in $spSourceItems)
$siteTitle = $item["Title"]
$siteName = $siteTitle -replace " ", ""
$NewSiteUrl = $sourceWebURL+"/"+$siteName
write-host "Title:"$siteTitle
write-host "Url:"$NewSiteUrl
#Create User Object from the List Item
$userWithContribute = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFieldUserValue($spSourceWeb,$item["ManagerName"].ToString());
#Create Sub-site with Unique Permissions
$newWeb = New-SPWeb -Url $NewSiteUrl -Name $siteTitle -Template "STS#0" -UniquePermissions
#Assign Manager with Contribute permission
Set-SPUser -Identity $itemUser.User -Web $newWeb -AddPermissionLevel "Contribute"
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