How to use Get-SPFeature to list features in a SharePoint farm?

Introduction

Get-SPFeature is a command used to list out all the features in a SharePoint farm (scope can be set). You can scope this command to different levels, the levels are…

• Farm – Only SharePoint farm level features are displayed
• Web Application – Only web application level features are displayed
• Site – Only site level features are displayed
• Web – For sub sites

Examples…

#Display all SharePoint farm features
Get-SPFeature –Limit All

Scoping features…

#Display all SharePoint features scoped to farm
Get-SPFeature -Limit ALL | Where-Object {$_.Scope -eq "FARM"}

#Display all SharePoint features scoped to web application
Get-SPFeature -Limit ALL | Where-Object {$_.Scope -eq "webapplication"}

#Display all SharePoint features scoped to site
Get-SPFeature -Limit ALL | Where-Object {$_.Scope -eq "site"}

#Display all SharePoint features scoped to web
Get-SPFeature -Limit ALL | Where-Object {$_.Scope -eq "web"}

List all features in a Site Collection…

#Displays all SharePoint features for a site collection using Grid view

Get-SPSite http://mysiteurl | Get-SPWeb -Limit ALL |%{ Get-SPFeature -Web $_ } | Out-GridView –Title “All features for this site”

Sample Grid Output…

Help…

#For detailed help type in… Get-Help Get-SPFeature –Full