Create Publishing web, Pages, approve them

My Task is to copy a bunch of publishing pages into an "Archived Site", before you think the obvious that is just a dumb approach, this script is for a bull headed client. Rather then try and explain, it's just best to give them what they want even if it's not what they need. To get started I created a script that would populate a newsroom subsite with subsites for each month and add 5 checked in, approved pages to each of the subsites. Here is that Script:

$months = "January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December"

#delete the subsites

foreach($month in $months)

{

       $w = get-SPWeb http://ssrap1:8080/NewsRoom/$month

       Remove-SPWeb -Identity $w -Confirm

}

#create the subsite for the newsroom

foreach($month in $months)

{

       $SiteTemplate = get-SPWebTemplate | where {$_.Title -eq "Publishing Site with Workflow"}

      

       $web = New-SPWeb -Url http://ssrap1:8080/NewsRoom/$month  -Name $month -Template $SiteTemplate

       Write-Host "`nCreate SubSite: $web"

      

       $pWeb = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingWeb]::GetPublishingWeb($web)

      

       $i = 0

       #create 5 pages for subsite

       Write-Host Createing Pages for $month subsite

       while ($i -le 5)

       {

              $newPage = $pWeb.AddPublishingPage();

              $newPage.CheckIn("Checked in")

              $i++

       }

       $pages = $pWeb.GetPublishingPages()

      

       #approve all pages

       foreach($p in $pages)

       {

                $p.ListItem.File.Approve("Page approved automatically by PowerShell script")

       }            

       $web.dispose()

}

Remove Custom Actions

<#

.Synopsis

   Deletes Custom Site Actions

.DESCRIPTION

       iterates over selected site or all sites, lists all custom site actions; allows user to select custom actions for deletion

.EXAMPLE

   Remove-spmSiteAction

.EXAMPLE

   Remove-spmSiteAction -$siteAppUrl http://wingtip.ca

#>

function Remove-spmSiteAction

{

    [CmdletBinding()]

    [OutputType([int])]

    Param

    (

        # Param1 help description

        [Parameter(Mandatory=$false,

                   ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$True,

                   Position=0)]

        $siteAppUrl

    )

    Begin

    {

              #if site app url is not proviede as a parameter, prompt the user to pick one from the current farm

              if($siteAppUrl -eq $null -or $siteAppUrl -eq "")

              {

                     $myFarmServices = (Get-SPFarm).services | Where {$_.typename -like "*Web Application"}

                     $selection = -1

                     [string[]]$Apps = @()

                    

                     do{

                           $count = 0

                           foreach($webApp in $myFarmServices.WebApplications){

                                  Write-output ("{0}) {1}" -f $count++, $webApp.url)

                                  $Apps += $webApp.url

                           }

                           Write-output ("{0}) All" -f $count)

                           if(($selection = Read-Host "Please select the Site app you'd like to deploy to, -1 to quit") -eq -1){

                                  write-error ("Terminated cmdlet, user request") -erroraction stop

                           }

                     }while($selection -lt 0 -or $selection -gt $count)

                    

                     if($selection -eq $count){

                           $siteAppUrl = $Apps

                     }

                     else{

                           $siteAppUrl = $Apps[$selection]

                     }

              }

             

             

    }

    Process

    {

              $siteAppUrl | ForEach{

                     $site = Get-SPSite $_

                     $SiteActionsToRemove = @()

                    

                     if($SiteActionsToDelete.count -eq $null)

                     {

                           $selection

                           do

                           {

                                  Write-host "Please select the Custom action you wish to remove, 0 to remove selected entries, -1 to cancel"

                                  $count = 0

                                  $CustomSiteActionList = @()

                                  foreach($customAction in $site.UserCustomActions)

                                  {

                                         if(-not ($SiteActionsToRemove -contains $customAction.Id))

                                         {

                                                Write-Host (++$count) $customAction.Title, $customAction.Id

                                                $CustomSiteActionList += $customAction.Id

                                         }

                                  }

                                 

                                  $selection = Read-Host

                                 

                                  if(($selection -eq -1))

                                  {

                                         write-error ("Terminated cmdlet, user request") -erroraction stop

                                  }

                                  elseif($selection -gt $count)

                                  {

                                         Write-host "`nselection too high, please pick again "

                                  }

                                  elseif($selection -lt 0)

                                  {

                                         Write-host "`nselection too low, please pick again"

                                  }

                                  elseif($selection -gt 0)

                                  {

                                         $SiteActionsToRemove += $CustomSiteActionList[$selection-1]

                                  }

                           }while($selection -ne 0)

                          

                     }

                     Write-Host "`n"

                     if($SiteActionsToRemove -eq $null)

                     {

                           Write-Host No Site actions selected for deletion

                     }

                     else

                      {

                           foreach($customActionGuid in $SiteActionsToRemove)

                           {

                                  $customAction = $site.UserCustomActions[$customActionGuid]

                                  Write-host Deleteing Custom Action: $customAction.title With GUID: $customAction.id

                                  $customAction.Delete()

                           }

                     }

                     $site.dispose()

              }

    }

    End

    {

                    

    }

}