I did not plan to write this post but a few blog posts around using SharePoint 2010 cmdlets within PowerShell ISE made me put my thoughts in to this. Last month, I published a post around using module-sets in PowerShell ISE. The idea was simple. We add a menu item to ISE addons menu and then on select of that menu item, we load a bunch of related modules for a specific task. The same thing can be done in case of SharePoint 2010 cmdlets too. This post suggests that you load SharePonit 2010 cmdlets using PowerShell profile. I would certainly do this with other “light-weight” modules but not with SharePoint 2010 snap-in. This, essentially, because this snap-in usually takes a long time (more than 7-8 secs) to load. This can be frustrating at times. I prefer loading this snap-in only when I need to those cmdlets. The method I mentioned to add addon menu item in an earlier post requires either PSISECream or ISEMenu modules. So, for those who don’t prefer using these modules, …
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