Automate PDF configuration for SharePoint 2010 via PowerShell

PowerShell and SharePoint 2010 go together like peanut butter and chocolate, and Toni Frankola has combined the two to automate a rather error-prone administrative task.

Configuring PDF related stuff for SharePoint 2010 (and 2007) is very simple, yet annoying and often forgotten SharePoint configuration step. There are nice articles ( link , link ) to help you configure it but when you do it manually chances are you will miss configure something.

I wrote a simple PowerShell script to automate this, and it will do everything for you > configure PDF Icon and PDF crawling.

Here is what you need to do:

Grab the Powershell script and instructions over at SharePoint Use Cases