Sharepoint Warmup Script

It is useful to warm up a site after app pool recycling or after a site creation in development environments. I found a very simple script which I made even simpler:

$url = "http://takana"
$wc = new-object net.webclient
$wc.credentials = \[System.Net.CredentialCache\]::DefaultCredentials
$wc.DownloadString($url) | out-null
$wc.Dispose()

For more sophisticated warmups Wahid Salemi provided an interisting script to warm up your Sharepoint. By the way. Let us save it as a powershell function. Take a look at sharepointryan’s functions. Let’s create a proper function of that:

function WarmUp-Site {
<#
.Synopsis
	Use this PowerShell script warm up a site.
.Description
	This PowerShell script uses net.webclient class to download the page and trigger warmup.
.Example
        WarmUp-Site -url http://intranet
	This example warms up http://intranet site.
.Notes
	Name: WarmUp-Site
	Author: Anatoly Mironov
	Last Edit: 2012-01-25
	Keywords: Warmup, Site
.Link
	https://sharepointkunskap.wordpress.com
.Inputs
	None
.Outputs
	None
#Requires -Version 2.0
#>
\[CmdletBinding()\]
Param(
\[string\]$url=(Read-Host "Please provide a site url (Examples: http://intranet)")
)
	$wc = new-object net.webclient
	$wc.credentials = \[System.Net.CredentialCache\]::DefaultCredentials
	$wc.DownloadString($url) | out-null
	$wc.Dispose()
}

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