[Script of Mar. 18] PowerShell Scripts to Warm-Up Applications in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010

Here is the script that I use.  The benefit is that is uses the SharePoint snapin to determine what sites are available in the farm and hits each one to warm it up.  New sites will automatically be warmed up.  I schedule it on one of the web front end servers in the farm.

Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -ErrorAction:SilentlyContinue

function Get-WebPage

{

param(

[string]$url

)

Write-Host "Getting $url"

$wc = New-Object Net.Webclient

$wc.Credentials = [System.Net.CredentialCache]::DefaultCredentials

return $wc.DownloadString($url);

}

Get-SPWebApplication -IncludeCentralAdministration | %{ Get-SPSite $_.Url } | Get-SPWeb | %{

   $null = Get-WebPage -url $_.Url

$_.Lists | ?{ -not $_.Hidden } | %{

       Get-WebPage "$($_.ParentWeb.Site.Url)$($_.DefaultViewUrl)" | Out-Null

}

}