PowerShell Commands To Update, Uninstall and Remove Solution in SharePoint Central Adminstration

This article explains how to update, uninstall and remove a solution in SharePoint Central Administration using PowerShell commands.

Update Solution

First get your Update WSP file literal path.

Step 1

Right-click your solution and go to Open Folder in File Explorer.

Open Folder in File Explorer

Step 2

Open the bin folder.

Open bin folder

Step 3

Open the Debug folder and copy the literal path for your Updated WSP file (EmployeeDetails.wsp).

debug folder

Step 4

Open SharePoint 2013 Management Shell with Run as administrator.

Step 4

Run the following command:

    Update-SPSolution –Identity “Your WSP Name”.wsp –LiteralPath “WSP path Url”\”Your WSP Name”.wsp –GACDeployment

Run Command on cmd
Click Enter.

Console
Your solution will be updated.

employee detail

Uninstall Solution

Step 1

Open SharePoint 2013 Management Shell with Run as administrator.

Step 2

Run the following Command:

    Uninstall-SPSolution –Identity “Your WSP Name”.wsp –WebApplication “Site URL”

Run Command
Step 3

Type “Y” to continue and “N” for Cancel and click Enter.

click enter
Remove Solution

  1. Open SharePoint 2013 Management Shell with Run as administrator.
  2. Run the following command.

    Remove-SPSolution –Identity “Your WSP Name”.wsp

Summary

In this article we explored how to update, uninstall and remove a SharePoint solution in SharePoint 2013 using PowerShell commands.