The quickest way to download all the wsp-packages in a SharePoint farm

This post was most recently updated on August 26th, 2022.

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Sometimes – pretty often in the good old on-premises world, actually – you’ll need to have a copy of all the packages that are deployed to a certain farm.

So – how to download all of the deployed farm solutions (essentially, cabinet files renamed to .wsp) from a farm? Luckily, it’s quite easy!

Solution

To download all deployed farm solutions (wsp-packages) from a SharePoint farm is pretty simple using PowerShell. No need to download individual packages through cumbersome interfaces! You don’t even have to open the Central Administration! :)

The following script, when run in PowerShell, will download all of the deployed farm solutions to the specified $FolderPath. You’ll need to run the Powershell window as a farm admin, though!

$FolderPath = "c:\backup\wsp"  
foreach ($solution in Get-SPSolution)  
{  
   $id = $Solution.SolutionID  
   $title = $Solution.Name  
   $filename = $Solution.SolutionFile.Name  
   $solution.SolutionFile.SaveAs("$FolderPath\$filename")  
}

Originally got this one from the cool guys at C-Sharp Corner.

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Antti Koskela is a proud digital native nomadic millennial full stack developer (is that enough funny buzzwords? That's definitely enough funny buzzwords!), who works as Solutions Architect for Precio Fishbone, building delightful Digital Workplaces.

He's been a developer from 2004 (starting with PHP and Java), and he's been working on .NET projects, Azure, Office 365, SharePoint and a lot of other stuff. He's also Microsoft MVP for Azure.

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