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Showing external content with your Sitecore PowerShell scripts

Sitecore PowerShell Extensions have proven time and again as a great tool for manipulating and exposing Sitecore content, but that about if you need to show your authors something that is external to your Sitecore instance? This blog shows a number of techniques to show pages and embedded content in various ways as part of your script execution.

Showing external content in a new tab

The most obvious way is to show your author an external page as a new tab in the browser. This can be achieved by executing a JavaScript expression that will become available in SPE 4.4+

Session state elevation

Sitecore PowerShell Extensions (SPE) is a very sharp tool that allows you to execute arbitrary code within your Sitecore instance and manipulate large amounts of content, all while providing a rich user interfaces for it. SPE frees you from the burden of having to restart the environment when deploying the code. The great capabilities come with some risks you might not immediately realize:

It allows you to Execute Arbitrary code!

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