Export all SharePoint solutions wsp using PowerShell script

Sometimes you may need to export all SharePoint 2010/2013 farm solutions as a backup process or to deploy them from staging environment to production environment.

Start Windows Management Shell as Administrator.

Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell –erroraction SilentlyContinue

## setup our output directory
$dirName = "c:\FolderName"

Write-Host Exporting solutions to $dirName
foreach ($solution in Get-SPSolution)
{
    $id = $Solution.SolutionID
    $title = $Solution.Name
    $filename = $Solution.SolutionFile.Name

    Write-Host "Exporting ‘$title’ to …\$filename" -nonewline
    try {
        $solution.SolutionFile.SaveAs("$dirName\$filename")
        Write-Host " – done" -foreground green
    }
    catch
    {
        Write-Host " – error : $_" -foreground red
    }
}