Make the hosting company life easier with SharePoint PowerShell

Make the hosting company life
easier with SharePoint and
PowerShell
Natalia Pavlova

About me
 Natalia Pavlova
 Team Lead @
 SharePoint fan from version 2003

Agenda
 Why and How to make the hosting company
life easier for SharePoint projects?
 SharePoint PowerShell

Support SharePoint environment when you
don’t have access?
 Add new
Functionality
 Update
Functionality
 Integrate with
3rd parties

Automate deployments
 Solve
 Error prone manual deployments
 Unclear requirements
 Prevent Risks of
 Time consuming deployments
 High risk changes to production
 Human error
 Messy production systems
 Complicated roll-backs.

Deployment Good Practices
 Standardise where you can
 Make it simple
 Make it reusable
 Make it Self Aware
 Automating Infrastructure Deployment
 Treat configuration files as code
 Test your deployments – involve QA team

What to deliver to Hosting Company ?
 SharePoint packages
 solution packages
 Documentation
 Manual
 Release Notes
 Scripts for automated deployment
 SharePoint PowerShell Scripts
 Scripts for integration with 3rd parties

SharePoint Solution Packages
 What is a solution package?
 What to be in?
 Features
 Site definitions, Master Pages
 Application Pages, Custom Pages, layout pages
 Templates, Images
 Web Parts, User Controls
 Cascading style sheets ,JavaScript, JQuery
 Event Receivers, Workflow Activities, Workflow Assemblies
 Global Resources (.resx files) , XML,XLST and etc.
 Policies and assemblies.

Documentation
 Release Notes
 Released Items
 Open items
 Deployments by environment
 Installation Manuals
 PowerShell's Scripts settings

SharePoint PowerShell
 Introduction PowerShell
 Format: [verb]-[noun]
 PowerShell Scripts Execution
 Introduction SharePoint PowerShell
 Add-PsSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell
 SharePoint PowerShell Scripts Execution

SharePoint PowerShell
 Common actions
 Solution Deployments
 Create site collection
 Create Site
 Install/Activate/Deactivate Features
 Lists manipulations
 Set security settings

SharePoint PowerShell - Solution Management
 Deploy Solution
 Farm
 Add-SPSolution
 Install-SPSolution $SolutionName
 Get-SPSolution
 Uninstall-SPSolution
 Remove-SPSolution
 Update-SPSolution
 Sandbox
[Verb]-SPUserSolution
[Verb] : add, install, get, uninstall, remove, update

SharePoint PowerShell - Solution Management

SharePoint PowerShell - Site Management
 Get Site Template
 Get site template globally installed
$template =Get-SPWebTemplate "SharePointTemplate"
 Get site template available on the current web
$template =(Get-SPWebTemplate | Where { $_.Title –eq
$template } | Where { $_.LocaleId –eq "$lang"}).Name
$template =$web.GetAvailableTemplates(1033) | Where-
Object {$_.Name -eq "My Custom Template Name"}
$site= Get-SPSite "siteURL"
$site.GetWebTemplates(lcid)

SharePoint PowerShell - Site Management
 Create Site
New-SPSite "siteURL" –OwnerAlias "domaincompName" –Template
$template
web = New-SPWeb” siteURL”|
$web.ApplyWebTemplate("{FeatureGUID}#MyTemplate")
$site.GetWebTemplates(1033)| Format-Table -Property * -AutoSize
 Delete Site
Remove-SPSite -Identity $url

SharePoint PowerShell – Site Management

SharePoint PowerShell – Feature Management
 Getting the Feature list
Get-SPFeature -Site http://Site/
Get-SPSite http://SharePointSite/ | Get-SPWeb -Limit ALL | %{ Get-SPFeature -
Web $_ } | Sort DisplayName -Unique | FT DisplayName,Id
 Deactivating the Feature
Disable-SPFeature –Identity FeatureNameHere –url http://SharePointSite/
Disable-SPFeature –Identity FeatureIDHere –url http://SharePointSite/
 Activating the Feature
Enable-SPFeature –Identity FeatureNameHere –url http://SharePointSite/
Enable-SPFeature –Identity FeatureIDHere –url http://SharePointSite/

 Install Feature
Install-SPFeature -Path “Feature_Path" –force
 UnInstall Feature
Uninstall-SPFeature -Identity "GUID"

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