SharePoint Saturday was organized on Saturday, June 22 2013 at Sofia, Bulgaria. It is an educational, informative & lively day filled with sessions from respected SharePoint professionals & MVPs, covering a wide variety of SharePoint-orientated topics. Over 200 SharePoint architects, developers, and other professionals that work with Microsoft SharePoint technologies joined the conference. Virtual Affairs was sponsor of the event and colleague Natalia Pavlova, Team lead Bulgaria, gave two presentations: 1) SharePoint report server ‘Develop a SharePoint Dashboard with Report Server’ 2) SharePoint 2010 PowerShell ‘Make the hosting company life easier with SharePoint PowerShell’

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

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

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

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

5. How : Automate Deployments

6. 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.

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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.

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

11. SharePoint Solution Package

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

13. SharePoint PowerShell

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

15. 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

16. SharePoint PowerShell - Solution Management

17. 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)

18. 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

19. SharePoint PowerShell – Site Management

20. 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/

21. SharePoint PowerShell – Feature Management
 Install Feature
Install-SPFeature -Path “Feature_Path" –force
 UnInstall Feature
Uninstall-SPFeature -Identity "GUID"

22. SharePoint PowerShell – Feature Management

23. Questions and Answers?

24. SQLSaturday #199 in October!
 Saturday, October 26, 2013
 For the second time in Bulgaria!
 Free 1-day training event by/for SQL Server & BI
professionals
 More info and registration at:
 http://www.sqlsaturday.com/199/

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