Automating Your Enterprise Application Deployments With PowerShell by Geoff Varosky - SPTechCon

Automating your Enterprise Application Deployments with PowerShell

 Geoff Varosky  Jornata  Managing Consultant, Senior Architect, Senior Developer, Director of Evangelism  President & Co-Founder Boston Area SharePoint Users Group  Co-Organizer SharePoint Saturday Boston  Recent Awards  Top 25 2012 Harmon.ie Online Community Influencer  Top 50 2012 KnowledgeLake Community Influencer  Blog – www.SharePointYankee.com  Email – geoff@varosky.com  Twitter – @gvaro

 Why Automation?  PowerShell  Environment Deployment  Application Deployment  Further Refinement  Resources & Tools  Q&A

 Who is using SharePoint?  SharePoint Developers?  SharePoint Administrators?  Familiar with Scripting Languages? (bash, batch files, perl, vbscript)  Using PowerShell?

 Pros  “Almost” human-less deployments  Re-Deployment  Restoration  Documented and actionable deployment  Saves on knowledge transfer  Reduces the risks of human error  Repeatable process

 Cons  Possible significant up-front time  Knowledge of PowerShell needed  Not managed code  Requires constant upkeep

 What is it?  More flexible, faster, extensible, and POWERful than STSADM  Scripting Language  Based on C#  Integrated with the .NET Framework  Load in DLLs  Provides full access to COM amd WMI  Not limited to JUST PowerShell  DOS commands (with UNIX-like aliases)

 Cmdlets  PowerShell Commands  Can create your own  Standardized using a verb-noun convention  Eat-Cake  Drink-Beer  Live-Life

 The Basics  Get-Command  Get-Help  Piping  Select-Object

 Aliases Cmdlet DOS Alias Description Get-Location pwd gl Current directory Set-Location cd, chdir sl Change current directory Copy-Item copy cpi Copy file/directory Remove-Item del ri Remove file/directory Move-Item move mi Move a file/directory New-Item - ni New a file/directory/object Clear-Item - cli Clear contents of file Get-Content type gc Read file contents to output Set-Content - sc Set file contents Format-Table - ft Formats output

 SharePoint Management Shell  Loaded with SharePoint 2010/2013  Automatically Loads Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell Snap In  531 cmdlets

 SharePoint Management Shell  Requires PowerShell 2.0  Backwards compatible, installs into 1.0 folder  <%SystemRoot%>System32WindowsPowerShellv1.0PowerShell.exe

 AutoSPInstaller  Deploy single or multi-server farms from one script  XML-based configuration  Re-launches with Elevated Privs to deal with User Access Control  Automatically download and install platform pre-requisites  Can be done in offline mode  Install both SharePoint and Office Web Apps using config files  ULS Logging path  IIS Configuration  PDF iFilter Installation

 AutoSPInstaller  Remote installation into other servers into the farm  Forefront installation and configuration  Logging of all installation  Easily re-start if a failure occurs  Easily slipstream installations (service pack 1, CUs, etc.)  Create web applications, site collections  New WFE or App Server? Wash, Rinse, Repeat.  New web application or service application? Wash, Rinse, Repeat.

 Configure Service Applications  User Profile Service Application  User Profile Synchronization Service  Metadata Service Application  SharePoint Foundation User Code Service  State Service Application  Usage and Health Service Application  Secure Store Service  Enterprise Search Service Application  Web Analytics Service Application  Business Data Connectivity Service Application  Excel Service Application  Access Service Application

 Configure Service Applications  PerformancePoint Service Application  Visio Graphics Service Application  Word Automation (Conversion) Service Application  Word Viewing Service Application  Excel Service Application (if not already provisioned by virtue of having an Enterprise license)  Not PowerPivot  Overly complex install

 Creates databases based on YOUR naming conventions

 Maintenance  Any configurable change needs to be updated  If versioned, provides an evolution of your farm  Ensures

 Why deploy applications in PowerShell?  Developers can pass installations to administrators  Replicable through environment deployments DEV TEST PROD

 What can be automated?  Farm Configuration  Service application configuration  Search scopes  Managed Metadata  Web application configuration  Upload limits  Permission policies  Solution Deployment  EXE and MSI deployments

 Anatomy  Deployment Master Script  Variables  Initiates Logging  Step-By-Step Deployment  Directions and Documentation  Shared Functions File  Updates not to be done across scripts  Managed by platform team  Steps

 Documentation  Provide overall Guidelines  Basic usage, functionality  Naming of scripts  How scripts are used  How to use basic functions  How to run steps

 Documentation  Function Reference  Copy of Functions script

 Documentation  Script Samples  Helps with buy-in  Gives examples  Re-usable snippets

 Handle all configuration via XML file variables  Export steps to their own scripts  Manage entirely through SharePoint Lists  Additional steps can be scripted/approved through workflow?  Host documentation and example scripts in SharePoint, allow alerts for file changes

 What is COM?  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component_Object_Model  What is WMI?  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Management_Instrumentation  PowerShell for SharePoint References  2010: http://go.gvaro.net/XgmYCk  2013: http://go.gvaro.net/YBLtGW  Cmdlet Index  2010: http://go.gvaro.net/WHh5wD  2013: http://go.gvaro.net/151DGaX

 Windows PowerShell for SharePoint Command Builder  http://go.gvaro.net/WS4s3u  Gary Lapointe’s PowerShell cmdlets  http://go.gvaro.net/YirJau  AutoSPInstaller  http://autospinstaller.codeplex.com

 Meets 2nd Wednesday/month  6-8PM  Microsoft N.E.R.D. (Cambridge)  BostonSharePointUG.org  Twitter: @BASPUG / #BASPUG  SPTechCon Hosted Meeting in August!

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