Month: April 2015

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xSharePointProvisioning Module – PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC)

Michael (Mike) Kaufmann

The xSharePointProvisioning module contains DSC resources to provision SharePoint artifacts using the Client Side Object Model (CSOM). There are two versions: one for O365 and ne for SharePoint on premise. Currently the following resources are in the package: xList Ensure a list with a specific title and description at a given URL. If the list does not exist it will be created with the specified template. xField Ensure that a list at a specific url has or has not a specified field. XListItem Ensure that a list at a specific url has or has not a list item with the … Continue reading xSharePointProvisioning Module – PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC)

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Use the DSC Script resource to change the application pool identity

Michael (Mike) Kaufmann

The Desired State Configuration (DSC) module xWebAdministration does not yet support changing the identity of an application pool. There is a community fork cWebAdministration that seems to support it –  but I have not tested it yet. What I did was to use the script resource to change the identity using the module WebAdministration. This is pretty straight forward so I just share the code here. Note that after changing the identity the state of the application pool is stopped. You can use the xWebAppPool resource to start it again. Continue reading Use the DSC Script resource to change the application pool identity

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Configuring your SharePoint farm for DSC with xSharePointAdministration

Michael (Mike) Kaufmann

Getting the xSharePointAdministration module to work has a lot of gotchas. So I decided to write a separate post for it. First of all: the xSharePointAdministration module uses the PSSnapin “Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell” for all its work. It therefore must be run on only one server in the farm – this would normally be the server that hosts the central administration. I will refer to this server as the deployment server. Make sure to do all the work on the deployment server. Desired state configurations are run by the Windows Management Instrumentation (winmgmt) service. This service normally runs under the “Local System” … Continue reading Configuring your SharePoint farm for DSC with xSharePointAdministration