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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

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Moving from PowerShell DSC to Release Management vNext DSC

Michael (Mike) Kaufmann

If you’ve learned plain PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) and then move to Visual Studio Release Management vNext there are a lot of gotchas that can cost you many hours or event days to figure them out. I thought I share some things I’ve learned the hard way to get people up and running more quickly. If you use plain DSC you normally have one structural configuration for the entire environment and an environment specific configuration that you change for each environment. Environment Configuration(Dev/Test/Prod) $TargetFolder = “C:\inetpub\wwwroot\Demo”$WebServerCount = 2 .psd1 Structural Configuration WindowsFeature IIS{    Name = “Web Server”    Ensure = … Continue reading Moving from PowerShell DSC to Release Management vNext DSC

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Add ApplicationInsights to your O365 SharePoint sites

Michael (Mike) Kaufmann

If you use ApplicationInsights in your SharePoint Apps you might also want to include it in all sites of the hosting web. You can do this by injecting the corresponding JavaScript using the client side object model (CSOM) and UserCustomActions. Go to https://portal.azure.com/ and open your ApplicationInsights-Application or create a new one. Go to “Quick start” – “Get code to monitor my web pages” and copy the code insight the script tags. Save the script to a JavaScript file and upload it to your O365 site (i.e. to /Style%20Library). Use the following PowerShell script to inject the JavaScript file without … Continue reading Add ApplicationInsights to your O365 SharePoint sites

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xSharePointAdministration Module – PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC)

Michael (Mike) Kaufmann

Today I added the first version of the PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) Module xSharePointAdministration to the Script Center. The module contains resources to configure and deploy SharePoint environments. The current version has only limited resources. I will add more resources in the near future since I have some projects that will build upon the module. The goal is to provision a complete SharePoint farm using DSC so that you can easily deploy it to different environments – either in the cloud or on premise – and avoid the configuration shift that normally takes place after some time between test, … Continue reading xSharePointAdministration Module – PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC)

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Agile Entwicklung mit TFS 2013 und der Scrum Prozessvorlage – Part 1

Michael (Mike) Kaufmann

Der Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2013 zusammen mit Visual Studio unterstützt Sie bei der agilen Planung und Entwicklung einer Lösung mit Scrum. Ich zeige Ihnen die neuen Features und wie sie im Prozess eingesetzt werden können. Scrum ist der De-Facto-Standard bei den agilen Entwicklungsmethoden. In den Schulungen und Kursen wird immer noch viel mit Flipcharts und Whiteboards gearbeitet. Dies ist zwar sehr haptisch und mag pädagogisch sinnvoll sein – in der Praxis hat es aber mehr Nach- als Vorteile. So eignen sich Whiteboards nicht für die Verwendung in agilen Teams, die Archivierung ist nur bedingt möglich und eine langfristige Zuordnung … Continue reading Agile Entwicklung mit TFS 2013 und der Scrum Prozessvorlage – Part 1