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Side notes for SharePoint and O365 developers from #MSIgnite

Michael (Mike) Kaufmann

I’m not trying to cover all relevant aspects of SharePoint announcements that are made the last days on Microsoft Ignite – I’m sure you’re all following it closely. I just want to highlight the most important aspects for SharePoint developers and the impact they have on my work. Provisioning Engine The Office365 Developer Patterns and Practices group announced a provisioning engine for provisioning SharePoint artifacts (sites, lists, fields, content types etc.). It takes a xml file with a custom syntax as the input and provisions the content using the API. It also works both ways – you can use the … Continue reading Side notes for SharePoint and O365 developers from #MSIgnite

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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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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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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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How to get SharePoint developers to automate deployments

Michael (Mike) Kaufmann

In every environment you need to automate the deployment process for SharePoint solutions – weather they’re sandboxed solutions, farm solutions or apps. But developers are lazy – and it’s so easy to click “Deploy” in VS that normally the deployment scripts are poorly tested. To get the developers to use and test the deployment scripts you have to integrate them in visual studio. If you use PowerShell scripts for your deployments and always place them in the same location this is pretty easy. You can add the scripts as “External Tools” and then add them to the context menu. To … Continue reading How to get SharePoint developers to automate deployments

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SPEmulators v1.1.0 available

Michael (Mike) Kaufmann

I just released the new Version (v1.1.0) of the #SPEmulators on nuget. The release contains the following changes: Support for test projects that target .net 4.5 (previous 4.5.1) Support for VS Premium with version 2012 Update 2 or higher (thanks to Tiliavir for the support) The assembly is now signed Added support to create lists by schema.xml and elements.xml to GetOrCreateList The last feature is quite experimental. There is support for fields (text, number, date, user, lookup) from schema.xml. There is also support for the basic properties in the elements.xml. I also added support for default data that is deployed … Continue reading SPEmulators v1.1.0 available

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SPEmulators available on nuget

Michael (Mike) Kaufmann

Every SharePoint developer that does TDD is desperately waiting for Microsoft to release a Version of the Microsoft.SharePoint.Emulators for SharePoint 2013. Unfortunately it seems that Microsoft does not have any plans to publish a new release in the near future. This is completely incomprehensible since there are a lot of SP2010 solutions that must be migrated to SP2013. To close the gap there is now the the nuget package SPEmulators. The source code is available in a repository on GitHub. Installation To install SPEmulators, run the following command in the Package Manager Console: Install-Package SPEmulators. You can also search for … Continue reading SPEmulators available on nuget

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SPEmulators auf NuGet verfügbar

Michael (Mike) Kaufmann

Eine lange Zeit nun warten die SharePoint-Entwickler auf eine neue Version der Microsoft.SharePoint.Emulators für SharePoint 2013. Leider scheint Microsoft aber in absehbarer Zukunft keine neue Version herauszubringen. Das ist völlig unverständlich, da es ja auch viele 2010er Lösungen gibt, die nach 2013 migriert werden müssen. Um die Lücke zu schließen gibt es jetzt das Nuget-Package SPEmulators. Der Code ist auf GitHub verfügbar. Installation Die Installation erfolgt wie immer per Package-Manager-Console mit dem Befehl: “Install-Package SPEmulators”. Alternativ kann über “Manage NuGet Packages” nach dem Paket gesucht werden. Ein Klick auf “Install” fügt das Paket dem aktuelle Projekt hinzu. Erstellen des ersten … Continue reading SPEmulators auf NuGet verfügbar

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Import von Profilbildern aus einem Fileshare direkt in den SharePoint

Michael (Mike) Kaufmann

Normalerweise ist der übliche Weg die Profilbilder direkt über das AD in den SharePoint zu snychronisieren: In manchen fällen ist das aber nicht möglich, da die Bilder nicht im AD vorgehalten werden sollen. In diesem Fall muss der Import dazu also direkt erfolgen: Bei einem Kunden ist der Fileshare sogar das führende System. Es wird also eine Synchronisation zwischen dem Fileshare und SharePoint benötigt. Das Passende Skript kann im Skript-Galerie heruntergeladen werden: http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Sync-profile-pictures-from-c6d7608a Das Skript wird wie folgt aufgerufen: Folgende Parameter werden verwendet: -path: Der Pfad zu dem Fileshare -url: Die URL des MySite-Hosts -userProfilePropertyName: Der Name der Eigenschaft des … Continue reading Import von Profilbildern aus einem Fileshare direkt in den SharePoint