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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