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SharePoint Solutions & Features
SharePoint + PowerShell User Group
December 19, 2012
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Agenda
• Hello!
• Group Logistics (GoToMeeting/ website /
register / email / twitter)
• SharePoint Solutions & Features
• SharePoint Solution Deployer
• Next meeting
• Survey!
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Hello!
Raymond Mitchell
• SharePoint Consultant
– http://www.Rackspace.com
• Author
• Dad
• Information Worker Kid
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• SharePoSHing since 2008
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What about you?
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Solutions (.wsp)
• Deploy some stuff
– DLLs
– Files
– Features
• Pushes to multiple servers & stays in sync
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Solutions (.wsp)
• Cmdlets
– Add-SPSolution
– Remove-SPSolution
– Update-SPSolution
– Install-SPSolution
– Uninstall-SPSolution
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Solutions (.wsp)
• SPFarm.Solutions
• Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPSolution
– SolutionId
– Deployed
– DeployedServers
– DeployedWebApplications
– DeploymentStatus
– SolutionFile
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Solutions (.wsp)
• .wsp is really a .cab
• Rename and open in Windows explorer?
– Heck no, let’s use PowerShell:
$src = "c:\temp\openxmlplay.cab"
$dst = "c:\temp\solution"
$helper = New-Object -ComObject Shell.Application
$files = $helper.NameSpace($src).Items()
$helper.NameSpace($dst).CopyHere($files)
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Features
• Package up some stuff
• Scoped at a few levels:
– Farm
– Web Application
– Site
– Web
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Features
• Cmdlets
– Install-SPFeature
– Uninstall-SPFeature
– Enable-SPFeature
– Disable-SPFeature
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Features
• Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFeature
– DefinitionId
– Definition
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Features
• Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPFeatureDefinition
– DisplayName
– Hidden
– RootDirectory
– SolutionId
– GetDescription(CultureId)
– GetElementDefinitions(CultureId)
– GetXmlDefinition(CultureId)
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SharePoint Solution Deployer
• Matthias Einig (@mattein)
• The SharePoint Software Factory:
http://spsf.codeplex.com
• The SharePoint Solution Deployer:
http://spsd.codeplex.com
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Next Meeting
• Friday, January 18th
• TBD
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Resources
• PowerShell + SharePoint forum at
PowerShell.org:
– http://powershell.org/discuss/viewforum.php?f=1
2
• PowerShell Summit: April 22-24
http://powershell.org/summit
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Resources
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.shar
epoint.administration.spsolution_members(v=office.12).aspx
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/enus/library/microsoft.sharepoint.spfeature(v=office.12).aspx
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/enus/library/microsoft.sharepoint.administration.spfeaturedefiniti
on(v=office.12).aspx
• http://powershell.com/cs/blogs/tips/archive/2012/10/12/unzipping
-files.aspx
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Survey!
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