Automating SharePoint

4. > Automating SharePoint
Play nicely, mmmkay

5. All About Seb
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6. Change of Plan…

7. Change in SharePoint…

8. Change in delivery

10. Tools

12. System Center
• Application Controller
• Configuration Manager
• Data Protection Manager
• Operations Manager
• Orchestrator
• Service Manager
• Virtual Machine Manager

13. PowerShell
• Deployment
• Configuration
• Management
• Monitoring
• Administration
• Development
• …Cookery, games, etc. 

14. System Center

15. Tight Integration
• Management Packs
• Monitoring & rules
• Data Protection Manager
• Fully Supported

16. Management Packs
• Install for all components of farm
• Windows, SQL Server, IIS, SharePoint, etc.
• Require (complex) configuration
• Rules engine

17. SP2013 Management Pack

18. Loose Integration
• Service Templates (VMM)
• VHD build (SCO)
• Runbooks (SCO)
• Not supportable

19. Runbooks
• Orchestrate activities
• Full automation
• Support for script (PoSh) and code

20. Runbooks

21. Nirvana
• SCOM Alerting >
• VMM Service template >
• SCO database migration >
• SCO content database migration >
• SCO network updates >

22. PowerShell

23. Tools for “free”
• Windows PowerShell
• SQL PowerShell
• SharePoint PowerShell
• IIS PowerShell
• Etc.

24. Rules for PowerShell
• Do 1 thing at a time
• Naming is important
• Dispose
• Try {} Catch {} Finally {}
• http://bigseb.me/trycatch
• Comment
• Test

25. Stepping Out of the Box

26. SPInstallerLite
• Lightweight SharePoint install/config
• “Minature” AutoSPInstaller

27. CPU Utilisation
• $result = 1; foreach ($number in 1..2147483647) {$result = $result * $number};

28. Get-XHeaderHealth

29. Scheduled Tasks

30. Leverage Generic PowerShell

31. Wrap Up

32. Wrap Up
• System Centre
• PowerShell
• I’ll email/tweet each of you the video links

34. Thanks for being here…
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http://sebmatthews.net
@sebmatthews
Dog Dad
Father
Cloud Guy
Speaker
Husband
http://linkedin.com/in/sebmatthews
seb@appcogs.com
Microsoft