Presented at the European SharePoint Conference 2014 in Barcelona (08/05/2014) Demos and Howtos will be available on my blog. See also http://www.matthiaseinig.de/2014/05/10/sessions-and-slides-from-the-espc14/ With the Cloud Services Azure and VSOnline professional SharePoint Development has never been easier. Having the infrastructure available on demand and only paying per use allows you to build complete production-like SharePoint farms in no time at minimal costs. TFS Online on the other hand provides everything you need to develop projects alone or in a team. SourceControl, WorkItems, TeamBuild, Automated Testing including the traceability of all of it and detailed reporting. Even better, with an MSDN subscription both VS Online and Azure is already included. This session explains the important bits about setting up your SharePoint farm(s) on Azure, using VSOnline to automatically build your SharePoint solution or app and what you need to automatically stage the build to your farm or SharePoint Online. Presentation Benefits: This session explains the important bits about setting up your SharePoint farm(s) on Azure, using VSOnline to automatically build your SharePoint Project and what you need to automatically stage the build to your farm. You will: Learn about how you set up continuous builds on VSOnline. Hear how you use Azure to build your SharePoint staging farm. See how everything can be connected to automatically deploy each build on the staging farm.

1. SharePoint Continuous Integration
with VSOnline & Azure
Matthias Einig, MVP

2. Who is that guy?
@spcaf
www.spcaf.com
@sp24conf
www.sp24conf.com
@spssthlm
www.spsstockholm.com
@mattein
matthias.einig@rencore.se
www.matthiaseinig.de
Matthias Einig
CEO, SharePoint MVP
Stockholm, Sweden

3. Agenda
• Continuous Integration/Delivery
• VS Online & Azure
• CD for Farm/Sandboxed Solutions
• CD for Provider Hosted Apps
• Release Management
• Summary

4. Continuous what?
Build centralized
Check Quality
Continuous
Integration
Code Quality
Build centralized
Check Quality
Deploy
Continuous
Deployment
Process Quality
Build centralized
Check Quality
Deploy
Test
Continuous
Delivery
Functional Quality

5. Why?
• Fail fast and early in the development process
• Deliver smaller increments == less defects
• Know exactly what is deployed
• Reproducable
• No dependency on specific people

6. Manual deployment
!=
Fun

7. What should be included?
Farm Solutions
Apps
Database schema
Code
WSP, App, Data, PowerShell
Farm / Site settings
Site Structure
Feature Activations
…
Configuration
Files, List Data
Taxonomies
Database Content
…
Content

8. Dev Challenges
• Deployment of SharePoint VMs time consuming, resource
and performance hungry
• Multiple environments required
(SP2010/2013, CUs/Service Packs, Websites, O365 tenants)
• Deployment/Testing requires „clean“ production-like
environment
• VMs for different versions of the own solution(s)
• Deployment process complicated and error-prone

9. The solution!
Source Control
Workitem Tracking
Project Management
Automated Build
Test Management
Analytics
…
Websites
Virtual Machines
Storage
Databases
Active Directory
Networks
…

10. Source Control
Workitem Tracking
Project Management
Automated Build
Test Management
Analytics
…
Websites
Virtual Machines
Storage
Databases
Active Directory
Networks
…

11. Why Cloud?
• Quick to set up
• Scalable
• Easy to tear down
• No IT Pros involved
• Included in MSDN subscription
• Pay per use

12. CD for Farm/SB Solutions
VSO
QADEV
DEV


13. DEMO

14. CD for Provider Hosted Apps
VSO
DEV
SPO
Dev site
Azure
Dev site

SPO
Prod site
Azure
Prod site

15. DEMO

16. CD for Farm/SB Solutions
VSO
QADEV
DEV


17. Release Management Server
TFS
QA
DEV

RM
PROD

18. Release Management 2013

19. Release Management 2013

20. Summary
• Find problems earlier and save time & money
• VS Online + Azure = perfect for SharePoint CD
• Can be implemented in several steps
• Deployment of Farm Solutions with PowerShell
• Deployment of Apps with ootb VS Online
It‘s worth it!

21. References
• SharePoint/TFS Continuous Integration Starter Pack (Chris O’Brien)
http://matte.in/SharePointCI
• Continuous Integration for SharePoint (MSDN)
http://matte.in/CI4SharePointMSDN
• SharePoint Solution Deployer
spsd.codeplex.com
• SharePoint Code Analysis Framework
spcaf.com
• Configure a TFS Build Server for SharePoint Projects (MSDN)
http://matte.in/TFSBuild4SP
• Deploying Provider Hosted SharePoint Apps to Azure (Kirk Evans)
http://matte.in/CDSPApp2Azure