Create a Blueprint of your SharePoint Farm using PowerShell
Corey BurkePrincipal Architect – Rackspace Hosting
About Me• Architect, trainer, speaker and Manager of the SharePoint Hosting Services team at Rackspace: The
Open Cloud Company in the UK• Contributing author - Professional SharePoint 2013 Administration • Technical Editor - Beginning SharePoint 2013: Building Business Solutions• Contact Me:
• Email• [email protected]
• Blog• http://blog.sharepoint-voodoo.net
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• Find me on LinkedIn• http://uk.linkedin.com/in/cburke007/
About Rackspace
• The largest collective team of SharePoint MVPs.
• The largest collection of published SharePoint authors.
• The most published SharePoint books. (23 and counting)
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• Over 1,000,000 dedicated seats.
• The most 'Microsoft Hosting Partner of the Year' awards (4)
• The only company with Fanatical Support®
(As stated by Microsoft at the 'Worldwide Hosting Summit', May 23rd, 2013.)
Agenda• PowerShell & XML• Creating an XML structure• Mining SharePoint for configuration data• Reading & Writing XML• Mining the output XML for data• Usage scenarios
Why XML?• Natively supported by PowerShell and .NET• Lightweight/Portable• Easy to update by hand• Relational (Hierarchically)• Widely compatible
• Loading SharePoint Assemblies• 2007
• 2010/2013
Priming PowerShell for .NET
• 2007
• 2010/2013
Instantiating Objects
• Two most important CMDLets in PowerShell– Get-Help– Get-Member
Going Deeper into PS Objects
• Create the XML variable• Query your desired data• Select the XML Node where you want to insert data• Create a new Element and set any desired attributes• Append the new Element to the selected Node in the
XML Variable
Writing XML
Creating the XML object
Get the local Farm object
Saving the XML to a file
Reading XML from a File
Get Web App Data
Finding Data in XML
Searching XML with XPath
Get Alternate Access Mappings
Get Content Database Data
Get Service App Data
Display Web App Config Data
Display Databases for Web App
• Incorporate the XML output into an automated install script (AutoSPInstaller?)
• Use the XML as a data source in SharePoint• File it away for rebuilds or migrations
Where can you go from here?
• We covered– Gathering useful information from SharePoint– Storing that information in XML– Retrieving Information from XML– Using the output XML in an example scenario
Summary
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