The document discusses the PnP Provisioning engine, which allows provisioning of SharePoint artifacts through templates. It has capabilities for delta handling between templates and sites, and supports tokens. The engine can be used via PowerShell or C# for various automation scenarios. Recent releases focus on provisioning tenant-level artifacts. It supports many artifact types and has advantages over site scripts. The document demonstrates how to provision teams and site collections using multiple access tokens.

1. PnP Provisioning Deep Dive
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4. So what is PnP Provisioning engine ?
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5. So what is PnP Provisioning engine ?
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6. Basics about the engine
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• Delta handling is a key feature of the engine
• Comes with PnP PowerShell ( for use with Azure automation, Azure
functions* etc.)
• Can be used with C# ( for Azure functions*, Azure web jobs, Provider-
hosted apps, Console apps, windows apps etc.)
• Template based
• Templates can be extracted from existing sites
• Token support
*conditions apply

7. Delta handling capability
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• Extraction
• Engine extracts the raw template
• Engine has embedded raw template of every site definition
• Engine compares raw template with embedded template
• If an artifact exists in both the places, it is removed from raw template.
• Provisioning
• If an artifact in the template exists in the site, where possible, properties will
be updated with values in the template.

8. Tokens
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9. Multiple usage scenarios
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• Replacement for content type hub
• Taxonomy synchronization
• Embedded in provisioning service
• Copying sites*
• User profile properties sync*
* In progress

10. Extracting a template
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In the upcoming releases, it will be possible:
1) To export all document library files to a provisioning template
2) To export all list items to a provisioning template
3) Maybe Flow or PowerApps as well ??

11. Template Basics
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12. Version 2019-09 and 2019-03 are MAJOR
releases of this year
These releases are now more and more focused on tenant level artifacts and
settings. It allows you to:
• Create modern site collections
• Provision taxonomy to your tenant (you
need to taxonomy admin)
• Provision themes to your tenant or sites
• Apply multiple templates to the sites
• Provision site design and site scripts
* Work in progress, support added in
schema. Not in the engine
** Tenant level artefacts do require Global
admin support
• Create Teams, team channels and tabs
• Add users to Azure AD
• Provision custom webhooks
• Approve Azure AD permissions ( for SPFx
solutions requiring access to Graph/3rd
party APIs)
• Create files and folders in OneDrive for
Business*
• Set user profile properties*
• Set Azure AD settings*
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13. Supported Artifacts
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Apps Audit Settings Classic pages
Composed
looks
Modern
themes
Content types
Custom
Actions
Fields Files Lists
Feature
activation
Navigation
Teams
Modern
header and
footer
Taxonomy Web Settings Site settings
Workflows
(classic)

14. Comparison with Site Scripts
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15. 2 ways to provision teams
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Teams – 1 (for hipsters)

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Teams – 2 (also for hipsters)

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Custom Webhooks

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User profiles

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Site Sequences

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Tenant level taxonomy

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Modern themes

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Modern themes – site collection

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Multiple template support

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Site designs and site scripts

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Storage entities, App Catalog + WebAPI
Permission and CDNs

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Modern pages and templates

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Another question time ?

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Demo - Creating Teams & Site collection:
Multiple Access tokens
• In order to connect to both SharePoint and Microsoft Graph, we need
2 access tokens
• Execute the following commandlet:
Connect-PnPOnline –Url “https://<your-tenant>” –Scopes
“Group.ReadWrite.All”,”User.ReadBasic.All”
Apply-PnPTenantTemplate –Path “template.xml”

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33. Thank you
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