Getting Started with SharePoint Patterns and Practices Provisioning Engine-SPFestDC2019

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@pgbhoyar #SharePointFestDC
Prashant G Bhoyar MVP
SharePoint Fest, Washington, DC, USA https://sharepointfest.com/DC/
03 May 2019
Getting started with the SharePoint Patterns
and Practices Provisioning Engine

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Who AM I ?
• Born and raised in India
• Came to United States of America in 2007 for studies
• University of Maryland College Park Alumni
• Co-Author of the book “PowerShell for Office 365”
• Technical Reviewer of the book “Pro : SharePoint 2013 Administration”
• Founder and Organizer of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning User Group
and DC-Metro Office 365 User Group
➢ Monthly in person & online free event
➢ https://www.meetup.com/ArtificialIntelligenceAndMachineLearning/
➢ http://www.meetup.com/DC-Metro-Office-365-User-Group/
• Organizer of
➢ Global Azure Bootcamp – Day long free event
➢ AI Fest
➢ Azure Data Fest
➢ SharePoint Saturday Baltimore (SPSBMORE)- – Day long free event
http://www.spsevents.org/city/baltimore
➢ Organizer of SharePoint Saturday DC ( SPSDC ) - Day long free event
➢ http://www.spsevents.org/city/DC/
Prashant G Bhoyar
(PGB)

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Who AM I ?
• Recipient of Antarctic Service Medal
• Microsoft MVP ( Most Valuable
Professional)
• Solution Architect at Withum Smith
and Brown PC
➢https://digital.withum.com
➢Former Portal Solutions
➢Focus on Microsoft Solutions and
Services
➢Works in Bethesda, Maryland Office
Prashant G Bhoyar
(PGB)

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About Withum Digital

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• 100 Level Session
• What is Office 365 Developers Pattern & Practices /
SharePoint PnP?
• PnP Remote Provisioning Engine
• How to get started?
• Demos
• Key Takeaways
• Q&A
Agenda

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Housekeeping
▪ Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/pgbhoyar
▪ Giveaway : PowerShell for Office 365
▪ Drop your business card
▪ Ask lot of questions

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Audience Poll

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Code samples
Guidance documentation
Monthly community calls
Case Studies
Themes
SharePoint add-ins
Microsoft Graph, Office 365 APIs etc.
Remote provisioning
Client side development
http://aka.ms/OfficeDevPnP

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What is PnP Core Component?
SP2013 on-premises
SP2016 on-premises
SP2019 on-premises
SharePoint Online

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PnP Core Component – Use cases
Authentication Manager

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▪ The preferred method of provisioning new assets in SharePoint is
remote provisioning.
▪ The benefits of remote provisioning are
• No dependency on the deployed XML files
• Instead use CSOM code to create site columns, contents types, list and
libraries
• Gives you complete control of the deployment process
• Allows for incremental updates
Why Remote Provisioning?

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▪ Open source community effort
▪ Framework for easily doing Remote Provisioning
• Part of the OfficeDev PnP Core Library
• Object Oriented engine for easy and fast Remote Provisioning
▪ Capabilities
• Automated Remote Provisioning
• Easy Site Template Generation/Extraction
• Available in Microsoft .NET
• There are PowerShell extensions for common tasks
▪ Supports templating of sites and artifacts
• Reusable, updatable (delta handling)
What is the PnP Provisioning Engine?

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PnP Provisioning Engine – Export/Import
Template site
Empty OOB site
OOB site with needed configuration

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Site Provisioning Framework
// Get template from existing site
template = ctx.Web.GetProvisioningTemplate();
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// Save template using XML provider
XMLFileSystemTemplateProvider provider =
new XMLFileSystemTemplateProvider(@"c:temp",
"");
string templateName = "template.xml";
provider.SaveAs(template, templateName);
// Load the saved model again
ProvisioningTemplate p2 =
provider.GetTemplate(templateName);
// Apply template to existing site
ctxTarget.Web.ApplyProvisioningTemplate(template);

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▪ Export/Import of artifacts and configurations
▪ Delta handling for on going maintenance
▪ Template format(ter)-independent
• XML Schema – community defined
• JSON
• Whatever else …
▪ Extensibility Model
Key Features

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Demo

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PnP PowerShell – What is it for?
SharePoint Online Cmdlets
For administrative tasks
• Creating sites
• Removing sites
• Adding users
• Creating groups
• Etc.
PnP Cmdlets
To manage artifacts in sites
• Lists
• Views
• Fields
• Upload files
• Etc.
Connect-PnPOnline -Url ‘https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/team’
New-PnPList -Title Docs -Template DocumentLibrary -Url lists/docs
Add-PnPField -List Docs -DisplayName ‘Location’ -InternalName ‘Location’ -Type Choice
-Group ‘Demo’ -AddToDefaultView -Choices ‘London’, ‘Helsinki’, ‘Stockholm’

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Demo

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▪ PnP engine provides base templates to implement ‘delta handling’
• Base templates are available for all supported O365 site definitions
• Embedded in the engine
▪ Useful to keep sites up to date with reference templates
• Do not remove/delete anything
• Just update/add
Delta Handling

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PnP Provisioning Engine Main Features
SP2013, SP2016, SP2019 and SPO
Delta templates
XML, JSON formatter
Site Columns
Content Types
Lists/Libraries Instances
Features (Site or Web)
Custom Actions (Site or Web)
Files/Pages (Wiki, WebPart)
Taxonomies
Composed Look
Site Policies
Web Settings
Regional Settings
UI Languages
Resource Files
Audit Settings
Workflows (SPD only)
Search Settings
Publishing (including Page Layouts)

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▪ In source site/template do not modify the OOTB assets like site
columns, content types, master pages and page layouts
▪ Add custom assets using Extension methods
▪ In your .NET application use logging
Best Practices-Remote Provisioning

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aka.ms/OfficeDevPnP

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▪ Sign up for Office 365 Developer
Program at http://dev.office.com/
▪ Get 1 year of Office 365
subscription for free
▪ Excellent for personal
development use
▪ 1 Month Trial
▪ https://products.office.com/en-
us/business/compare-office-365-
for-business-plans
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How to get personal Office 365
Developer Tenant?

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How to get personal Azure Subscription?
▪ If you have MSDN Enterprise subscription
▪ You can get $150/month Azure credits for free
▪ Sign Up for Free trial :
https://azure.microsoft.com/
▪ Credit Card is required
▪ Microsoft Imagine
▪ Former Dreamspark
▪ No credit card required
▪ Valid .edu account from participating
school/institution
▪ Limited feature sets

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Q&A

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Questions? Feedback? Contact me:
▪ Email: pgbhoyar@gmail.com
▪ Twitter: @PGBhoyar
▪ Blog: http://pgbhoyar.com
▪ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pgbhoyar/
▪ Slides :https://www.slideshare.net/pgbhoyar
▪ Free Consulting/ Q&A: https://pgbhoyar.com/free-question-answer-session/
▪ Feedback : Please provide feedback
▪ Event App
▪ Email
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