The document discusses automating SharePoint provisioning using the PnP provisioning engine, which is an open-source framework designed for efficient remote provisioning. It offers various features such as automated template generation, support for XML and JSON formats, and capabilities for managing site artifacts. The session provided insights into cmdlets for exporting and importing templates, as well as the use of resource files for localization.

1. How to Automate SharePoint Provisioning with PNP
Framework
Knut Relbe-Moe
CTO Knowledge People AS
Product Evangelist & Partner Manager Valo

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Office Server & Services MVP
Nintex vTE (Virtual Technical Evangelist)
SharePoint evangelist, mentor, speaker
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Knut Relbe-Moe
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https://linkedin.com/in/shareptkarm@shareptkarm

3. Thanks to the Sponsors!

4. What is the PnP Provisioning Engine?
• 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 SiteTemplate Generation/Extraction
• Available in Microsoft .NET
• There are PowerShell extensions for common tasks
• Supports templating of sites and artifacts
• Reusable, updatable (delta handling)

5. Long story short…
• The PnP provisioning engine wraps CSOM and makes deployment
and maintenance a breeze
• 100% reliant on CSOM (client side and managed)

6. Moving parts

7. PnP Provisioning Cmdlets
• Get-PnPProvisioningTemplate
• Apply-PnPProvisioningTemplate
• Get-PnPProvisioningTemplateFromGallery
• Add-PnPFileToProvisioningTemplate
• Convert-PnPFolderToProvisioningTemplate
• Load-PnPProvisioningTemplate
• New-PnPProvisioningTemplate
• New-PnPProvisioningTemplateFromFolder
• Remove-PnPFileFromProvisioningTemplate
• Save-PnPProvisioningTemplate
• Set-PnPProvisioningTemplateMetadata

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

9. Using resource files
• Create resource files for every language you want to support and use
the same names for the entries

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11. Templates
• Templates are XML
• PnP provisioning schema covers most artifacts you can deploy
declaratively withWPSs
• Can be exported!

12. Exporting templates
• Use PnP PowerShell to do exports:
• Get-PNPProvisioningTemplate
• Get-PNPProvisioningTemplate -Out C:ESPCtestprovisioning.xml
• Tip run the following command before an export (or import) with powershell
in order to get more logging
Set-PNPTraceLog –On –Level Debug

13. Importing templates
• Use PnP PowerShell to do imports:
• Apply-PNPProvisioningTemplate -Path c:espctestprovisioning.xml
• Apply to a subsite and not a root site:
• Apply-PNPProvisioningTemplate -Path c:ESPCtestprovisioning.xml -Web
/subsite

14. Using Resource Files
• <?xml version="1.0"?>
<pnp:Provisioning xmlns:pnp="…">
<pnp:Preferences Generator="…" />
<pnp:Localizations>
<pnp:Localization LCID="1033" Name="English"
ResourceFile="SiteTemplate-en.resx"/>
<pnp:Localization LCID="1043" Name="Dutch"
ResourceFile="SiteTemplate-nl.resx"/>
</pnp:Localizations>
<pnp:Templates ID="CONTAINER-TEMPLATE-
8C075A44E60F4E82B8F013637DB1E654">
•

16. Using Resource Files
#
• <pnp:Templates ID="…">
• <pnp:ProvisioningTemplate ID="…" Version="1">
• <pnp:Lists>
• <pnp:ListInstance Title="{resource:ContactsListTitle}"
Description="Use the Contacts list …" DocumentTemplate=""
OnQuickLaunch="true" TemplateType="105" Url="Lists/contacts"
MinorVersionLimit="0" MaxVersionLimit="0"
DraftVersionVisibility="0" TemplateFeatureID="00bfea71-7e6d-
4186-9ba8-c047ac750105" EnableFolderCreation="false">
• <pnp:Views>

17. aka.ms/OfficeDevPnP

18. Thanks to the Sponsors!

19. Thank you
With ♥ fromValoTeam

20. Questions? | ThankYou
Knut Relbe-Moe
knut@valointranet.com
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