Office 365 Engage 2017 Session

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How to Automate SharePoint
Provisioning with PNP Framework
Knut Relbe-Moe,
Product Evangelist & Partner Manager, Valo Intranet

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Office Server & Services MVP
Nintex vTE (Virtual Technical Evangelist)
SharePoint evangelist, mentor, speaker
Migration Expert
Educator for Glasspaper
Microsoft Certified Trainer
Product Evangelist & Partner Manager Valo
Intranet Box
Knut Relbe-Moe
knut@valointranet.com
https://linkedin.com/in/shareptkarm@shareptkarm

3. 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)

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

5. Moving parts

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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

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PnP Provisioning Engine Main Features
• SP2013, SP2016 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 Looks
• 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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How to Use Google Analytics with Power BI to Get Usage Statistics from an Intranet | Knut Relbe-Moe | June 22nd
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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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https://twitter.com/sahilmalik/status/700297537174032384

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Templates
• Templates are XML
• PnP provisioning schema covers most
artifacts you can deploy declaratively with
WPSs
• Can be exported!

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Exporting templates
• Use PnP PowerShell to do exports:
• Get-PNPProvisioningTemplate
• Tip #1 use the Handlers parameter in order to
only export the parts you want, e.g.
ContentTypes
• Tip #2 run the following command before an
export (or import) with powershell in order to
get more logging
Set-PNPTraceLog –On –Level Debug

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How to Use Google Analytics with Power BI to Get Usage Statistics from an Intranet | Knut Relbe-Moe | June 22nd
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Importing templates
• Use PnP PowerShell to do exports:
• Get-PNPProvisioningTemplate
• Tip #1 use the Handlers parameter in order to
only export the parts you want, e.g.
ContentTypes

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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">
•

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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>

15. aka.ms/OfficeDevPnP

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How to Use Google Analytics with Power BI to Get Usage Statistics from an Intranet | Knut Relbe-Moe | June 20, 2017 - 13:55 - 14:15
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Knut Relbe-Moe
knut@valointranet.com
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