Getting Started with Office 365 Developers Patterns and Practices Provisioning Engine SPTechCon Washington DC 2017

WithumSmith+Brown, PC | BE IN A POSITION OF STRENGTH
1
SM
Prashant G Bhoyar, MVP
SPTechCon Washington DC 2017 http://www.sptechcon.com/
15 November 2017
Getting Started with the SharePoint (Office 365)
Developer Patterns and Practices Provisioning Engine

2
SM
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”
• Organizer of SharePoint Saturday Baltimore (SPSBMORE)
 http://www.spsevents.org/city/baltimore/baltimoretecc
• Organizer of SharePoint Saturday DC ( SPSDC )
 http://www.spsevents.org/city/DC/summer2017
• Founder and Organizer of DC-Metro Office 365 User Group
 Monthly in person & online event
 http://www.meetup.com/DC-Metro-Office-365-User-Group/
• Recipient of Antarctic Service Medal
• Microsoft MVP ( Most Valuable Professional)
• Senior Consultant at Withum Smith and Brown PC
 https://digital.withum.com
 Former Portal Solutions
 Focus on Microsoft Solutions and Services
Prashant G Bhoyar
(PGB)

3
SM
Withum Microsoft Solutions and Services
3
• Modern workplace
• Office 365 Implementations/
Migrations
• Turnkey Intranet Solution
• Managed Services
• Data Analytics
• Enterprise Mobility + Security
• Business Process Automation
• Dynamics 365
• Azure

4
SM

5
SM
Audience Poll
 How many of you are IT pros?
 How many of you are Power Users?
 How many of you are Business Users?
 How many of you are Developers?
 How many of you are already using SharePoint PnP?
5

6
SM
• 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

7
SM
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

8
SM
What is PnP Core Component?
SP2013 on-premises
SP2016 on-premises
SharePoint Online

9
SM
PnP Core Component – Use cases
Authentication Manager

10
SM
 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?

11
SM

12
SM
 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?

13
SM
PnP Provisioning Engine – Export/Import
Template site
Empty OOB site
OOB site with needed configuration

14
SM
Site Provisioning Framework
// Get template from existing site
template = ctx.Web.GetProvisioningTemplate();
1
2
4
3
// 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);

15
SM
 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

16
SM
Demo

17
SM
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-SPOnline -Url ‘https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/team’
New-SPOList -Title Docs -Template DocumentLibrary -Url lists/docs
Add-SPOField -List Docs -DisplayName ‘Location’ -InternalName ‘Location’ -Type Choice
-Group ‘Demo’ -AddToDefaultView -Choices ‘London’, ‘Helsinki’, ‘Stockholm’

18
SM
Demo

19
SM
 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

20
SM
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 Look
Site Policies
Web Settings
Regional Settings
UI Languages
Resource Files
Audit Settings
Workflows (SPD only)
Search Settings
Publishing (including Page Layouts)

21
SM
 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

22
SM

23
SM
aka.ms/OfficeDevPnP

24
SM
Key Takeaways
 Hopefully the contents we covered today made you to explore
Office 365 PnP 
 Sign up for Developer Program using https://dev.office.com/
 Check out the monthly updates at
• https://dev.office.com/patterns-and-practices

25
SM

26
SM
 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
26
How to get personal Office 365
Developer Tenant?

27
SM

28
SM
28
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

29
SM
Other SPTechCon Washington DC 2017 Session
 Getting Started with SharePoint REST API in the Custom
SharePoint Workflows
• Wednesday Nov 15th 2017, 1:30pm - 2:45pm
29

30
SM
Q&A

31
SM
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
 Session Evals
 Email or
 Anonymous Suggestions: https://www.suggestionox.com/r/pgb
Thank You
Organizers, Sponsors and You for Making this Possible.

Getting Started with Office 365 Developers Patterns and Practices Provisioning Engine SPTechCon Washington DC 2017

Recommended

More Related Content

What's hot (20)

Similar to Getting Started with Office 365 Developers Patterns and Practices Provisioning Engine SPTechCon Washington DC 2017 (20)

More from Prashant G Bhoyar (Microsoft MVP) (9)

Recently uploaded (20)

Getting Started with Office 365 Developers Patterns and Practices Provisioning Engine SPTechCon Washington DC 2017