Gathering Requirements for SharePoint 2013

The implementation of Microsoft SharePoint 2013 will be conducted in several distinct phases that include:

• Discover and Refine Requirements
• Analyze and Prioritize Requirements
• Design a Solution That Meets the Requirements
• Govern Solution Delivery, Operation, and Maintenance

This document will cover the first phase: Discover and Refine Requirements. In order to be successful in the planning of Microsoft SharePoint, we will focus on gathering requirements that focus on these key areas:

• Understanding the Minimum Hardware Requirements
• Understanding BCM Options
• Planning a Successful SharePoint Solution Strategy
• Planning a Governance Strategy
• Planning the Information Architecture
• Discovery of Business Processes that will use Microsoft SharePoint 2010
• Understanding the Security Requirements
• Understanding the Business Intelligence Requirements
• Understanding how the Role of the Office Client
• Understanding the Business Continuity Requirements
• Understanding of Performance and Reliability Requirements

We will break down each of these sections in hopes of capturing all of the requirements in the planning phase as to alleviate any confusion or exclusion of the requirements.

 

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Automating SharePoint 2010

After a long break from blogging,  Automating SharePoint 2010 with Windows PowerShell 2.0 is now complete and is scheduled to hit your local bookstore on June 28th, 2011.

Back Cover …

With SharePoint 2010’s PowerShell cmdlets, you can automate or manipulate almost every aspect of the SharePoint platform. Learn how to take full advantage of all this timesaving technology with the tips and techniques in this practical guide. Packed with step-by-step instructions, real-world examples, and best practice recommendations, this book gets you thoroughly up to speed on Windows PowerShell 2.0 features and SharePoint’s PowerShell implementation, saving you time and effort on tasks you do every day. Coverage includes:

• Understanding what you need to know about Windows PowerShell syntax, structure, and usage
• How to automate every aspect of a SharePoint 2010 installation, upgrade, and deployment
• Managing Web Applications, Site Collections, security, and Solution Packages
• How to automatically provision and configure virtually every Service Application
• Backing up, restoring, and optimizing the performance of your SharePoint environment
• Advanced topics such as remote administration and multi-tenancy
• Creating custom cmdlets, type extensions, and views to make you even more productive (available as downloadable PDF)

SharePoint 2010 and the Site Directory

 

You may have noticed that Central Administration offers you a screen to configure a master Site Directory in SharePoint 2010, but it does not give you the ability to create a site based off of this template through the UI. It appears that this functionality has been removed and is only available under the covers to support SharePoint 2007 upgrades that had this template included.

Once again…. PowerShell comes to the rescue. You can create a Site Directory using the following code snippet.

#———————————————————————————–

# Set the variables

$siteURL = “http://lab.ps4sp.com/sites/directory”

$owner = “PS4SPShannon”

$secondOwner = “PS4SPAdministrator”

$template = “SPSSITES#0”

$description = “This site directory was built using PowerShell.”

$name = “Site Directory”

# Create the Site Directory

New-SPSite $siteURL -OwnerAlias $owner -SecondaryOwnerAlias $secondOwner -name $name -Template $template -Description $description

#———————————————————————————–

Once you have your site directory created, you can then use PowerShell to configure your master Site Directory with the following code snippet.

#———————————————————————————–

# Set Site URL

$siteURL = “http://lab.ps4sp.com/sites/directory”

# Site Directory Requirements can be one of the following:

# SiteDirectoryCatsOptional, OneSiteDirectoryCatMandatory, or AllSiteDirectoryCatMandatory

$requirements = “AllSiteDirectoryCatMandatory”

#Enforce Listings?

$enforce = $true

# Need to get site and web IDs

$site = get-SPSite $siteURL

$web = get-SPWeb $siteURL

# Get the farm

$farm = get-SPFarm

# Get the Site Directory fromn the Portal Service

$ps = $farm.Services | where {$_.GetType().Name -eq “PortalService”}

$ps.MasterSiteDirectoryLocation = $siteURL

$ps.MasterSiteDirectorySiteId = $site.ID

$ps.MasterSiteDirectoryWebId = $web.ID

$ps.EnforceNewListingForSites = $enforce

$ps.SiteDirectoryEntryRequirements = $requirements

$ps.Update()

$site.Dispose()

$web.Dispose()

#———————————————————————————–

Configuring Content Deployment Settings

SharePoint 2010 provides many new cmdlets that let you interact and configure content deployment settings. These new cmdlets include the following:

• New-SPContentDeploymentJob
• Start-SPContentDeploymentJob
• Get-SPContentDeploymentPath
• Set-SPContentDeploymentPath
• Remove-SPContentDeploymentPath
• Set-SPContentDeploymentJob
• Get-SPContentDeploymentJob
• Remove-SPContentDeploymentJob

You can read up on content deployment and these cmdlet here. The cmdlet that you will find are related to Content Deployment Paths and Jobs. While these work very well and are easy to use, they are only part of the story. To fully configure Content Deployment, you need to set the ‘Accept Content Deployment Jobs’. SharePoint does not give you a cmdlet for these properties.

The code snippet below provides settings for content deployment within the same farm. If you wish to deploy content to another SharePoint farm, modify the ExportWebServer property below.

# Set the variables

$acceptJobs = $true

$secureConnection = $false

$tempFolder = “C:ProgramDataContentDeployment”

$ImportWebServer = “PS-SPS”

$exportWebServer = “PS-SPS”

$reportsPerJob = 20

$pollingInterval = 10

$fileMaxSize = 10

$blockMultiple = $true

# Get an instance of the ContentDeploymentConfiguration object and set the properties

$cs =[Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Administration.ContentDeploymentConfiguration]::GetInstance()

$cs.AcceptIncomingJobs = $acceptJobs

$cs.RequiresSecureConnection = $secureConnection

$cs.TemporaryFolder = $tempFolder

$cs.ImportWebServer = $importWebServer

$cs.ExportWebServer = $exportWebServer

$cs.DefaultReportsPerJob = $reportsPerJob

$cs.RemotePollingINterval = $pllingInterval

$cs.FileMaxSize = $fileMaxSize

$cs.BlockMultipleJobsPerPath = $blockMultiple

$cs.Update()

Modify Web Application Settings with PowerShell

 

Overview

The SharePoint Web application has a number of settings that you can customize to configure your environment the way that suits your needs best. There are a number of different group: General, Resource Throttling, Workflow, Email, etc. All of these settings can be configured through PowerShell. These settings are available through the Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPAdministrationWebApplication object. In order to modify these settings, we simply need to use the Get-SPWebApplication cmdlet and then make the changes we need. In order to save the changes, you must call the Update() method.

 

The Script

$siteURL = “http://lab.ps4sp.com”

$webApp = Get-SPWebApplication $siteURL

 

# General Settings

$webApp.DefaultTimeZone = 12; # Mountain Time

$webApp.PresenceEnabled = $true

$webApp.AlertsEnabled = $true

$webApp.AlertsMaximum = 500

$webApp.SyndicationEnabled = $true

$webApp.MetaWeblogEnabled = $false

$webApp.MetaWeblogAuthenticationEnabled = $true

$webApp.BrowserFileHandling = [Microsoft.SharePoint.SPBrowserFileHandling]::Strict; # Permissive or Strict

$webApp.SendLoginCredentialsByEmail = $false

$webApp.MasterPageReferenceEnabled = $true

$webApp.MaximumFileSize = 100

$webApp.RecycleBinEnabled = $true

$webApp.RecycleBinCleanupEnabled = $true

$webApp.RecycleBinRetentionPeriod = 15

$webApp.SecondStageRecycleBinQuota = 25

$webApp.BrowserCEIPEnabled = $false

# Resource Throttling

$webApp.MaxItemsPerThrottledOperation = 5000

$webApp.MaxItemsPerThrottledOperationOverride = $true

$webApp.MaxItemsPerThrottledOperationWarningLevel = 2000

$webApp.MaxListItemRowStorage = 8

$webApp.MaxQueryLookupFields = 0

$webApp.DailyStartUnthrottledPrivilegedOperationsHour = 17

$webApp.DailyStartUnthrottledPrivilegedOperationsMinute = 0

$webApp.DailyUnthrottledPrivilegedOperationsDuration = 1

$webApp.IsBackwardsCompatible = [Microsoft.SharePoint.TriState]::false

$webApp.ChangeLogExpirationEnabled = $false

# Workflows

$webApp.UserDefinedWorkflowsEnabled = $true

$webApp.EmailToNoPermissionWorkflowParticipantsEnabled = $true

$webApp.ExternalWorkflowParticipantsEnabled = $false

# Email

$webApp.OutBoundMailReplyToAddress = “administrator@ps4sp.com”

$webApp.OutboundMailSenderAddress = “administrator@ps4sp.com”

$webApp.IncomingEmailServerAddress = “mail.ps4sp.com”

# Designer

$webApp.AllowDesigner = $true

$webApp.AllowRevertFromTemplate = $true

$webApp.AllowMasterPageEditing = $true

 $webApp.ShowURLStructure = $true
$webApp.Update()

Creating a Site Collection with PowerShell

Overview

Once you have your web application provisioned, you will need to create a site collection with a top level site. The New-SPSite cmdlet allows you to create a new top level site with the URL and owner specified in the –URL and –OwnerAlias. You will also notice that we have the ability to configure our tenant administration. In fact, in order to configure multi-tenants, you must use PowerShell. The site templates available in SharePoint Foundation include the following:

• STS#0   Team Site
  
• STS#1   Blank Site
  
• STS#2   Document Workspace
  
• MPS#0   Basic Meeting Workspace
  
• MPS#1   Blank Meeting Workspace
  
• MPS#2   Decision Meeting Workspace
  
• MPS#3   Social Meeting Workspace
  
• MPS#4   Multipage Meeting Workspace
  
• WIKI#0   Wiki
  
• BLOG#0   Blog
  

The Cmdlet

 

New-SPSite [-Url] <String> -OwnerAlias <SPUserPipeBind> [-AdministrationSiteType <None | TenantAdministration>] [-AssignmentCollection <SPAssignmentCollection>] [-Confirm [<SwitchParameter>]] [-ContentDatabase <SPContentDatabasePipeBind>] [-Description <String>][-HostHeaderWebApplication <SPWebApplicationPipeBind>] [-Language <UInt32>] [-Name <String>] [-OwnerEmail <String>] [-QuotaTemplate <SPQuotaTemplatePipeBind>] [-SecondaryEmail <String>] [-SecondaryOwnerAlias <SPUserPipeBind>] [-SiteSubscription <SPSiteSubscriptionPipeBind>] [-Template <SPWebTemplatePipeBind>] [-WhatIf [<SwitchParameter>]] [<CommonParameters>]

The Script

 

$siteURL = “http://lab.ps4sp.com&#8221;

$owner = “PS4SPShannon”

$secondOwner = “PS4SPAdministrator”

$template = “STS#0”

$description = “This is a sample site that was built using PowerShell.”

New-SPSite $siteURL -OwnerAlias $owner -SecondaryOwnerAlias $secondOwner -name “PowerShell for SharePoint” -Template $template -Description $description

Creating a SharePoint Web Application with PowerShell

Overview

Now that we have provisioned SharePoint and added our host ‘A’ record with PowerShell, it is time to move on to creating the Web application. Prior to creating a SharePoint site collection, you must have a web application in Internet Information Services (IIS). A web application has a content database and application pool associated with it and is assigned to one of five zones: Default, Intranet, Internet, Custom, and Extranet.

You can assign a Web application to a host ‘A’ record or use your machine name. If you plan on having more than one Web application on the same URL, you must use a different port number for the web application. In a standard web application, the port number is 80 by default. In this example, we will create a new Web application using ‘lab.ps4sp.com’ on port 80. We will also use Classic Mode Authentication for the time being. We will change this as we get the farm up and running.

There are a number of advance configuration options here that will allow us to set up authentication and additional claims providers. We will take a look at these when we build a claims-aware web application.

Figure 1

 

The Cmdlets

 

New-SPWebApplication

This cmdlet creates a new Web application specified by the Name parameter. The user specified by the DatabaseCredentials parameter must be a member of the dbcreator fixed server role on the database server.

New-SPWebApplication -ApplicationPool <String> -Name <String> [-AdditionalClaimProvider <SPClaimProviderPipeBind[]>] [-AllowAnonymousAccess <SwitchParameter>] [-ApplicationPoolAccount <SPProcessAccountPipeBind>] [-AssignmentCollection <SPAssignmentCollection>] [-AuthenticationMethod <String>] [-AuthenticationProvider <SPAuthenticationProviderPipeBind[]>] [-Confirm [<SwitchParameter>]] [-DatabaseCredentials <PSCredential>] [-DatabaseName <String>] [-DatabaseServer <String>] [-HostHeader <String>] [-Path <String>] [-Port <UInt32>] [-SecureSocketsLayer <SwitchParameter>] [-ServiceApplicationProxyGroup <SPServiceApplicationProxyGroupPipeBind>] [-SignInRedirectProvider <SPTrustedIdentityTokenIssuerPipeBind>] [-SignInRedirectURL <String>] [-Url <String>] [-WhatIf [<SwitchParameter> ]] [<CommonParameters>]

The Script

 

$siteName = “PowerShell for SharePoint”

$port = 80

$hostHeader = “lab.ps4sp.com”

$url = “http://lab.ps4sp.com&#8221;

$appPoolName = “PS4SPAppPool”

$managedAccount = “PS4SPspservice”

$dbServer = “PS-SQL”

$dbName = “PS4SP_SP2010_LAB_ContentDB”

$allowAnonymous = $true

$authenticationMethod = “NTLM”

$ssl = $false

New-SPWebApplication -Name $siteName -Port $port -HostHeader $hostHeader -URL $url -ApplicationPool $appPoolName -ApplicationPoolAccount (Get-SPManagedAccount “$managedAccount”) -DatabaseName $dbName -DatabaseServer $dbServer -AllowAnonymousAccess: $allowAnonymous -AuthenticationMethod $authenticationMethod -SecureSocketsLayer:$ssl