Create a copy of your SharePoint farm with SPDocKit and AutoSPInstaller

AutoSPInstaller and SPDocKitBetter together

Toni FrankolaMicrosoft MVP,

Co-founder of Acceleratio

• 16 years active in Microsoft ecosystem

• 7 years since co-founding Acceleratio

• 6 years as Microsoft MVP• MCTS: SharePoint, CRM; MCPD• Contact info: [email protected] [email protected] Twitter:

@ToniFrankola

IntroductionPresenting Toni and Acceleratio

Technology Partners

Acceleratio is a software development company based in Zagreb, Croatia, Europe founded in 2009.

We create innovative software solutions for SharePoint, Office 365, MS Windows Remote Desktop Services, and Citrix admins and consultants.

Acceleratio, Ltd

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More than 2000 customers in more than 50 countries worldwide use our products!

Acceleratio Ltd.Who are we?

Featured customers

• Housekeeping• How to Q&A?• SPDocKit Quick Overview• AutoSPInstaller Quick Overview• SPDocKit + AutoSPInstaller• Use Case• Demo• Key Takeaways• What’s new?• Q&A

AgendaOverview of the today’s webinar

SPDocKit Quick OverviewWhat is SPDocKit?

Generate entire SharePoint documentation, check the custom solutions, save farm deployment.

Monitor farm health, track changes and compare. Report on site contents and audit farm setup.

Farm Assessment

Farm Audit Save time! Get details!

Grant, addDelete, remove

Clone, transfer

Generate user and group permission reports, export them and present to your business users.

Analyze and manage permissions live: clone, transfer, create groups, add or remove users.

User Reporting PermissionsDig deep! Single

console!



Check if your SharePoint farm is configured according to the latest SP community's best practices.

Create custom reports on the SharePoint content manage or change the particular content settings.

Best PracticesKnow how! Automatic!

Governance

• AutoSPInstaller: • Awesome community project!!! (Brian Lalancette and team)• Open-source project – set of PowerShell scripts• Installs SharePoint and performs a base configuration• Single server or multiple-server farms• Input parameter is XML farm file (contains farm topology & details

about your farm)• Deployment time reduced, reusable components, create identical

production and staging/test environments

• https://autospinstaller.codeplex.com/

AutoSPInstaller Quick OverviewWhat is AutoSPInstaller?

https://autospinstaller.codeplex.com/


With AutoSPInstaller Without AutoSPInstaller


• AutoSPInstaller GUI• Windows application -

helps build configuration XML file

• Provides an interface for editing the XML file with tooltips, tabular GUI, and error checking on the inputs

• https://autospinstaller.com/

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• SPDocKit AutoSPInstaller wizard • Saves current farm setup to an XML

configuration file – used as an AutoSPInstaller input file

• Make changes to any parameter of XML file

• The easiest way to create a new SharePoint farm that is same or similar to your current farm environment

• Set up a TEST based on your current DEV, add a new QA or UAT environments with minor changes, it’s up to you!

AutoSPInstaller + SPDocKitWhat is the magic link?

Use CaseSPDocKit AutoSPInstaller Wizard

SummaryWebinar takeaways

Recreate your farms based on an „image” – a current good

setup

Use AutoSPInstaller when setting up

new environments

Create an input for

AutoSPInstaller with SPDocKit

Make changes to the farm settings

if needed to

Export your current farm

setup in an XML farm file and use it when needed

The files are reusable and can

create a # of farms

What’s new?Coming up in the next SPDocKit release

Release date: late February, 2016 New and improved Compare wizard Improved Best Practices dashboard Export and import of SPDocKit

settings enabled New query:

Find lists with more that 5000 items AutoSPInstaller wizard improvements Snapshots New dark skin

Set up your own installation options Auto retrieve of the farm account

credentials Add or remove servers – server

mapping Site Collection search Default option for share name Total sync with AutoSPInstaller -

added disable loopback check, Auto admin logon

Coming up next in SPDocKit release: New AutoSPInstaller features:

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We are working hard to deliver the best

solutions to our customers!

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