Hi all,
I’m a long time software developer with absolutely no experience in Sharepoint.
I have just joined a new company and I was asked by the team leader to create an installer for Sharepoint Foundation 2013 and a working Sharepoint solution made by the company, preferably using HTA.
I have experimented installing it manually and deploying the solution, however, what’s the best method to automate these two steps?
I was thinking of something like AutoSPInstaller, and after the end of the installation, I would run Add-SPSolution and Install-SPSolution commands for deploying the solution.
What do you think?
AutoSPInstaller doesn’t really work with Foundation since foundation has very limited features / powershell commands.
I would steal some powershell from AutoSPInstaller for all the stuff until configuring, but then I would do custom powershell for the service applications & Web apps & Solution deploy. Also, note there is no “supported” way of creating a search service application in Foundation by powershell. You have to use reflection to do it (google for blog posts by Jasjit Chopra or gary lapointe).
Hope it helped 🙂Â
