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?
HTAs are not unsupported, and Microsoft continues to use them in setup of their products (e.g. SharePoint 2013 launches an HTA on autorun).
But the idea of HTAs is a little out dated. You can do a lot of UI-based interaction with PowerShell, generating windowed prompts (e.g. choice lists or password prompts).
But given you’re using Foundation, deploying Search just isn’t going to be possible (per Vlad and your TN forum post, the only way to do so is via reflection which isn’t supported).
