Nik Charlebois
ReverseDSC for SharePoint is getting a User Interface! That’s right, you’ve read correctly, a GUI for the script based SharePointDSC.Reverse. This GUI is completely built using PowerShell (which is part of why it looks like its 1995 all over again), so all you need to do is download the script from GitHub (soon to be […]
Read More ReverseDSC for SharePoint Gets a FaceliftI just finished presenting a session at SPTechCon Boston which I entitled “VSTS, ARM and DSC for SharePoint 2019 – A match made in heaven“. The session had a very small number of attendees, which made me wonder if the audience I was trying to target with the session even existed in modern enterprises. Off […]
Read More IT Pros Need to Get on the Software Development Lifecycle Right Now!This article provides a base template that will allow you to deploy a SharePoint 2019 farm using PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC). This article is meant to be an evolutive process, and will get updated to always reflect the latest version of the SharePointDSC module. It currently uses the v3.0-development branch that is currently in […]
Read More SharePointDSC Starter Template for SharePoint 2019My colleague and friend Brian Lalancette and I sat down and recorded an informal discussion on what the future holds for SharePointDSC and AutoSPInstaller. This recording is by no stretch of the imagination a professional podcast. Brian and I just reflected on what the upcoming release of SharePoint 2019 means for both product, and what […]
Read More PFE Ramblings: Future of AutoSPInstaller and SharePointDSCThis article covers a demo I presented at the 2018 SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas. In the real world, clients will want to automate the process of installing new Language Packs onto their SharePoint Farms, especially if those farms contain a large number of servers. The present article presents you with a fully automated process […]
Read More Use SharePointDSC to Install Language Packs