by Nik Charlebois
Ever since becoming a Microsoft PowerShell MVP back in the summer of 2014, I have been heavily involved with various PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) projects. The main initiative I have been involved with is the SharePointDSC module which is currently led by Brian Farnhill down in Australia. While my contributions to the core of […]
Read More Introducing Reverse DSCToday at the Ignite conference in Atlanta, Microsoft shared more information about the vision for SharePoint. With SharePoint 2016, it is now possible for organizations to obtain and enable new features within their on-premises environments through the use of “Feature Packs”. In the past, we pretty much had to wait for Service Packs to be […]
Read More SharePoint 2016 Feature PacksIn this blog, I will go through the process of upgrading your existing SharePoint 2010 farm to SharePoint 2016. Just like it has been the case with the last 3 product release cycles, there are no In-Place upgrade paths for SharePoint 2016. You basically have to build a new SharePoint 2016 SharePoint Farm, and then […]
Read More Upgrade from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2016So you heard the news? SharePoint 2016 officially hit Release Candidate (RC) yesterday, January 20th 2016. This means that we are getting really close to an RTM release. If you are like me and always want to be the first one to play with the new tools as soon as Microsoft relases them, you may […]
Read More Installing SharePoint 2016 Release Candidate (RC)In the DSC world, there are two modes: Pull or Push. The first one means that the node servers will connect to a centrally located server called the DSC Pull Server and get all the information from it. The Local Configuration Manager (LCM) component running on the nodes will ping the pull server at a […]
Read More PowerShell DSC Pull Server for SharePoint