SharePointDSC Starter Template for SharePoint 2019

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 […]

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Use SharePointDSC to Install Language Packs

This 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 […]

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Why Use SharePointDSC

SharePointDSC is a community driven PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) module, managed on GitHub at https://GitHub.com/PowerShell/SharePointDSC and which lets you define the configuration of your SharePoint 2013, 2016 and 2019 farms using a declarative approach. Let us start by looking at a side-by-side example of how you would go about creating a new SharePoint Web […]

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Create a Term Group at the Site Collection Level

By default, when you create Groups in the Managed Metadata Service Application, they become available across the board. SharePoint however also has the concept of Site Collection groups, that are only available inside a given site collection, and not made available outside that boundary. These special groups are automatically created when you activate the managed […]

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