SPBlaze - Automating SharePoint Deployment

Summary


SPBlaze is a generic PowerShell script library that can be used for any SharePoint deployment.  This approach is useful for automating your SharePoint deployments for Continuous Delivery in conjunction with other products like Jetbrains Team City. 

What is SPBlaze  

SPBlaze is an automated provisioning and deployment script library that consists of the following:

  • An XML Configuration file
  • A Launcher Script
  • The Main Deployment Script 

Capabilities

  • Web application provisioning 
  • Site collection provisioning
  • Activate and deactivate features (Web App, Site Collection, Site)
  • Remove and uninstall solutions
  • Install and deploy solutions
  • Run custom scripts at various times during the deployment
  • Add confirmations requests to script processing (for interactive mode only)
  • Driven by configuration in an XML file

Get SPBlaze

You can download this from codeplex as an opensource project at spblaze.codeplex.com

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