1. Author/Tech Trainer, Pluralsight
Protecting SharePoint Server with PowerShell Desired State Configuration
Tim Warner
Author/Tech Trainer, Pluralsight
Saturday, May 14, 2016
2:55 - 3:55 PM
Room S277

2. What is the future of SharePoint? Discussion led by Jeff Teper
Jeff Teper, Microsoft Corporate Vice President of OneDrive and SharePoint, will lead us in discussing the future of the platform and then take your questions. Join us at 4pm for our final SPS Nashville session for all attendees in the State Farm room (volunteers will be providing directions to the hall).

3. Session Materials

4. Agenda Recognize the problem of configuration drift
Understand how Windows PowerShell DSC can solve the problem
Learn how to apply DSC to a SharePoint Server farm
Discover implications for Microsoft Azure (If we have time...)

5. Configuration Drift

6. Configuration Drift Ramifications
Reduced security
Compliance failures
Reduced performance
Reduced availability
SLA impacts
High cost of manual management labor

7. Configuration Management Solutions
Windows PowerShell DSC

8. Windows Powershell DSC Quick Start

9. CIM/WMI Repository

10. Programming Paradigms
Imperative
Declarative
Explicit instructions on how the program should do its work
Examples: .NET, PowerShell
"Make it so"
Examples, SQL, DSC

11. DSC High-Level Architecture
DSC is based entirely in the DMTF Common Information Model (CIM) standard
Microsoft's CIM implementation is WMI
There are lots of ways to configure a highly available pull server farm (SMB, IIS, etc.)

12. DSC Resources Building blocks of a DSC configuration
They're PowerShell modules
1 configuration per machine
Requires PowerShell v4 or v5
Built-in
Experimental ("x" resources)
Community ("c" resources)

13. Demo

14. Protect Our SharePoint Farm with DSC

15. What Can We Protect in SharePoint?
Active Directory
IIS
SQL Server
Registry
File system
Most SharePoint administrative settings

16. Demo

17. Microsoft Azure Implications

18. You can even host DSC pull servers in the Azure cloud!
This does NOT apply to the SP Online managed environment!

19. Summary
Windows PowerShell is at the center of Windows systems administration nowadays
PowerShell DSC isn't required, nor is it very mature
Part of today's "cloud cadence"/DevOps practice
Chef Software is a big Microsoft partner

20. Summary Tim Warner timothywarner316@gmail.com @TechTrainerTim
timwarnertech.com/sps2016.zip
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