1. SharePoint Saturday Advanced PowerShell for remote SharePoint administration & inspection
Slide Summary:
Perpetual Reality, who we are, and why we exist
Index of what we’ll cover
Content and Demos
Contact Info and Survey

2. Who we are: Why we exist:
Perpetual Reality is comprised of a core team of Architects, Developers, and Administrators with a perpetual focus on making our customers successful SharePoint platform implementations and customizations a reality.
We believe in delivering quality products and services that enable rapid code development, delivery and reusable distribution at massive scale.
With over a 15 years of experience in custom development and implementation methodologies, spanning every version of the SharePoint platform architectures, our Enterprise & Cloud Architecture practice has ‘blead in the trenches’ with the various prescribed methods over the years.
We strive to empower a simplified implementation methodology based on future focused SharePoint customization leveraging familiar tooling and CDN technology models.
We believe that the SharePoint technology space lacked offerings to meet our clients integration services and capabilities for platforms such as Office365, Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Analytics and Compute platforms.
Amongst countless integrated products and technologies, Perpetual Reality leads the space with simplified and accessible implementation tactics on a wide variety of SharePoint platform architectures.
As such, we help our clients achieve their vision through proper platform architecture and scalable integrated design to meet their needs today
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3. SESSION INDEX: What we’ll cover today
Advanced PowerShell for remote SharePoint administration & inspection
“PowerShell runs fine on my server” – maybe not any more
Discussion of remote PowerShell paradigms
Discussion of use cases for remote PowerShell models and execution roles
Methods to GET & SET SharePoint information without PSSession
“Holy Memory Bank, Batman!” – That can be a lot of data how do we deal?
“Holy Caffeine, Batman!” – Now we’re speeding things up a bit!
“Holy Wernher von Braun, Batman!” – Who ordered this rocket fuel !?!?!?!
Q&A

4. “PowerShell runs fine on my server”
Which version are we talking about ???
“PowerShell runs fine on my server”
Some of the more robust internal operational teams, and
numerous cloud hosting providers allow their
clients the ability to remote Desktop to
a machine(s) in an IaaS model
“PowerShell runs ‘fine’ on my server”
Some environments allow their admins access to run administrative
automation but jobs are found to be slowing down
as the content and storage grow or environment
complexity increases
“PowerShell runs fine on my server”
Security organizations in MANY environments enforce a hardening in layers model all the way to the individual server
level commonly blocking ports and script
execution & management capabilities
“PowerShell runs on the server ?????”
With an increasing mandate that administrative tasks be run in remote secure session or via API, new and
expansive methodologies are now
available to the ITPro and Admin
roles providing automation not
commonly explored before.
Many companies are beginning to lock this down, at least to isolated management machines or IP subnets
Blocking of ports, scripts, is common but also locking down Execution Policy, (that thing we all turn off immediately)
Enough said on timing
Don’t forget the cloud
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5. “Discussion of the Remote PowerShell paradigms”
Define ‘Remote’
On-Prem
IaaS
SP Management Shell
PSSession
SPO Management Shell
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6. “Discussion of use cases for remote PowerShell models”
“… and execution roles”
On-Prem
IaaS
Common Use Cases
Common Use Cases
Database management
Upgrades
Server Management
Provisioning
Services Management
Content Discovery
Security Management
Content Inventory
Content Management
Limited Services Management
? Upgrades ?
Security Management
? Provisioning ?
Content Management
Content Discovery
Content Inventory
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7. “Methods to GET & SET SharePoint information without PSSession”
Wait you said without PSSession?
On-Prem
IaaS
Methods to gather SPData remotely
Methods to gather SPData remotely
Remote Desktop + SPManagement Shell
Enter-PSSession
Web Services
SPO Management Shell
Web Services
SEARCH
Graph API
SEARCH
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8. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” - Walt Disney
DEMO TIME
“PowerShell runs fine on my server”
“PowerShell runs ‘fine’ on my server”
“You get a DEMO!”
“You get a DEMO!”
“PowerShell runs fine on my server”
“PowerShell runs on the server ?????”
“You get a DEMO!”
“You get a DEMO!”
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9. “Holy Memory Bank, Batman!”
That can be a lot of data how do we deal?
On-Prem
IaaS
Not all Objects are alike
Be careful how you cast objects, data, and nested collections to memory.
Object attributes can be addressed without caching the object
XML and JSON data structures cast in different ways have different memory impact
Common Memory management tactics
FAT
SPObjects
SOAP WebSVC/XML
THIN
SPObject Attributes
REST WebSVC/JSON
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10. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” - Walt Disney
#DEMODAY
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11. “Holy Caffeine, Batman!”
Now we’re speeding things up a bit!
On-Prem
IaaS
Collections are not created equally
Be careful how you collect and enumerate objects, data, or nested collections
Leverage .NET collections and methods for enumeration and disposal
Ensure your collections are of attributes or data for optimal performance
Be sure to .Update() changes to SPObjects when enumerating collections especially in remote sessions
Common Memory management tactics
FAT
Unmanaged Arrays
THIN
.NET Queues
.NET Hash tables
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12. “It's kind of fun to do the impossible.” - Walt Disney
Demo the Queue
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13. “Holy Wernher von Braun, Batman!”
Who ordered this rocket fuel !?!?!?!
Memory Management and Performance tactics
FAT
Undisposed Objects & Script Blocks
Single collections or enumerations
THIN
Jobs (maybe with Script Blocks)
Parallel collections/processes
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14. “Do your best work, then try to trump it.” - Walt Disney
#DEMODAY
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15. THANK YOU! rrtoland @rrtoland rrtoland@gmail.com
For further training or information on this
and many other topics, feel free to reach out at:
rrtoland
@rrtoland
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