System Center & SharePoint On- Prem Matija Blagus, Acceleratio

Grant, add Delete, remove Clone, transfer Generate entire SharePoint documentation, check the custom solutions, save farm deployment. Analyze and manage permissions live: clone, transfer, create groups, add or remove users. Monitor farm health, track changes and compare. Report on site contents and audit farm setup. One solution for all your SharePoint troubles… Farm Assessment Permissions Farm Audit Save time! Single console! Validate!

Explore and compare SharePoint Online permissions. Review all your Office 365 tenants, licenses and subscriptions. Track changes and monitor users Exchange Online data. Groups Users Administrators One tool for entire Office 365… Tenant Overview Permissions Reports Review all! Save time! Examine! Compare

Agenda Prerequirements PowerShell installation System Center Virtual Machine Manager Service Templates More automation with System Center Orchestrator

Prerequirements Hyper-V 2012 R2 up and running (or any other hypervisor compatibile with SCVMM – VMWare and Citrix) Sysprepped images of SharePoint 2013 SP1 and SQL 2012 SP1 PowerShell scripts for unattended installation User accounts in Active Directory Network share System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2 up and running Other System Center components (based on your scenario) A lot of time

Hypervisor Make sure that you follow MS guidlines for best practices for virtualization of SharePoint ( us/library/ff621103(v=office.15).aspx) us/library/ff621103(v=office.15).aspx) Use RAID 5/10 disk array for SharePoint deployments Integrate your hypervisor with SCVMM

Prepare images for template – SQL Server Install Windows Server 2012 (R2) on VM Patch with all Windows Updates Install SQL server with option Image prepare of a stand-alone SQL server Sysprep VM

Prepare images for template - SharePoint Install Windows Server 2012 (R2) on VM Patch with all Windows Updates Install SharePoint prerequirements Install SharePoint and CU DO NOT start Configuration Wizard Sysprep VM

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Active Directory accounts

PowerShell powershell-scripts/ powershell-scripts/ Will be used to install SharePoint (config wizard replacement) and to create a farm Edit xml file per your requirement Put everything on a network share (including vhdx files from previous steps)

SCVMM Service Templates Used to provision more VM’s at once Customizable way of deploying SharePoint for DEV/QA/PROD environments Multiple-tier applications

Be carefull with... Scripts timeouts Account rights Firewall Group policy on domain Max number of syspreps

More automation with System Center Orchestrator If you want more flexibility you need to add Orchestrator to the equation Used for complex scenarios Can be integrated with third-party software (Integration Packs)

Automatic testing of Applications Build ServerOrchestrator SCVMM Service Template Build Server

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Conclusion Saves a lot of time Very powerfull in combination with Orchestrator and other System Center components Can be used in various testing scenarios DEMO VMM template and scripts are here: Presentation:

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