Sundar Narasiman's Random Musings on .NET and SharePoint : SharePoint Administration

Script to automate the installation of wsp and activation of features

lavssun — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:28:00 GMT

This post is regarding the usage of a simple script to automate the wsp installation and featue activation. Whenever we want to deploy components like custom web parts, custom user control and custom application pages etc. we use sharepoint solution packages for deployment and then we activate the respective features manually. It is a tediou job to install the wsps and activate the features manually, if we have multiple solution packages to be deployed. To automate this, we can use the the following script to install wsp and activate features.

:begin
@echo off


set solutionName=SampleSolution
set featureSampleFeature1=SampleFeature1




rem ** Replace this value with the URL of your site **
@set url=http://yourserver/sites/rootsite/subsite


@set PATH=C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN;%PATH% 



stsadm -o retractsolution   -name %solutionName%.wsp -immediate
stsadm -o execadmsvcjobs 
stsadm -o deletesolution -name %solutionName%.wsp -override


echo Adding solution %solutionName% to solution store...
echo ----------------------------------------------------

stsadm -o addsolution -filename %solutionName%.wsp
if errorlevel == 0 goto :deploySolution


echo ### Error adding solution %solutionName%
echo .
goto end

:deploySolution
echo Deploying solution %solutionName%...
echo ----------------------------------------------------
stsadm -o deploysolution -name %solutionName%.wsp -url %url% -immediate -allowGacDeployment -allowCasPolicies  -force
stsadm -o execadmsvcjobs 


if errorlevel == 0 goto :activateFeature

echo ### Error deploying solution %solutionName%
echo .
goto end



:activateFeature


echo Activating features in solution %solutionName%...
echo ----------------------------------------------------

stsadm -o activatefeature -name %featureSampleFeature1% -url %url% -force

if errorlevel == 0 goto :success

echo ### Error activating features
echo .
goto end


:success
echo Successfully deployed solution and activated feature(s)..
echo .
goto end

:end
pause

In the above mentioned script, you can replace the solutionName with the name of your WSP and SampleFeature1 with the name of your feature to be activated. In this example, i'm activating a single feature.

You can also mention multiple features in the script, so that multiple feature gets activated using this script.

Script to retract sharepoint solution package (wsp) and deactivate features

lavssun — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:38:00 GMT

The following snippet contains the script to retract sharepoint solution packages and de-activate features. This would be become handy to the sharepoint adminstrators, when they want to retract multiple solution packages (wsp) and de-activate multiple features.

:begin
@echo off

rem ** declare the solution to be retracted **
set solutionName=SampleSolution

rem ** declare the set of fetures to be de-activated **
set featureSampleFeature1=SampleFeature1
set featureSampleFeature2=SampleFeature2
set featureSampleFeature3=SampleFeature3

rem ** Replace this value with the URL of your site **
@set url=http://servername/sites/sitecollectioname/sitename

@set PATH=C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN;%PATH%

echo deactivating features in solution %solutionName%...
echo ----------------------------------------------------

stsadm -o deactivatefeature -name %featureSampleFeature1% -url %url% -force
stsadm -o deactivatefeature -name %featureSampleFeature2% -url %url% -force
stsadm -o deactivatefeature -name %featureSampleFeature3% -url %url% -force

echo Attempting to uninstallfeature and retract solution
echo ---------------------------------------------------

echo Rectracting solution %solutionName% from solution store...

stsadm -o retractsolution -name %solutionName%.wsp -immediate
stsadm -o execadmsvcjobs

echo Deleting solution %solutionName% from solution store...
stsadm -o deletesolution -name %solutionName%.wsp -override
echo.

if errorlevel == 0 goto :success
:success
echo Successfully deployed solution and activated feature(s)..
echo .
goto end

:end
pause

Catastrophic backup restore through stsadm

lavssun — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:08:00 GMT

Scenario

Is it possible to perform catastrophic backup and restore through stsadm command line utility?

Solution

Yes, this can be performed with the help of stsadm command line utility itself. The following would do a complete farm-level catastrophic backup

stsadm -o backup -directory file://backupservernetbiosname/backupsharename -backupmethod full

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/f01916b3-1fe8-4ddd-bade-d5d0fdaa1ffe1033.mspx?mfr=true

http://mindsharpblogs.com/ben/archive/2006/09/19/1292.aspx

If the backup restore strategy needs to be comprehensive, the IIS Metabase also needs to be considered

http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/01/02/relationship-between-the-iis-metabase-and-sharepoint-configuration-database.aspx

Remove SharePoint 2003 from Server

lavssun — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:50:00 GMT

Scenario

There is a server running SharePointPortalServer 2003. It has many web applications running SharePoint sites. How to remove SharePoint from just one web application?

Solution

The unextend functionality of stsadm.exe can be used to remove SharePoint from the selected IIS web application

stsadm.exe -o unextendvs -url <url> -deletecontent

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/f057d1e5-f8b7-4c92-bb98-3f983df2a2d11033.mspx?mfr=true
http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/WSS/en/library/c3314243-a583-4e62-a49a-baf706da97401033.mspx

If SharePoint needs to be completely removed from the server, the SharePoint server needs to be un-installed and the other components like indexes, database also need to be removed