SharePoint 2013 Site Provisioning with Powershell and install/upgrade App
Usually one of the biggest tasks for On-premise SharePoint development is for custom site provisioning. Clients usually want all branding, configuration, and permission hardening done automatically when the site collection or web is created. Since Microsoft has been pushing to move away from the farm solution and suggesting App Model, a lot of techniques (such as feature event receiver) that we used to depend on cannot be used anymore. It is a big change for On-premise SharePoint development. Here is an approach that I think will work for the App model to provision a site if the requirements are not crazy in customizing OOTB SharePoint behaviour. The solution will include A provisioning App that has AppInstalled event that handles the provision tasks such as branding, create/break permissions, create list/library ...etc (you can refer to another of my post about the branding such as master page and theme ) Powershell script that creates the site collection and inst...