Over the last year or so many of my posts have been related to the PnP Provisioning Engine.
I’ve created multiple scripts to replicate my whole intranet from one tenant to another. I’ve set this all up in such a way that this would work for any intranet solution based on Office 365 or SharePoint on-premises solutions.
Big advantages of this solution:
- It can handle multiple pages, unlike PnP out of the box
- It can handle complex combinations of look-up fields and lookup lists
- One click for
- Reading all templates form a whole tenant
- Updating a whole tenant with the set of templates
- both reading templates and applying them
- An option to disable/enable features
- Fixing template issues in between getting the templates and applying them without any user intervention such as:
- Updating security setting (usernames in different domains)
- Fixing templates with mixes of team sites and publishing sites
- Switching between latest and older versions of PnP PowerShell
- Migrating simple data in lists ( e.g. lookup lists)
- Handle external lists
- Migrate from On-Premises to Office 365
- … you name what you would like to add to this list
So this isn’t just about provisioning a solution, it is also about replicating your solutions between Development, Test and Production.
Are you interested in this solution then please leave a comment below.
Hi I am extremely interested in your solution as this is an issue I am currently struggling with. I have tried PnP and ShareGate and had issues with both around lookups. Also want the solution to support replicating prod sites collections down to dev and stage for maintenance/future development purposes
Hi Nigel, please see my latest post for the details of the solution.
Pieter, still very interested in this (and helping out if I can). Curious as to how much reporting is or could be included? Documenting which templates (and versions of templates) sites are using, features enabled, etc. could be very helpful.
Hi John, I will soon publish more details. But in short how things work is:
an xml specifying the multiple tenants, site collections and sites. for each site I’m specifying which workarounds need to be applied.
Then I’ve got a script that reads the xml and collects all the templates as specified in the xml
Then I’ve got a script that applies all the templates ( again all read from the xml)
A 3rd script does a combination of the two and copies one tenant to another
I’m planning to add a 4th script that can generate the xml from just being given a tenant name.
Hello Pieter
I’m also interested in your scripts as I have a need for some of the functionality you developed. Specifically lookup lists and and templates to be migrated.
Hi Andre, please see my latest post for the details of the solution.
I’d be interested to learn more. Thanks
Hi Paul, I will put you on the list of people to inform once the scripts are released
Hi Paul, please see my latest post for the details of the solution.
Adding my comment here to get the code @Pieter 😉
Hi Leonardo, please see my latest post for the details of the solution.
I’d be interested to learn more.
I want to be able to also:
-prepare a “template” site (modern or classic) with page, list, document library, content type, logo and so on and then “save as template” with pnp and create new site whit a “copy” of this template (I try actual PnP but is impossible usage, many bug/problems, learning curve high, debug not simple, etc.) For now I discard it.
-copy list (with items and permission) and document (with files, folders and permission) from one site to another. I would a Copy-PnPList , Copy-PnPDocumentLibrary, Import-Export PnPList/Documenti to xml/folder to disk for migrare/reorganization.
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Hi, is this solution still in the works or what happened?
Hi Jonas,
I published the scripts a while back on as an PnP PowerShell sample:
https://github.com/SharePoint/PnP-PowerShell/tree/master/Samples/Tenant.Migration