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Nigel Witherdin
Mar 27, 2017Iron Contributor
Release Process For SharePoint Online Sites
Hi, I am interested in finding out what approaches are used for managing the release cycle for SharePoint Online site collections. Our site collection "solutions" are typically made up of sit...
Luis Mañez
Mar 27, 2017MVP
Hi,
I blogged some thoughts here:
http://www.clearpeople.com/insights/blog/2017/january/continuous-integration-in-sharepoint-with-team-services-and-pnp
In my case PnP fits perfectly with some XML templates and the provisioning framework. You can find some issues, but normally, are fixed sooner or later by the community, and also, you can extend the framework to meet your requirements.
The difficult part is about moving down from Prod to test - dev, as the provisioning framework doesn't export content. If you need content, there are some 3rd party tools to do that, or again, you can extend the PnP to export the things that you need.
Hope it helps.
I blogged some thoughts here:
http://www.clearpeople.com/insights/blog/2017/january/continuous-integration-in-sharepoint-with-team-services-and-pnp
In my case PnP fits perfectly with some XML templates and the provisioning framework. You can find some issues, but normally, are fixed sooner or later by the community, and also, you can extend the framework to meet your requirements.
The difficult part is about moving down from Prod to test - dev, as the provisioning framework doesn't export content. If you need content, there are some 3rd party tools to do that, or again, you can extend the PnP to export the things that you need.
Hope it helps.