How to Configure a Web Application for Two-Tier Deployment and to Activate Features Using Windows PowerShell

This topic provides guidance on how to use Microsoft Windows PowerShell to configure your Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Web application. This procedure is required after you have deployed a customized Web application into a SharePoint 2010 environment on a target server.

Prerequisites

• See Using Windows PowerShell for SharePoint 2010 Commerce Deployment for a list of variables and sample values that may be used in sample scripts provided in this topic.

To configure a SharePoint Web application using Windows PowerShell

The following is a sample Windows PowerShell script that sets properties and enables features in a SharePoint 2010 Web application. In this sample, the Windows PowerShell script configures and enables application-level features that are provided with the SharePoint Commerce Services Extensibility Kit.

# Add CS Site Name
Write-Host "Adding properties to the web application: " -nonewline
$wa = Get-SPWebApplication $WebAppName

$wa.Properties["IsDistributedFoundation"] = $IsDistributedFoundation
$wa.Properties["CommerceServerSiteName"] = $CommerceServerSiteName
$wa.Properties["FoundationServiceEndPoint"] = $FoundationServiceEndPoint
$wa.Properties["FoundationServiceEndPointFederatedAccess"] = $FoundationServiceEndPointFederatedAccess
$wa.Properties["FoundationServiceEndPointAnonymousAccess"] = $FoundationServiceEndPointAnonymousAccess
$wa.Properties["UserPrincipalName"] = $UserPrincipalName
$wa.Properties["portalsuperuseraccount"] = $SuperUserAccount
$wa.Properties["portalsuperreaderaccount"] = $ManagedAccount

# Only For Development, this basically turn off friendly errors on your site.
$wa.Properties["DevMode"] = "true"

if($ExtendedZoneType -eq "Internet")
{
    $internalSettings = $wa.IisSettings[ [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPUrlZone]::Default ]
    $publicSettings = $wa.IisSettings[ [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPUrlZone]::Internet ]
}
else
{
    $internalSettings = $wa.IisSettings[ [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPUrlZone]::Intranet ]
    $publicSettings = $wa.IisSettings[ [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPUrlZone]::Default ]
}

$internalSettings.AllowAnonymous = $false
$publicSettings.ClaimsAuthenticationRedirectionUrl = "/_layouts/CommerceServer/LoginRedirectPage.aspx"

$wa.Update()
Write-Host " done" -foregroundcolor darkgreen


Set-SPCustomLayoutsPage -Identity "Login" -RelativePath "/_layouts/custompages/customLogin.aspx" -WebApplication $PublicWebSiteUrl


# Activate WebApplication Level Features
Write-Host "Enabling the CS Features : " -nonewline
Enable-SPFeature -identity "Resources" -URL $wa.Url
Enable-SPFeature -identity "CommerceServerStorefrontSiteResourceDeployment" -URL $wa.Url
Enable-SPFeature -identity "SilverlightWebConfig" -URL $wa.Url
Enable-SPFeature -identity "CommerceServer" -URL $wa.Url
$job = Get-SPTimerJob -identity "job-deploy-commerce-server-activation" -WebApplication $wa
$jobIsDone = $false
do
{
    sleep 1
    if($job.HistoryEntries)
    {
        foreach($entry in $job.HistoryEntries)
        {
            $jobIsDone = $true;
            Write-Host "The commerce server feature activation job finished in " ($entry.EndTime - $entry.StartTime).TotalSeconds " seconds "
        }
    }
}
while(!$jobIsDone)

Write-Host " done" -foregroundcolor darkgreen

Write-Host "Waiting 20 seconds to ensure that the feature activation code is properly executed in all farm nodes:" -nonewline
sleep 20
Write-Host " done" -foregroundcolor darkgreen

Default Web Application Features

The following table shows the features that are set by default in the solution files provided in the SharePoint Commerce Services Extensibility Kit.

See Also

Other Resources

Using Windows PowerShell for SharePoint 2010 Commerce Deployment

Walkthrough: Deploying SharePoint 2010 Commerce Solution in a Two-Tier Topology