Porting a SharePoint 2007 WSPBuilder Solution to SharePoint 2010 — Part 4
Clavin Fernandes
In the final part of our series about porting a SharePoint 2007 based WSPBuilder project to SharePoint 2010 we discuss the changes made to our Installation scripts in order to make it work with both versions of SharePoint.
Please note that this article is based on our experiences with the beta version of SharePoint 2010. Some of the issues we have identified may have been resolved in the final release.
The following posts are part of this series:
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Part 1 – Introduction / Problems installing the existing 2007 version on SP2010
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Part 4 – Updating deployment scripts (This post)
Installation Script
The installation scripts used for deploying the SharePoint part of our solutions are simple Windows CMD scripts. Our customers appear to prefer it this way as it allows them to see what is going on and make necessary amendments to deploy the software as part of a larger deployment script. Unfortunately we cannot use PowerShell as that technology is not available on all systems.
In order to make the same script work on SharePoint 2007 as well as 2010 environments we have had to make the following changes:
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Detect which version of SharePoint is installed.
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Adjust the STSADM path accordingly.
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Adjust the name of the WSP file accordingly as the WSP files for both environments are different.
The resulting installation script is as follows:
@echo off echo ******************************************************************************* echo Installing Muhimbi PDF Converter for SharePoint. (c) 2010 www.muhimbi.com echo ******************************************************************************* echo. REM ** Detect which version of SharePoint is installed. SET STSADM="%CommonProgramFiles%\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\bin\STSADM.EXE" SET SolutionWSP=Muhimbi.PDFConverter.SP2010.wsp if exist %STSADM% goto endVersionDetection SET STSADM="%CommonProgramFiles%\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\bin\STSADM.EXE" SET SolutionWSP=Muhimbi.PDFConverter.wsp if exist %STSADM% goto endVersionDetection echo - SharePoint does not appear to be installed on this server. goto endOfScript :endVersionDetection echo - Adding solution to Solution Store %STSADM% -o addsolution -filename %SolutionWSP% %STSADM% -o execadmsvcjobs echo - Deploying solution %STSADM% -o deploysolution -name %SolutionWSP% -immediate -allowgacdeployment -force %STSADM% -o execadmsvcjobs echo - Feature is self activating echo - Deploying Resources %STSADM% -o copyappbincontent echo - If you are experiencing problems when accessing the solution then echo please read the Administration guide, particularly section 3.5. echo - Installation finished. :endOfScript echo. pause
Un-Installation Script
The changes required to the un-installation script are similar to the changes for the installation script. As the name of the Timer Service has changed between SharePoint 2007 and 2010 this name has been made dynamic as well.
The resulting script is as follows:
@echo off echo ******************************************************************************* echo Un-installing Muhimbi PDF Converter for SharePoint. (c) 2010 www.muhimbi.com echo ******************************************************************************* echo. REM ** Detect which version of SharePoint is installed. set STSADM="%CommonProgramFiles%\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\bin\STSADM.EXE" set TimerServiceName="SharePoint 2010 Timer" SET SolutionWSP=Muhimbi.PDFConverter.SP2010.wsp if exist %STSADM% goto endVersionDetection SET SolutionWSP=Muhimbi.PDFConverter.wsp set STSADM="%CommonProgramFiles%\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\bin\STSADM.EXE" set TimerServiceName="windows sharepoint services timer" if exist %STSADM% goto endVersionDetection echo - SharePoint does not appear to be installed on this server. goto endOfScript :endVersionDetection SET SolutionWSP="Muhimbi.PDFConverter.wsp" echo - Retracting solution. %STSADM% -o retractsolution -name %SolutionWSP% -immediate %STSADM% -o execadmsvcjobs echo - Wait for the solution to be retracted across the farm (Check Central Admin). pause echo - Removing solution from Store. %STSADM% -o deletesolution -name %SolutionWSP% %STSADM% -o execadmsvcjobs echo - Restarting timer service in order to release any GAC DLLs. net stop %TimerServiceName% net start %TimerServiceName% echo - Un-installation finished. :endOfScript echo. pause
That’s it. We hope you have enjoyed this series. Please leave feedback if you have any questions.
Clavin is a Microsoft Business Applications MVP who supports 1,000+ high-level enterprise customers with challenges related to PDF conversion in combination with SharePoint on-premises Office 365, Azure, Nintex, K2, and Power Platform mostly no-code solutions.
