Multilingual Provisioning Templates with the Office 365 Developer Patterns and Practices Provisioning Engine

Somehow I don’t seem to be able to come up with short titles for my posts :-) A much requested feature was the ability to create a multi-language provisioning template. It turned out that the implementation of that wasn’t actually that complex, we had much of the plumbing already in place in the engine. The main question we had to ask ourselves was: how do we specify the various values for each language? Continue reading

Using an extensibility provider with the PnP Provisioning Engine

When you use the provisioning engine of the PnP Core project, you can provide an extensibility provider in your XML file. In order to use the Apply-SPOProvisioningTemplate cmdlet with an XML file that contains such a reference, it is important that you also load the assembly, otherwise the engine will fail to instantiate your provider and as a result, the provider will not be executed. An extensibility provider is nothing but a simple class: Continue reading