What is it?

A couple of powershell scripts to aid in item delivery to servers

What does it do?

Helps you upload, install, and publish .update files to a Sitecore instance from Powershell thru the Sitecore.Ship module: https://github.com/kevinobee/Sitecore.Ship

What do I need it for?

I stumbled across the inital premise for these scripts somewhere online (they are not originally mine). I needed a way for a VSTS (TFS+RM) release to upload and trigger a publish of an update package.

How do I use it

Should be as easy as:

1. Clone, download, whatever, just get these files into your project

2. Execute the scripts with the necessary params provided.

3. To install/deploy: .\deploy-sitecorepackage.ps1 mysite.dev "C:\Project\Build\Artifacts\myCore.update" 300

4. To publish: .\publish-sitecorepackage.ps1 mysite.dev "preview,web" "smart" 60 300

A few advanced examples

1. To install/deploy to an endpoint that has Basic Auth and save the IDs of the items that get overwritten by the update: .\deploy-sitecorepackage.ps1 mysite.dev "C:\Project\Build\Artifacts\1-mysite-templates.update" 300 -ResultsOutputPath "c:/temp/ids.txt"

2. To publish only the list of IDs overwritten to an endpoint that has Basic Auth: .\publish-sitecorepackage.ps1 mysite.dev "preview,web" "en" "listofitems" 300 MyUserName MyPassword "C:/temp/ids.txt""