Updating MatchPoint Snow

Update MatchPoint

Update MatchPoint using either the MatchPoint installer binary or by using PowerShell.

For more information, please refer to the MatchPoint Installation Guide document.

Update MatchPoint Snow

Use Update-SPSolution to update the MatchPoint Snow solution:

Update-SPSolution -Identity Colygon.MatchPoint.Snow.wsp
                  -LiteralPath c:\path\Colygon.MatchPoint.Snow.wsp
                  -GacDeployment

Restart-Service SPTimerV4

This will deploy the newest DLL to the GAC. After the update, the Cmdlet for updating MatchPoint Snow configuration files and other components will be available (Update-MPSBase and Update-MPSWebs).

PowerShell needs to be restarted in order for the new/updated CmdLet to become available.

The following chapters will describe the two PowerShell CmdLets which need to be executed in order to update MatchPoint Snow:

• Update-MPSBase: re-enables the two MatchPoint Snow features (Colygon.MatchPoint.Snow on the MatchPoint Snow site collection and Colygon.MatchPoint.Snow.Configurations on the MatchPoint Instance web). Also non-web-specific update steps are processed.
• Update-MPSWebs: iterates over all webs which are part of MatchPoint Snow and updates them to the current version.

A script for updating MatchPoint Snow is located at: ..\3_MatchPoint_Snow\Update\Update.ps1
Note that you have to specify the optional parameter -updateWebs if you also want to update the webs and not only perform the Update-MPSBase step.

This script will consider the MatchPointSnowUpdateConfiguration which can be created in the MatchPoint Configuration Editor. You will be notified and asked if you want to use and configure it in all scripts that consider it. These update settings can also be used to select which version specific update steps will be performed.

The Update Settings are considered as follows:

1. There is no update configuration: In this case Update-MPSBase and Update-MPSWebs will just work as before and all mandatory parameters will be required and requested
2. There is an update configuration: In this case the update configuration will be taken into concern, even if it is not explicitly referenced using the UpdateConfigurationName parameter.
3. There are multiple update configurations: The script will notify you and you have to specify which one should be used.

The parameters specified in the PowerShell will always overrule the settings in the configuration.

Update-MPSBase Cmdlet

The Update-MPSBase PowerShell Cmdlet is available in the SharePoint 2013 Management console. Please note that you need to execute it with a user that is member of the farm administrators group. The following steps are executed by the Cmdlet:

• Backup changed files: Any configuration files that are part of MatchPoint Snow and that have been changed from the ones released with former MatchPoint Snow version will be saved in the configuration library. The name of the backup has the format {name}\_Backup\_{version}.xml
• Reactivate the feature Colygon.MatchPoint.Snow.Configurations on the MatchPoint instance site collection: This deploys the new configuration files to the MatchPoint configuration library.
• Reactivate the feature Colygon.MatchPoint.Snow on the MatchPoint Snow root site collection: This will update the configuration file MatchPointSnowConfiguration.xml with the URL of the Snow root site (SiteCollectionUrl property).
• Generally non-web-specific updates will be processed, e.g. changing Configurations files.
• Some configurations that are no longer in use will be deleted (i.e. user control configurations that were transformed to user controls located in the _layouts folder).
• Process any pre-actions which are defined per version. This could the reactivation of features or executing a tag importer.
• Process any post-actions which are defined per version. This could the reactivation of features or executing a tag importer.

The Cmdlet can be executed with following parameters:

Update-MPSWebs Cmdlet

Depending on the parameter specified, the script will iterate over the relevant SharePoint elements and perform following actions:

• Update the web to the current version of MatchPoint Snow (perform all steps required from source- to target version). An example of such an action can be adding a Web Part to the landing page of a workspace or re-enabling certain features (web- or site-scoped).
• Reapply the current composed look. This is required in order to ensure that the themable CSS files and images are generated.
• Write the currently installed/updated version of MatchPoint Snow (e.g. 2013.11.0.0) to the property bag of the SPWeb. The property is called __MPSnowVersion.
• Snow related sites include:
  • The MatchPoint Snow site collection and sub webs (recursive)
  • Any Snowflake site collections and sub webs (recursive)
  • Any Snow workspaces (based on the workspace list), their sub workspaces (meetings) and other sub webs (recursive)

Please note that you either need to specify the WebApp, the WorkspaceListUrl or a WebUrl. Webs which do not belong to MatchPoint Snow will not be processed.

Update the Managed Properties

The managed properties required by MatchPoint Snow need to be updated in order to match the managed properties as described in Post Installation Steps, Search Service Application.

Add-MPSManagedProperties -SearchServiceApplication <SSA>

Update the User Properties

The user properties required by MatchPoint Snow need to be updated.

Add-MPSUserProperties -WebAppUrl <WebAppUrl>

Workspace Aggregation Mode

If the workspace aggregation mode has been changed by using the PowerShell cmdlet Set-MPSWorkspaceAggregation, it has to be executed with the same parameters again after updating MatchPoint Snow.

Workspace Item Storage Mode

If the workspace storage mode has been changed to distributed mode by using the PowerShell cmdlet Enable-MPSWorkspaceItemInWebMode, it has to be executed with the same parameters again after updating MatchPoint Snow.