I am a huge fan of automation and powershell - this should explain why I really love chocolatey (a package manager to install software with powershell).
Today I created a new feed for SharePoint 2013 Development Tools: http://www.myget.org/feed/Packages/sharepoint2013dev and uploaded the very cool SharePoint 2013 Search Query Tool to the chocolatey gallery. This tool helps creating and testing search querries - and search is everywhere in SharePoint 2013!
After installing chocolatey you can get a great starter toolset with one line of powershell:
Here a small script to provision the Business Data Connectivity Service Application-without ugly GUID in the database name.
Add-PsSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue #Settings $ServiceName = “BDC Service” $ServiceProxyName = “BDC Proxy” $AppPoolAccount = “demo\spservices” $AppPoolName = “SharePoint Services App Pool” $DatabaseServer = “sp2013” $DatabaseName = “SP2013 BDC” Write-Host -ForegroundColor Yellow “Checking if Application Pool Accounts exists” $AppPoolAccount = Get-SPManagedAccount -Identity $AppPoolAccount -EA 0 if($AppPoolAccount -eq $null) { Write-Host “Please supply the password for the Service Account.
