Script a Metadata Service Application using PowerShell

Scripting the deployment of service applications is a good idea; it is predictable, repeatable and gets you control over database names. I found a good script for the Metadata Service Application at Zach Rosenfield’s blog post SP+PS 2010: PowerShell to Create a Service Application.  Read Zach’s blog post for a detailed description of the script.

Here is the script, adjusted with RTM changes:

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Set-ExecutionPolicy unrestricted # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Script for setup managed metadata service # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- write-host -ForegroundColor Green "setup managed metadata service..."; $FarmName = "Lab" $DatabaseServer = "LabDB" $DatabaseUser = "lab\spfarmservice" $DatabaseUserPassword = (ConvertTo-SecureString "pass@word1" -AsPlainText -force) $DatabaseCredentials = New-Object -TypeName System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -argumentlist $DatabaseUser, $DatabaseUserPassword  $ServiceApplicationUser = "lab\SpServiceApp" $ServiceApplicationUserPassword = (ConvertTo-SecureString "pass@word1" -AsPlainText -force) $ServiceApplicationCredentials = New-Object -TypeName System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -argumentlist $ServiceApplicationUser, $ServiceApplicationUserPassword  $ServiceApplicationPool = "SecurityTokenServiceApplicationPool" $MetadataDatabaseName = ("{0}_Metadata" -f $FarmName) $MetadataServiceName = "Managed Metadata Service" try{       #Managed Account       write-host -ForegroundColor Green "Managed account...";       $ManagedAccount = Get-SPManagedAccount $ServiceApplicationUser       if ($ManagedAccount -eq $NULL)        {             write-host  -ForegroundColor Green "Create new managed account"            $ManagedAccount = New-SPManagedAccount -Credential $ServiceApplicationCredentials       }             #App Pool       write-host -ForegroundColor Green "App pool...";       $ApplicationPool = Get-SPServiceApplicationPool  "SharePoint Hosted Services" -ea SilentlyContinue       if($ApplicationPool -eq $null){              write-host  -ForegroundColor Green "Create new app pool"             $ApplicationPool = New-SPServiceApplicationPool "SharePoint Hosted Services" -account $ManagedAccount              if (-not $?) { throw "Failed to create an application pool" }       }             #Create a Taxonomy Service Application       write-host -ForegroundColor Green "Create a Taxonomy Service Application...";       if((Get-SPServiceApplication |?{$_.TypeName -eq "Managed Metadata Service"})-eq $null){                  Write-Progress "Creating Taxonomy Service Application" -Status "Please Wait..."             #get the service instance             $MetadataServiceInstance = (Get-SPServiceInstance |?{$_.TypeName -eq "Managed Metadata Web Service"})             if (-not $?) { throw "Failed to find Metadata service instance" }                          #Start Service instance             Write-Progress "Start Service instance" -Status "Please Wait..."             if($MetadataserviceInstance.Status -eq "Disabled"){                    $MetadataserviceInstance | Start-SPServiceInstance                    if (-not $?) { throw "Failed to start Metadata service instance" }             }              #Wait             write-host -ForegroundColor Yellow "Waiting for Metadata service to provision";             while(-not ($MetadataServiceInstance.Status -eq "Online")){ #wait for provisioning                   # write status                   write-host  -ForegroundColor Yellow -NoNewline $MetadataServiceInstance.Status; sleep 5;                   write-host  -ForegroundColor Yellow -NoNewline "."; sleep 5;                   # Update the object                   $MetadataServiceInstance = (Get-SPServiceInstance |?{$_.TypeName -eq "Managed Metadata Web Service"})             }             #Create Service App             $MetaDataServiceApp  = New-SPMetadataServiceApplication -Name "Metadata Service Application" -ApplicationPool $ApplicationPool  -DatabaseServer $DatabaseServer -DatabaseName $MetadataDatabaseName             if (-not $?) { throw "Failed to create Metadata Service Application" }                         #create proxy             $MetaDataServiceAppProxy  = New-SPMetadataServiceApplicationProxy -Name "Metadata Service Application Proxy" -ServiceApplication $MetaDataServiceApp -DefaultProxyGroup             if (-not $?) { throw "Failed to create Metadata Service Application Proxy" }       } } catch {             Write-Output $_  }

Comments

• Anonymous
  February 15, 2011
  Brilliant, thanks - I was struggling to get a working version from Zach's post (as good as it was). Thumbs up for a first-time-working script