PnP Core Provisioning

Microsoft Patterns and Practices group has developed a deployment tool for SharePoint called PnP Core that allows you to provision structure, data, settings, security, and artifacts to a SharePoint site from an XML input file.  I have been using it for clients for about 6 months now, and it works extremely well.  It allows compositing, which means that some things which were impossible to do before without some serous custom code is merely complex.  I will do a series on using the tool this week and pick up with the Dissecting C# Executable series next week.