Detecting Solution Deploying Status

Question

I am Looking for a way to detect if the a solution is deploying the following code does not seem to return "Deploying" like I see in central admin.

$wspID = Get-SPSolution -Identity 'mysolution.wsp';
Write-Host $wspID.Status;

running the above code repeatedly while deploying or retracting never returns "deploying" only things like "NotDeployed","GlobalDeployed", etc.

I want to determine it's deploying state so my code will wait until the previous solution is deployed.

Answer 1

There is no way to detect the deploy*ing* state of a solution, but you can check if the solution is deploy*ed*:

if($wspID.Deployed -eq $true){
}

If Deployed returns false wait a couple of seconds and try again.

Answer 2

Sharepoint creates job rather than deploy immediately, so you should check if the job has executed successfully. Take a look at this.

Answer 3

The status only gives you basic info, but you can see what's going on by looking at the JobExists property, here's a but of a script doing that as part of a scripted deployment ($file is the wsp name)

$solution = Get-SPSolution -Identity:$file
while ($solution.JobExists -eq $true) {
    Write-Host '.' -NoNewline
    sleep -Seconds:1
    $solution = Get-SPSolution -Identity:$file
}
Write-Host

Answer 4

The best solution is to use the SPSolution.LastOperationResult and SPSolution.LastOperationDetails properties.

$solution = Get-SPSolution -Identity:$file
while ($solution.JobExists -eq $true) {
    Write-Host '.' -NoNewline
    sleep -Seconds:1
    $solution = Get-SPSolution -Identity:$file
}
$lastOperationResult = $solution.LastOperationResult
return ($lastOperationResult -eq [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPSolutionOperationResult]::DeploymentSucceeded)