Dirk Van den Berghe SharePoint Admin Blog

real admins use stsadm.

stsadm -o enumusers explained

I came across some odd behviour with the stsadm -o enumusers command. As it seems it does not enumerate the users of a site collection as expected. After doing some research I found a white paper from the guys of Mindsharp explaining this function as follows:

"stsadm.exe -o enumusers -url <url> displays dead users, which is defined as users who no longer have a user account listed in the SharePoint profile database, but is still displayed in the site's membership. For example, dead users can include users who have left an organization and have been removed from Active Directory. This parameter works on a site-x-site basis. the Enumusers command may also return the system Account (SHAREPOINT\system) shich is not a valid AD user"

The complete white paper about managing SharePoint using stsadm can be found here

I thought some of you would want to know about this.

Posted: Jul 03 2008, 11:40 AM by Dirk | with 1 comment(s)
Filed under: ,

Comments

casey said:

Thanks, I was wondering about enumusers. Microsoft says it returns a list of users, I notice it only returns the system account. I will read the article you pointed to.

# October 29, 2008 8:48 AM
Leave a Comment

(required) 

(required) 

(optional)

(required)