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STSADM has survived in SharePoint 2010
I am going through some of the SharePoint Conference 2009 Videos I recently got from a colleague of mine that was lucky enough to be there, and I am pleased to have learned that STSADM will not be gone in SharePoint 2010. Simon Skaria confirmed this in...
Posted: 11-09-2009 20:03 by Dirk | with 4 comment(s)
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Update a SharePoint farm with minimal site downtime
It was the time of the year again to do an upgrade of several SharePoint farms for my customer. This upgrade was for installing SP2 and the June cumulative update on an entire farm and the requirement was to avoid too many downtime by the installation...
Posted: 10-19-2009 19:20 by Dirk | with 9 comment(s)
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Change the default 10 MB limit for saving a site as template
I bumped upon this 10 MB limit today when trying to save a site as a template. Did some research on the net and found that you can change this limit through the following stsadm command: stsadm -o setproperty -pn max-template-document-size -pv 524288000...
Posted: 02-03-2009 7:09 by Dirk | with no comments
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Speed up SharePoint spin-up and stsadm execution time by Jeroen Ritmeijer
Here is the lifesaver of the month! Jeroen's post was sent to me by Cedric Carrette (Thanks ). Original post content; Ever since SharePoint 2007 was introduced I have been really disappointed with the 2 minute spin-up time of the sites and the 30 second...
Posted: 01-08-2009 5:31 by Dirk | with 8 comment(s)
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Change the Central admin port with stsadm
Hi all, just this little tip for today. My colleague configured a test farm a while ago and let the wizard choose the port to be used for the Central Admin webapplication. I don't know why, but every time I have seen this you get a hideous port from the...
Posted: 12-21-2008 23:16 by Dirk | with no comments
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New SharePoint Admin and Management Tools by Joel Oleson
For those of you that are not subscribed to Joel's blog (shame on you ). This is one of a few Admin Tools that really help you batch changes. This one appears to really be focused on batch changing site collections. LOVE IT. Thanks Zach, it's about time...
Posted: 07-06-2008 0:29 by Dirk | with no comments
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stsadm -o enumusers explained - update
I came across some odd behaviour 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...
Posted: 07-03-2008 11:40 by Dirk | with 2 comment(s)
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Configure Moss using psconfig.exe and stsadm
If you have read my post on configuring moss to use a database in an untrusted domain adn have tried it out, you will have noticed that the configuration of MOSS is not yet complete. Actually when running the Config wizard you can see 9 steps being performed...
Posted: 03-07-2008 4:00 by Dirk | with 3 comment(s)
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Are your alerts not sending email? Use these stsadm commands to verify your alert settings.
I recently had a colleague asking me to troubleshoot some workflows. Apparently the workflow should send emails, but nothing was coming thru. As part of my troubleshooting I came across 2 stsadm commands that may help you identify an issue with your alerts...
Posted: 01-07-2008 6:23 by Dirk | with no comments
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Site Template identifiers for use with STSADM
For those CLI geeks out there like me I really enjoy using stsadm for creating new site collections, etc. One of the things I always keep looking for are those identifiers for specifying the site template for the new site collection. I have gathered a...
Posted: 11-21-2007 1:02 by Dirk | with 2 comment(s)
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