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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: Dec 21 2008, 11:16 PM 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: Jul 06 2008, 12:29 AM by Dirk | with no comments
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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...
Posted: Jul 03 2008, 11:40 AM by Dirk | with 1 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: Mar 07 2008, 04:00 AM by Dirk | with 2 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: Jan 07 2008, 06:23 AM 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: Nov 21 2007, 01:02 AM by Dirk | with 1 comment(s)
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