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Administering Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies 2007 Using STSADM Todd Klindt Windows SharePoint Services MVP Solanite Consulting, Inc. [email protected] WSS MVP since 2006 Speaker, writer, consultant, aquarius Personal Blog www.toddklindt.com/blog Company web site www.solanite.com E-mail [email protected] Stayed up too late last night. Introduction to STSADM and how to use it Common STSADM operations Backup and restore with STSADM Advanced operations with STSADM Things that can only be done with STSADM What to do when you have mastered STSADM Talk about how incredibly tall the Burj Dubai is Command line tool on SharePoint servers Must be run locally by a local administrator Not interactive, makes it a perfect candidate for scripting Hidden in the 12 Hive C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN Several ways to make it easier to access Add to path Create cmd.exe shortcut Batch file Environment variable There are 184 operations in MOSS To find an operation, pipe STSADM through find Can be used for some common daily tasks Site maintenance Createsite/ Deletesite/ Enumsites/ Createsiteinnewdb/ Enumsubwebs Web maintenance Createweb/ Deleteweb/ Renameweb User maintenance Adduser/ Deleteuser/ Enumusers/ Migrateuser Setting up your environment and common tasks demo Can be used to backup SharePoint at many levels Backup operation works at the farm level Compatible with backups made in Central Admin Backup operation can also back up at the Site Collection level Export and Import replace smigrate.exe and work at the web level More granular than backup and restore Import does not overwrite destination Choose the level that is appropriate for the issue you are trying to address, catastrophic recovery or site and document backup Since it’s CLI it is great for scripting Use AT.EXE or Task Scheduler to schedule your batch file Same flexibility, backup farm or individual site collections Backup and Restore demo Use addtemplate and enumtemplate to manipulate templates Enumtemplate will only show user added templates Web Parts – Addwppack/ deploywppack/ enumwppacks/ retractwppack Features – Activatefeature/ deactivatefeature/ installfeature/ scanforfeatures/ uninstallfeature Solutions – Addsolution/ deploysolution/ displaysolution/ enumsolutions/ retractsolution/ upgradesolution Content Databases – Addconentdb/ deletecontentdb/ enumcontentdbs Managed paths – Addpath/ Deletepath Only need to add paths, exclusions are gone Web applications – Extendvs/ unextendvs Zones and alternate access mappings – Enumzoneurls/ addzoneurl/ deletezoneurl /geturlzone Manage timer jobs with deletessptimerjob Manage web application policies with Managepolicypermissionlevel A lot of power lies in the Setproperty and Getproperty operations days-to-show-new-icon sets length of time the New! Icon shows up job-immediate-alerts sets the polling time for immediate timer jobs max-template-document-size sets maximum size for site and list templates large-file-chunk-size sets the chunk size of blobs between the WFE and the SQL server execadmsvcjobs to force the Time Job Service to execute your job immediately createsiteinnewdb to create a new Site Collection in its own DB Mergecontentdbs to move Site Collections around Setadminport to change Central Admin port Databaserepair to clean out orphaned objects STSADM operations can be added via custom code Consists of two part Create XML file to define new operations in 12\Config Create assembly and place in Global Assembly Cache Can be deployed as Solution Couple STSADM with PowerShell Use PowerShell to parse XML output Use to loop through STSADM operations Examples on Codeplex My Blog http://www.toddklindt.com/blog Real World SharePoint http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTitle/productCd0470168358.html STSADM article in TechNet Magazine http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2007/01/Co mmandPrompt/ Gary LaPointe’s STSADM extensions http://stsadm.blogspot.com STSADM Extension project http://www.codeplex.com STSADM White Paper http://www.mindsharp.com © 2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.