About
Welcome to my blog! The primary focus of this blog is on the automation of SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010; however, I also post on all sorts of other things related to SharePoint in general. My main intent with this blog is to help administrators and developers solve those mind-numbing problems that many of us have run into--I try to provide mainly "deep-dive" type stuff as the basics are fairly well covered already.
For anyone looking for my custom STSADM and PowerShell extensions for SharePoint please go to the Downloads page; you'll find links to all of my downloadable source, executables, solution files, and presentations there.
If you're looking for someone to help you with your SharePoint implementation please feel free to email me at gary@falchionconsulting.com or gary@aptillon.com; Falchion Consulting, LLC is my own personal company but I'm also teamed up with the best of the best as part of Aptillon, Inc. At Aptillon we mainly focus on architecture planning and oversight but also do a lot of hands on deployment, development, and troubleshooting - you can find more information at www.Aptillon.com.
Note: This blog was migrated from http://stsadm.blogspot.com - if you have links pointing to my old blog please help me out and update them to point here instead.
April 2nd, 2011 - 05:00
Gary,
Thank you for your STSADM commands, they have helped us immensely.
Although I’m relatevly new to SharePoint, I have been supporting it for about a year now, I really love it despite all it’s pitfalls and issues.
I’m glad someone is thinking outside the Microsoft box and posting some great real world solutions that work.
Thank you.
June 11th, 2011 - 10:21
Hi Gary, Clayton Cobb redirected me to you:) , i have site collection with 2 sites variation , spanish and english, i have a question, the english site is the root variation, and the spanish site is the other one, i made subsites under each one MANUALLY, i didnt use the timer job to create sites under english site to spanish site, so if i have a site with pages library under english site and create a page it will not be copied to the same site under spanish site’s pages library, is it because i haven’t run the variation timer job to create the sites? how can i fix it? they have the same urls, when i click the english label it moves to the english site and when clicking on spanish label it moves to spanish site (i made these labels using javascript). i did something wrong, right?
June 11th, 2011 - 10:54
You can create the sies manually and not let the timer job create them but then pages won’t sync so what you have to do is run the stsadm fix variations command (can’t remember the exact name of the command but should find it for you. This *should* re-wirte all the sites so that the linking is set properly (see my “Fun with Variations” post for more info – it’s for 2007 but virtually all of it still applies).
June 11th, 2011 - 14:33
i should write code for it? or there is an stsadm or powershell command?
June 18th, 2011 - 23:00
No – that’s what I’m saying, there’s an stsadm command to fix the relationships list.
September 19th, 2011 - 07:54
Gary:
Thanks very much for both the SP2010 cmdlet source code (a great way to learn how to do – and document – this), and what must have been painstaking work on figuring out how to get SPLimitedWebPartManager.SaveChanges() to work properly.
I posted my own related “adventure” here:
http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/19384/splimitedwebpartmanager-savechanges-trips-exception-checked-out-to-another-user