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I recently posted about exporting audiences using my gl-exportaudiences STSADM command. Of course an export wouldn’t be of much use if you didn’t also have an import so I give you gl-importaudiences.

I’d been wanting to build an export and import command for Audiences for quite some time but just haven’t gotten around to it. I’m currently looking for a good sample command to build during a possible talk at the next Best Practices conference so I decided to give this one a whack considering that I already had a good chunk of the code written and just needed to repurpose it.

I can’t actually take credit for this particular command – in fact I’ve never configured SSO so I personally don’t know much about it. I got the code from Stef van Hooijdonk who graciously provided the code he produced.

I know, I know, I’m way behind on documenting my PowerShell cmdlets – I will be striving to get them done as soon as possible. I’ve already documented one of them, the Get-SPSite cmdlet, and I will now continue with the Get-SPWeb cmdlet.

I just saw this post on the SharePoint forums: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointgeneral/thread/e9cd9836-5a50-42b3-bf2f-02338a3168f3 – it appears that there’s a possibility for data corruption when using the STSADM mergecontentdb command. The post details a few things you can do to reduce the possibility of corruption when using the command but it would appear that the hidden message is to use Backup/Restore until a fix is released.

This has come up in various conversations recently so I figured I’d write up a short post about it. When trying to obtain an SPWeb object there are a couple of different options available using members of an SPSite instance.

I had an absolutely great time at the MVP Summit this year. It was great being able to sit with the product teams and see all the absolutely spectacular stuff that they’ve been working on.

I was having dinner the other night with lots of super star SharePoint MVPs where I ended up sitting next to Joel Oleson, Todd Baginski and Jason Medero – it wasn’t long and the subject of Twitter came up.

While looking through the event logs at a client of mine the other day I came across an odd error that was occurring regularly. Apparently they had developed a Feature which contained an Event Receiver which was programmatically bound to a series of lists.

When working with clients on their SharePoint deployment I often get questions about the quota templates and how they work. Quotas are kind of odd because of the disconnected nature of the quota template and the quota that is assigned to a site collection.