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You may have read my recent post regarding a bug with SharePoint which occurs when you create or extend a web application using an invalid directory path. I found that the fix for the bug was pretty simple and just required updating the invalid path property so that the unextendvs or deletewebapp commands could work.

I mentioned in my previous post that I was doing a presentation at the local SharePoint user group meeting and wanted to create a simple command to demonstrate what is involved with creating custom stsadm extensions.

I wanted to do a presentation at the local SharePoint user group meeting recently and decided that I should show how to build a custom extension. I decided that rather than use an existing one I would build a new command from scratch.

I had some free time one night and decided to work on something that I’d had several people ask me about – extending a web application programmatically. Honestly I was surprised at how many people had specifically asked me to create this command.

I got an interesting email the other day from Chakir Said regarding a bug that he encountered with SharePoint. He mis-typed the folder path for the web application and unfortunately the UI page has no validation to make sure that a valid path was specified.

I’ve mentioned a few times on my blog that I was going to post a sample install script which can be used to set up and configure a basic MOSS install (will also work with WSS but you’ll need to pull a lot out) and now I’ve finally got around to actually doing it.

I finally got around to doing what I should have done a LONG time ago – I’ve modified my source so that it now builds a WSP file when I build the project.

For those that have asked – yes, I’m at the conference – If you see a guy walking around with a Boston Bruins hat on, that’s me 🙂 Also – I’ve fixed the issue with the bad downloads – my connection from the hotel isn’t so great and when I went to upload the files last night they failed and I wasn’t able to fix until just now.

If you’re trying to configure a site for anonymous access via stsadm you can get most of the way using the out of the box extendvs (or my createwebapp) and authentication commands.

I decided I would make it easier for people who wish to create their own stsadm templates. I’ve gone ahead and created a CodePlex project http://www.codeplex.com/customstsadmtemplate) where you can download a starter project based on my custom commands.