STSADM

One of the new features with SharePoint 2007 is the ability to determine who can see different profile properties when looking at a users profile page. This is a great and necessary feature as it makes sure that various privacy concerns are addressed.

One thing that’s been hanging over my head for a while is what to do about the Site Directory. The first problem was to get the business users to decide on where it should live (the master site directory that is) and what columns (or meta data) should be part of the directory (either new columns or changes to existing columns).

If you’ve downloaded my code recently you may have noticed that there’s now a -debug; parameter that’s been added to all commands. Basically I just got tired of manually adding in the System.

I’ve noticed a lot of people looking for a way to delete a list (based on search terms used to hit my blog). There’s a built in command called forcedeletelist which will do the trick.

A while back I had created a command which allowed you to set the navigation elements/nodes for a given site. The command allowed you to also set a couple of basic switches that appear on the Site Navigation Settings page (Home > Site Settings > Modify Navigation) but it didn’t allow you to set all the flags.

As part of my upgrade I’ve discovered a need to be able to add items to various lists. I considered a couple of approaches including creating a command that would allow me to specify the field names and values that I wanted to add to the list.

I had just finished creating the gl-createwebapp command and was about to go and delete the test web applications that I had created while testing the command and I discovered that there is no built in stsadm command for deleting a web application.

It’s been a couple of weeks since my last post – I’ve been traveling and taking some needed vacation time. But I’m back to work now and I’ve got a couple new commands that I just created today.

I created this command because I was trying to debug an issue I was having. If you go through the central admin and remove a site permission for a web app (central admin > app management > user permissions for web applications) certain functionality that should work regardless of what setting you’ve removed no longer functions.

This was a pretty simple command to create and only took me a few minutes. Basically I needed to be able to set the search center for a site collection. You can do this via the browser by going to http://[portal]/[site collection]/_layouts/enhancedSearch.