STSADM

Add User Policy for Web Application

Add User Policy for Web Application

I needed to create this command in order to solve an odd permissions problem that I was experiencing. I had a web application (http://teamsites) which I’d setup and needed to start migrating sites to.

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Add User 2

Add User 2

This is one of those commands that I really shouldn’t have had to create. All I wanted to do was use stsadm to add an AD group to a site collection.

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Set Audit Settings for Site Collection

Set Audit Settings for Site Collection

In any financial institution auditing is crucial – it’s no different with my company – as such we wanted to make sure that there was at least a minimum level of auditing occurring at the site collection level.

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Search Scopes and Rules

Search Scopes and Rules

Our previous environment had just one web application and no existing search scopes beyond the default ones. With our upgrade we wanted to (finally) take advantage of search scopes to help filter the result sets and make searches more relevant.

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Personalization Service Permissions

Personalization Service Permissions

While walking another IT user through the SSP admin interface the other day I discovered that even though the user was a Farm Administrator that user was not able to get into certain pages within the SSP admin site (such as the profile properties page).

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Customizing MySites

Customizing MySites

This posting doesn’t actually have anything to do with stsadm (unless you count the fact that you need stsadm to install Features) but I figured I’d post this here regardless as I’ve seen a lot of questions out there regarding how to do this.

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Update List View

Update List View

One of the things I needed to do in order to get my Site Directory set up and working properly was to be able to modify the view that controls which columns appear when creating a new site collection.

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Delete List (forget about forcedeletelist)

Delete List (forget about forcedeletelist)

Okay – so I’m trying to test some import issues with lists and decide to export an existing list that has documents set the way I need them. I run my import test and realize I’ve got more work to do so I go to delete the list via the browser.

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Copy List Security (permissions) Settings

Copy List Security (permissions) Settings

I got a comment the other day on my blog about an issue with the copying/importing of lists. The problem was that the security settings on the list were not being preserved during the import.

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User Profile Properties

User Profile Properties

After running our upgrade and inspecting the user profile properties on the SSP that we created it was quickly discovered that some properties needed to be modified. Some of the changes were as simple as determining whether or not the property should be visible on the profile page or whether the user should be allowed to edit the property and some of them needed to be mapped to the corresponding field in Active Directory.

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