Buddy of mine (Scott Helm) created a nifty utility for SharePoint that allows you to change url strings in a publishing web.  Cool stuff Scott! SharePointUrlChanger - Home out on CodePlex. Project Description This is a utility that I created to change...

Change alternate access mappings in Central Administration Central Administration > Operations > Alternate access Mappings Edit each mapping so that it reflects your new server name Ensure port numbers are the same Use stsadm renameserver operation...

The SharePoint User Assistance team has put together some posters of the stsadm command line parameters.  Not a bad thing to hang over the desk! Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog : Posters for SharePoint Stsadm command line...

Recently I was onsite with a client trying to recover their WSS 3.0 environment that they completely lost (post coming on that later).  During the recovery process I needed to add a content database back to their installation but received the following...

Joe Stagner has a great post on how to set up Live Writer to blog at asp.net's weblogs.  I like a lot of Live's tools, so going to start using this for blogging my posts.  (Mainly so I have a better system of managing my drafts). Setting up...

note: this script detaches it first   EXEC sp_detach_db @dbname = 'dbnametoattach' EXEC sp_attach_single_file_db @dbname = 'dbnametoattach' , @physname = 'c:\yourdirectory\dbnametoattach.mdf'   - Dan Lewis