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Database Attach Shared Services Provider (SSP)

Performing a database attach using STSADM.exe is useful for migrating or upgrading existing data. Here is an example of how to use the STSADM.exe commands to be able to perform a db attach for the Shared Services Provider (SSP): Create the web application

Simple Updates to Make Your MySite More Useful

The SharePoint Server MySite page is intended to be the default landing place for a user to see information that is useful to them. Unfortunately, the unmodified, out-of-box MySite page leaves some room for improvement to make it a more useful experience

Using PSConfig.exe command-line options to complete SharePont Server Configuration

After SharePoint Server setup has completed, the admin may run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard to complete the configuration steps, but there may be a need to run these steps via the command-line or to just to get a better

Increasing the frequency of the Profile and Membership Sync timer jobs

One of the new features in MOSS 2007 is the ability to synchronize WSS user data to SharePoint Server. One of the areas where this is synchronization is displayed is within the MySite SharePoint Sites web part which will display all sites that the user

Updating the SharePoint Admin Password on an existing Farm

The security policy for many IT departments within organizations requires that passwords be changed after a certain time period. This would require that the accounts associated with a SharePoint Server Farm install be updated. Here are some steps to do

Enumerating thru User Profiles

SharePoint Server allows user profile data to be imported from various sources such as the Active Directory, LDAP, and using a Business Data Catalog (BDC) connection to almost any data source that contains user info. There may be a need to enumerate thru

Creating Audience Rules via the Object Model

SharePoint Server (MOSS) was designed as a platform for building applications upon. Using the SharePoint Server Object Model (OM) exposes many different and often more complicated operations than what can be done with the UI only. An example of this is

Creating Shared Service Provider (SSP) via command-line options

Using the SharePoint Admin UI there can often be quite a delay to perform administrative actions compared to doing the same actions via the powerful command-line tools. One of the tools that should be very familiar to SharePoint Admins is STSADM.exe.