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Denis Heliszkowski's Blog : Toolshttp://blogs.technet.com/denish/archive/tags/Tools/default.aspxTags: Toolsen-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit 1.0 Releasedhttp://blogs.technet.com/denish/archive/2008/04/30/microsoft-sharepoint-administration-toolkit-1-0-released.aspxWed, 30 Apr 2008 21:03:00 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3047765denish1http://blogs.technet.com/denish/comments/3047765.aspxhttp://blogs.technet.com/denish/commentrss.aspx?PostID=3047765<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=arial,helvetica,sans-serif><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">This is the first version of the Admin Toolkit. The idea is to <SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">put in place a mechanism to release supported, documented, and sustained tools for SharePoint.  </SPAN> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=arial,helvetica,sans-serif><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"></SPAN></FONT> </P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=arial,helvetica,sans-serif><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">The plan is to release an updated toolkit quarterly which will include tools to address top support issues or design deficiencies that are a hindrance for product use.</SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=arial,helvetica,sans-serif><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"></SPAN></FONT> </P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"></SPAN><FONT face=arial,helvetica,sans-serif>The Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit 1.0 releases to the web today !</FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p><FONT face=arial,helvetica,sans-serif> </FONT></o:p></B></P> <UL> <LI> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B><o:p></o:p></B><FONT face=arial,helvetica,sans-serif><I>Tools Contained:</I> </FONT></DIV></LI> <UL> <LI> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=arial,helvetica,sans-serif>Batch Site Manager </FONT></DIV></LI> <UL> <LI> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">It will allow you to go into Central Administration, Application Management, and from there repartition sites straight from the UI and handles other tasks such as locking and deleting site collections.</DIV></LI></UL> <LI> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=arial,helvetica,sans-serif>Alert Fixer</FONT></P></LI> <UL> <LI> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">A new stsadm command called updatealert which will fix our #2 overall top support issue with alerts not firing after upgrade/migration</P></LI> <UL> <LI> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <A href="http://support.microsoft.com/?id=936759" mce_href="http://support.microsoft.com/?id=936759"><FONT color=#0000ff>http://support.microsoft.com/?id=936759</FONT></A>.  </P></LI></UL> <LI> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">It will also fixup URLs in the body of the alerts if the URL of the web application changes</P></LI> <UL> <LI> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><A href="http://support.microsoft.com/?id=936760" mce_href="http://support.microsoft.com/?id=936760"><FONT color=#0000ff>http://support.microsoft.com/?id=936760</FONT></A>.  </P></LI></UL></UL></UL> <LI> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=arial,helvetica,sans-serif><I>WhitePaper:</I> </FONT></DIV></LI> <UL> <LI> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><A href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=117212&clcid=0x409" mce_href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=117212&clcid=0x409"><FONT face=arial,helvetica,sans-serif>http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=117212&clcid=0x409</FONT></A><FONT face=arial,helvetica,sans-serif> </FONT></DIV></LI></UL> <LI> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=arial,helvetica,sans-serif><I>Download Link:</I> </FONT></DIV></LI> <UL> <LI> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=arial,helvetica,sans-serif><FONT size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt"><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore"><SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><I>x86: </I></FONT></FONT><A href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=263CD480-F6EB-4FA3-9F2E-2D47618505F2&displaylang=en" mce_href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=263CD480-F6EB-4FA3-9F2E-2D47618505F2&displaylang=en"><FONT face=arial,helvetica,sans-serif color=#0000ff>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=263CD480-F6EB-4FA3-9F2E-2D47618505F2&displaylang=en</FONT></A><FONT face=arial,helvetica,sans-serif> </FONT></DIV></LI> <LI> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=arial,helvetica,sans-serif><FONT size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt"><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore"><SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><I>x64: </I></FONT></FONT><A href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=F8EEA8F0-FA30-4C10-ABC9-217EEACEC9CE&displaylang=en" mce_href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=F8EEA8F0-FA30-4C10-ABC9-217EEACEC9CE&displaylang=en"><FONT face=arial,helvetica,sans-serif color=#0000ff>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=F8EEA8F0-FA30-4C10-ABC9-217EEACEC9CE&displaylang=en</FONT></A></DIV></LI></UL></UL><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3047765" width="1" height="1">Tools