SharePoint Administration Toolkit
About one month ago (April 30th 2008) Zach Rosenfield (SharePoint Program Manager - Infrastructure) announced on his blog about the availability of the SharePoint Administration Toolkit. The Toolkit is the first in a series of updates that you should consider to be deployed into your SharePoint farm deployment. I haven’t had the time to test this out hence the delayed post.
This update will add the following capabilities to your SharePoint farm.
Let me explain what these mean and what you’ll need to consider for deploying this update to your farm.
There are two installers available for x86 and x64 and you can download the correct version of the SharePoint Administration Toolkit from the following locations.
**x64: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=F8EEA8F0-FA30-4C10-ABC9-217EEACEC9CE&displaylang=en **
**x86: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=263CD480-F6EB-4FA3-9F2E-2D47618505F2&displaylang=en **
Before you hit the install button after your download you should read the release white paper for SharePoint Administration Toolkit (MS Word) about known issues and how to install this on your farm. There are differences between the x64 install and x86 install.
Here are some basics you should know when installing and using the new updates.
From a command prompt, navigate to the following location: %COMMONPROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft Shared\Web server extensions\12\Bin
Type the following commands (without the quotation marks):
“psconfig –cmd applicationcontent –install” “stsadm –o installfeature –name BatchSiteManagerLinks”
](https://www.chandima.net/Blog/Lists/Posts/Attachments/153/BatchSites_2.png) The Move Lock and Delete Site Collections Screen once statistics have been updated. In this demo server I have two content databases for my Web Application. One for My Sites content and the other for a single site collection.
Most of what I highlighted above is available on the Release white paper for SharePoint Administration Toolkit.
If you are installing on a x86 platform you will see a similar screen if your install was successful.
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