Where: "Driftwood" room (2nd floor) in Building 500, Bank of America, 9000 Southside Blvd: Map and Directions
When: Thursday, April 24th, 2008 @ 6-8 PM
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Topic: Developer Workshop: Using and Extending STSADM
STSADM.EXE is the extensible command-line utility that ships with Windows SharePoint Services and enables system administrators and developers to quickly perform tasks that would otherwise require many keystrokes in the browser. With over 180 built-in commands and the ability to add your own custom commands, STSADM is truly the “SharePoint Power-Tool” and is an essential part of the core SharePoint developer skillset. In this session, we’ll take a look under the covers to see just how STSADM works and we’ll walk through the process of creating some useful custom commands. At the end of this session, you’ll have the code and the know-how to manage any SharePoint environment from the command line.
Speaker: John Holliday, MVP Office SharePoint Server
John Holliday has over 25 years of professional software development experience and has been involved in a wide range of commercial software projects from desktop personal information managers to enterprise information systems for companies including IBM, Kodak, Autodesk, Mentor Graphics, Tektronix and Alcatel. After receiving a J.D. from the University of Michigan, John began researching alternative methods of representing legal relationships, developing a specialized computing language for constructing legal expert systems. Over the years, his interest in knowledge representation has expanded to include all aspects of distributed systems development, with a special focus on intelligent documents, collaboration and content management. In addition to his professional career, John is actively involved in humanitarian activities through the Art of Living Foundation, an international service organization devoted to uplifting human values throughout the world.