Stsadm command-line administration

Applies To: Office SharePoint Server 2007

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Topic Last Modified: 2015-03-09

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 includes the Stsadm tool for command-line administration of Office SharePoint Server 2007 servers and sites. Stsadm is located at the following path on the drive where SharePoint Products and Technologies is installed: %COMMONPROGRAMFILES%\microsoft shared\web server extensions\12\bin. You must be an administrator on the local computer to use Stsadm.

Available operations and properties

Although most operations can be performed using either the user interface or Stsadm, the following operations and properties provide functionality that is only accessible by using Stsadm:

Operations

addcontentdb (the command line is required for adding databases that need to be upgraded)

enumsolutions

renameserver

addsolution

enumtemplates

restore (site collection level)

addwppack

enumwppacks

retractsolution

backup (site collection level)

execadmsvcjobs

retractwppack

binddrservice

export

scanforfeatures

canceldeployment

forcedeletelist

setadminport

copyappbincontent

getadminport

setconfigdb

createadminvs

getproperty

setproperty

createsiteinnewdb

getsitelock

setworkflowconfig

databaserepair

import

spsearchdiacriticsensitive

deleteadminvs

installfeature

syncsolution

deleteconfigdb

migrateuser

uninstallfeature

deletesolution

provisionservice

unregisterwsswriter

deletewppack

refreshdms

updateaccountpassword

deploysolution

refreshsitedms

updatealerttemplates

deploywppack

registerwsswriter

updatefarmcredentials

displaysolution

removedrservice

upgradesolution

enumdeployments

removesolutiondeploymentlock

Properties

-force

-propertyname

-globalinstall

-propertyvalue

-newname

-servicename

-overwrite

-ssl

For a complete list of Stsadm operations and properties, see Index for Stsadm operations and properties (Office SharePoint Server).