I am a self-confessed command line junkie. Sure, I see value in GUIs—and they're great for getting accustomed to a tool—but after crawling, the command line lets you walk, run, and then fly!
by Sahil Malik
April 22, 2008
n this article, I'll introduce you to my best friend in SharePoint land, Stsadm.exe. No, this article is not a reference on Stsadm, neither is it an introduction to SharePoint. Instead, I introduce you to a few neat tricks using Stsadm that I like to keep in my back pocket.
Managing Sites and Site Collections
SharePoint organizes its data in sites and site collections. When you design a site for a client, you must evaluate a number of pros and cons as you choose between a site and a site collection for a particular set of data. Irrespective of what you picked, you'll encounter times where you wished you had picked the other. Or sometimes, you just need to shuffle or move things around because the requirements changed, the databases grew, or any other reason. Stsadm is incredibly helpful in such scenarios.
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n this article, I'll introduce you to my best friend in SharePoint land, 
