Audience compilation via the command line

May 13, 2009   9:58

Last month I had to work a lot with audiences and of course my development environment had an annoying malfunction. The manage audience page (/_layouts/Audience_Main.aspx) contains a nice compilation link, but it didn’t work.

The only other option on the page is to schedule the compilation, but it can only be scheduled to run once a day. Not very useful during development.

After some digging I found the command line application to control the audience job and luckily it wasn’t very complicated to use. Just run the application to get some more information:

The best of it is that the application provides you the GUIDs of available Shared Service providers.

To start a new compilation from scratch for all the audiences, run the command with the given GUID and the two other parameters:

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MigrateSPUsers: Sharepoint 2003 user account migration tool

January 30, 2008   9:10

At my current Sharepoint 2003 to 2007 migration project, we have to migrate Sharepoint 2003 users to a different domain server. On my world wide web search I bumped into an utility called “SPUserUtil” that was part of the “SharePoint Utility Suite”, but unfortunately the author decided to take the project offline and it is no longer available.

This blog post from Alexander Windel provided enough information about the process of migrating Sharepoint users. For WSS sites you can use the “stsadm -o migrateuser” command, but this is not enough for a Sharepoint 2003 Portal Server. The problem is that you’ll also need to use code to call the function PortalAccountMigrationManager.MigrateAccount() in the object model.

Last evening I created a small Sharepoint user migration utility, to make our life a bit easier. It will run both commands for you and it will allow you to migrate a larger batch of Sharepoint users at once.

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