Archives for November 2011

STSADM copyappbincontent vs. Install-SPApplicationContent

November 7, 2011 by Joel Jeffery 1 Comment

The purpose of STSADM’s “copyappbincontent” command is:

stsadm –o copyappbincontent

Copies Web application–specific files, such as page resource (*.resx) files from their respective locations in the 12\CONFIG folder to the correct location in each Web application on the computer.

Uninstall All SharePoint 2010 Solutions via PowerShell

November 6, 2011 by Joel Jeffery 3 Comments

I frequently need to tear down and rebuild the SharePoint 2010 environment I use for demonstrations.

One action I need to perform pretty much weekly is removing all the installed SharePoint solutions I built to demo development topics over the previous week.