SharePoint Management Studio - Solution Deployer
SharePoint Management Studio is a Open Source SharePoint Administration Tools that helps you manage your sharepoint enviroment simple and easy. SharePoint Management Studio (SPMS) has a module named Solution Deployer. Solution deployer is a powerfull application to deploy your solutions easy. Solution Deployer can deploy multible solution file to multible web applications. For example you need to new Sharepoint farm as a preprotuction and you want to same configration to production to preprotuction. Notice that you install new farm and create all webapplication now you can add solution new farm and deply it global or web applications. if you has 10 solution files and 5 web application you can perform 100 jobs to do this. Because you must run 10 addsolution command and 10 solutin X 5web applications deploy. Solution Deployer do all of them for you. (http://spms.codeplex.com/)
The other properties is Solution deployer understand solution file type authomaticly. GLOBAL deployet or web application deployment.
SharePoint Management Studio - Download installed Solutions
SharePoint Management Studio is a Open Source SharePoint Administration Tools that helps you manage your sharepoint enviroment simple and easy. SharePoint Management Studio (SPMS) has a module named Download installed Solutions to export Solution Files from Solution Store.By default Sharepoint don't allow download your solutions on central admin. (http://spms.codeplex.com/)
This section has only two options one of them Deploy Solution and the other one is Romove Solution. One day I lost my solution instalation setup and wsp file and I need to deploy same solution the other farm. This tool was very usefull for me. Download this application source code codeplex or my site and run application your Sharepoint enviroment. Application load your web application list and wait your selection wich application solution(s) you want to download or global deployed applications.
Click wich solution you want download and click Save as button. Application ask you a destination directory. Select ona and click okey. Finaly application save your solution which you lost setup or wsp, download your destination directory.
SharePoint Management Studio - Restore Backup
SharePoint Management Studio is a Open Source SharePoint Administration Tools that helps you manage your sharepoint enviroment simple and easy. SharePoint Management Studio (SPMS) has a module to Restore *.bck backup files to your sitecollections by a GUI. Normaly you can rESTORE site collection backup by stsadm.exe like stsadm.exe -o restore -url http://testsite -filename testsite.bck -overwrite but this module helps you restore your backups and protect you write too much command. (http://spms.codeplex.com/)
How is Works ?
To run Perform a Backup fallow ;
- click Backup and Restore --> Site Operation --> Restore Backup OR
-Click Ctrl + Shift + R key combinations.
Click Select Backup File button on Tool bar and select your .bck file that you want to restore. And select web Application from Web Application List and click Restore Selected file to Selected Web App button.
After complate your restore SPMS write Restore was complate message.
SharePoint Management Studio - Perform Backup
SharePoint Management Studio is a Open Source SharePoint Administration Tools that helps you manage your sharepoint enviroment simple and easy. SharePoint Management Studio (SPMS) has new module to take your sitecollection backup by a GUI. Normaly you can site collection backup by stsadm.exe like stsadm.exe -o backup -url http://testsite -filename testsite.bck but this module helps you take multible backup one time and protect you write too much command. (http://spms.codeplex.com/)
How is Works ?
To run Perform a Backup fallow ;
- click Backup and Restore --> Site Operation --> Perform a Backup OR
-Click Ctrl + Shift + B key combinations.
Click to Connect To Farm Button on Tool Box. Notice that Application get avalible Web Applications that you can take a backup.
Select one or more web applications that you want to take backup.
Click Start Backup Button. Notice that Application is runging and take a site backup which you has just selected.
After complate backup operation your .bck files will ready as SiteName + Date .bck format.