Using STSADM to set the duration of New Icon in SharePoint

The duration of the New Icon can be modified using STSADM utility. Use “Days-to-show-new-icon” property to set the duration in days. If the duration is set to “0” (zero) then the new icon will not be displayed. This is the better way to hide the New Icon.




Note:
The default duration of days is “2”.

Using STSADM

Use the following STSADM command to set the New Icon display duration to “5” days.

stsadm.exe
-o setproperty
-pn days-to-show-new-icon
-pv 5
-url http://mosssiteUrl

TechNet Reference: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc287681.aspx

Useful Tools for SharePoint

The following are the tools which are very frequently used in SharePoint Projects.

SharePoint Designer

SharePoint Designer is a WYSIWYG HTML editor and web design application from Microsoft exclusively for SharePoint sites.

Download link: http://www.microsoft.com/DOWNLOADS/details.aspx?FamilyID=baa3ad86-bfc1-4bd4-9812-d9e710d44f42&displaylang=en

U2U CAML Builder

A tool for creating and executing CAML queries

Download link: http://www.u2u.be/res/Tools/CamlQueryBuilder.aspx

SP Dispose Check

A tool for writing safe code using SharePoint Object Model to prevent memory leaks

Download link: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/SPDisposeCheck

WSPBuilder

A tool for creating SharePoint Solution Package (WSP) WSS 3.0 & MOSS 2007

Download link: http://www.codeplex.com/wspbuilder

STSDEV

A tool for creating easy deployable solution

Download link: http://www.codeplex.com/stsdev

SharePoint Manager 2007

It a SharePoint object model explorer tool, enables you to browse every site on the local farm and view every property.

Download link: http://www.codeplex.com/spm

WSS/MOSS Log file reader

A tool to View, search and filter SharePoint ULS log files directly from within Central Administration.

Download link: http://www.codeplex.com/wssmosslogfilereader

SharePoint Logging Spy

A tool to allow real time diagnostics of multiple servers in a SharePoint

Download link: http://www.codeplex.com/sharepointloggingspy

SharePoint Test Data Population Tool

A tool for capacity planning and performance testing that populates data for testing SharePoint deployments

Download link: http://www.codeplex.com/sptdatapop

AD Explorer

It is an advanced Active Directory (AD) viewer and editor which allows manipulation of AD objects

Download link: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963907.aspx

IE Developer Toolbar

A tool that aims to aid in design and debugging of web pages

Download link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=E59C3964-672D-4511-BB3E-2D5E1DB91038&displaylang=en

Note: “Internet Explorer 8” includes the features of IE Developer Toolbar built in, instead of a separate product; known as Developer Tools rather than Developer Toolbar.

Reflector

A tool for disassemble Assemblies

Download link: http://www.red-gate.com/products/reflector

GhostDoc

A tool that helps developers writing XML documentation comments

Download link: http://www.roland-weigelt.de/ghostdoc

Resource Refactoring

A tool to extract hard coded strings from the code to resource files

Download link: http://www.codeplex.com/ResourceRefactoring

Fiddler

It is a Web Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP(S) traffic between your computer and the Internet.

Download link: http://www.fiddlertool.com/