Microsoft has released a couple of weeks ago the SharePoint Administration Toolkit which gives the ability to perform bulk operations on site collections and update alert emails whenever web apps change URLs.

As described on the Microsoft download page:

Brief Description

The Microsoft® SharePoint® Administration Toolkit contains functionality to help administrate and manage Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 and Windows® SharePoint® Services version 3.0.

Quick Details

Version: 1
Date Published: 4/30/2008
Language: English
Download Size: 21 KB - 883

*Download size depends on selected download components.

Overview

The Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit contains functionality to help administrate and manage Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services version 3.0. This toolkit contains two new functions – the ability to perform bulk operations on site collections and a Stsadm operation to update alert emails after a Web application has changed URLs.

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