Microsoft Sharepoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit eBook

386 Part V: Administration of Windows SharePoint Services
Using the Command Line to Manage Users
You can add a user account to your site by using the adduser operation. The
adduser operation takes the url (of the site where you want to add the user), userlogin,
useremail, username, and role parameters, plus the optional parameter siteadmin.
You use the siteadmin parameter to specify that the user is the site collection
administrator or owner of the site collection. Note that if you are using Active Directory
account creation mode, you do not need to specify the userlogin parameter;
you would use the useremail parameter to identify the user instead. (For more information
about Active Directory Account creation mode, see Chapter 2, “Installing
Windows SharePoint Services.”)
For example, to add User1 as an administrator for http://My_Server/site1 in
domain account mode, you would type
stsadm.exe -o adduser –url http://My_Server/site1 –userlogin DOMAIN1\User1
-useremail user1@domain.com -username "User 1" -role administrator
You use the deleteuser operation to remove users from a site. The deleteuser
operation takes the url and userlogin parameters. To remove User1 from
http://server1/site1, you would type
stsadm.exe -o deleteuser –url http://My_Server/site1
–userlogin DOMAIN1\User1
You can assign a user to a site group from the command line by using the userrole
operation. The userrole operation takes the url, userlogin, role, and add or
delete parameters. For example, to add the user User1 to the Contributor site group
for site http://server1/site1, you would type
stsadm.exe -o userrole –url http://My_Server/site1 –userlogin DOMAIN1\User1
-role contributor -add
Note that this does not remove the user from any site groups she was previously
a member of.
Configuring Antivirus Protection
Windows SharePoint Services now allows you to help protect your users from
uploading or downloading files that contain viruses. When you have installed an
antivirus scanner that is compatible with Windows SharePoint Services, you can
enable the antivirus protection feature for your server. When you enable the antivirus
protection feature, files are checked for viruses when a user adds a document to
a document library or list, or when a user views a document in a document library
or list. If a virus is found, the scanner attempts to clean the file; if the file cannot be
cleaned, the scanner blocks the file from being added or viewed.
Consult your antivirus software vendor to find out whether they offer a virus
scanner for use with Windows SharePoint Services and for information about installing
the virus scanner. Or, for a list of antivirus software vendors that support antivirus