How to access STSADM from any directory

This is a nice quick tip for the August holiday season.

 

Open up the following:

 

Start --> Control Panel --> System

 

 

This should open up the System Properties dialog.

 

Go to the Advanced Tab and click on Environment Variables.

 

 

Find the variable called "Path" and append this to the end:

;c:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\web server extensions\12\bin

 

 

That should be it.

 

You may need to re-open ay Command Prompt windows before you can use this.

 

Now you can just call "stsadm.exe" from any command prompt window!

 

Note - If you find type "stsadm.exe" a bit laborius, try adding another one:

Name: STSADM

Value: stsadm.exe

 

 

Hopefully you get how this would work