in reply to Sharepoint Automation?

imrags:

Reassigning ownership of a large group of Sharepoint files. That sounds like a frequent operation for a Sharepoint administrator. Perhaps the solution is a friendly request to your site administrator? Alternatively, maybe Sharepoint relies on the OS to maintain file ownerships & permissions, so your second avenue might be to ask the servers administrator. (I don't use Sharepoint, so this is merely a guess.)

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Re^2: Sharepoint Automation?
by girarde (Hermit) on Oct 08, 2010 at 19:33 UTC
    SharePoint does not rely on the O/S for file permissions. SharePoint content is stored as BLOBS in MSSQL databases.

    Reassigning ownership can be done for a fairly large number of files very quickly (by a site collection administrator) but apparently the number here chokes the web interface. Wouldn't be the first time.

    The command-line utility for SharePoint does not, AFAIK, include an operation to assign ownership of files or list items. (UPDATE) There are many other things I've used it for in qx//, but this isn't there.(/UPDATE)

    girarde has been administering two large SharePoint farms fulltime for about a year and a half, and was running farms and/or bits and pieces of them since 2004.

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