MS IT SharePoint GotDotNet tools republished

Working with Bill Baer, I've republished to our Codeplex governance workspace, the GotDotNet tools that MS IT had published

These tools include the MS IT Recycle bin for WSS 2.0 and SPS 2003 written by an IT dev team (spec'ed by myself and Andre Heyman with documentation by Bill Baer.) This tool captures file deletes through the web UI, FPRPC, WebDav, and file APIs into an admin recycle bin (the file system).  It also includes the spreport tool for WSS 2.0 and SPS 2003 written by Daniel Witriol which gives a cool output in XML or HTML of the usage, metrics and measures of a farm and reports can be consolidated across multiple farms.  This tool was originally written for the product team to understand what features were being used to help them know what to work on.  Note this tool should be run off hours and can be run multi-threaded, but is a collector that uses data accessible via the object model to create the report.  I think the spreport tool is a handy one for evaluating an environment prior to upgrade like prescan and is one I'd have in my upgrade arsenal.  Wondering about the logic used in the tool?  Check out the SPRConfig.xml.  Note: Both of these tools should only be run on WSS 2.0 and SPS 2003 environments. Others include the MS IT People Picker (requires SPS 2003).  This people picker is designed to provide an easy to use picker based on entries in the profile database. It requires that SPS 2003 be installed, but it provides people picking capabilities to WSS 2.0 sites underneath the portal.  Also the MS IT Database Split tool (WSSSplit.exe), written by Andre Heymann, previously of MS IT, now of ITSystems in Switzerland. This tool automates splitting large Windows Sharepoint Services Databases into several smaller Databases. Based on an input, the process locks, backups, deletes and restores a SiteCollection.

One other popular tool that is difficult to find is being addressed.  Not to worry, I have been working with Keith Richie previously of Microsoft product support, now of Barracuda, to try to get the Spsitemanager tool updated and reposted as well.  I highly recommend *NOT* running the tool on any farms with both WSS 2.0 and WSS 3.0 or running it on any WSS 3.0.  The new fixes address recent updates and will check to ensure you aren't on a WSS 3.0 farm.