STSADM ShortCut for SharePoint 2010

Short Command
Here’s a quick tip – so that you only need to type STSADM :
STSADM.EXE –o enumsolutions

Add the path to ENV variables
What you need to do is add the big looong path to the server ‘environment variables’ – these are the steps for Windows Server 2008 (much the same for 2003) :

• Click Start – and then just type “SYS VAR”    (without quotes)
• The Windows start menu will show the items that match – from Control Panel
• Click the item shown – which is “Edit the system environment variables”

• Click on the button for ‘Environment Variables’

• Scroll down the SECOND list box – with the System Variables
• Click on the variable called Path – and click Edit

• Then paste in the PATH to the SharePoint Root folder (BIN)
• IMPORTANT : Don’t REPLACE the current PATH value – just append to the tail
• Make sure you include a semi-colon between the previous value
• AND – make sure you wrap it with quotes – as there are spaces in the value

• For SharePoint 2007 :
• ;"C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN\"
• For SharePoint 2010 :
• ;"C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\BIN\"
• Click OK – and then OK again – and once more – basically just need OK your way outta there…

And – that’s it – you can now just type STSADM instead of needing the entire PATH to the BIN folder.