The vision was to plan, design, develop, test and publish a high quality SilverLight application that would improve the overall customer experience with the current downloadable Visio diagram for the Stsadm SharePoint command line admin tool.
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TechNet Launches New Interactive Silverlight Application for STSADM Technical Reference
Use the variationsfixuptool operation This article describes how to use the Stsadm variationsfixuptool operation, which lets farm administrators control and perform operations against variations. Pre-upgrade scanning and reporting for future releases (Office SharePoint Server) This article describes how to use the Stsadm preupgradecheck operation to scan farm servers before starting an upgrade to ensure that some upgrade prerequisites are met and to detect known issues that can prevent the upgrade from completing successfully
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New STSADM commands with SharePoint SP2
After the false start yesterday when the publishing review process obviously failed, we can now all see the post that some of the people who have nothing better to do than sit and watch RSS feeds had picked up 
http://blogs.technet.com/office_sustained_engineering/archive/2009/04/16/service-pack-2-for-the-2007-microsoft-office-system-due-to-ship-april-28th.aspx For the SharePoint fans, the key bits are: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP2 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server SP2 include fixes and enhancements designed to improve performance, availability, and stability in your server farms. SP2 provides the groundwork for future major releases of SharePoint Products and Technologies
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SharePoint SP2 take 2