Answers is YES!!!

Here we go with the implementation:

• First step is to create a class library which inherits from class "ISPStsadmCommand" as follows:

using System; using System.Text; using Microsoft.SharePoint; using System.Collections.Generic; using Microsoft.SharePoint.StsAdmin; using System.Collections.Specialized; namespace WelcomeUser  { public class WelcomeUser : ISPStsadmCommand { public string GetHelpMessage(string command) { return "-User "; } public int Run(string command, StringDictionary keyValues, out string output) { if (keyValues.ContainsKey("User")) output = "Hey " + keyValues["User"] + " Welcome to SharePoint 2007!"; else throw new InvalidOperationException("The User parameter was not specified. For more help use STSADM -help WelcomeUser"); return 0; } } }

• Second step is add the dll to GAC
• Third step is to create XML file under path "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\CONFIG"
• XML file should look as below:

• Next step is to perform usual operation "iisreset"
• Now the new operation should be available for you in command prompt.

STSADM -o WelcomeUser -User "Tiger"

 Hope this helps.

As out of box, we cannot have metadata to folders. But when users needs to tag metadata to folders here are the simple ways:

• Create a custom content type called "Folder 1" which inherits from parent type "Folder".
• Go to document / list, in "Advance Settings" then enable Allow content types to the list.
• Then you get option to add any content types, where in this example I add content type "Folder 1".
• Then add site / list columns to this content type.

Now we should able to add metadata to folders. Hope this helps.