Tweet A long time ago I wrote about SharePoint 2007 Files Restore Tool , tool that allows you to connect to SharePoint content database (not need to have SharePoint installation) and extract documents. The reason I wrote this tool was a customer that upgrade TFS and perform a new installation of SharePoint so he lost all his documents, this tool helped me to extract all documents and added them to the new SharePoint site. SharePoint upgrade/migration can be unpleasant and sometimes I prefer to do...
SharePoint 2007 Files Restore Tool I had a customer that need to restore some files from a deleted SharePoint site (long story….) in TFS 2010, the first option is to restore the entire TFS 2010 database include the SharePoint content database but instead of doing all this work I’ve written a small tool to help with that issue. Just restore the WSS_Content database (the version before the deletion) to another sql instance and use the tool to hook the database and restore the files you needed...