Document Converter in SharePoint Subscription Edition and the stsadm command

Document Converter in SharePoint Subscription Edition and the stsadm command

Wherever possible the Document Converter for SharePoint On-Premises uses a SharePoint User Interface for specifying settings. However, some settings are so infrequently used that creating special screens for them just leads to confusion.

Instead we provide a number of ‘ stsadm’ commands to tweak these settings. Usually, these configurations are set by using the stsadm.exe command line tool included with SharePoint. For example:

stsadm.exe -o setproperty -pn Muhimbi.SharePoint.DocumentConverter.PDF.SkipMetaDataFieldNames -pv Title;User

Although the stsadm command line tool is not available in SharePoint Subscription Edition, there is an equivalent PowerShell script at our disposal.

The

stsadm -o setproperty -pn <property name> -pv <property value>

command can be substituted with the following PowerShell script

Terminal window
Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell
$Farm = Get-SPFarm
$Farm.Properties["<property name>"] = "<property value>"
$Farm.Update()
$Farm.Dispose

The Update command is very important, otherwise the changes will not be stored.

If you are interested to learn more about available settings, you can read more in this post.