Response from Pradeep Narsimhula
By default, the “!New” tag gets appended to every new item in SharePoint lists and remains for ONE CALENDAR day.
As an administrator, we have two options to change the behavior of this feature:
1) Increase the period or number of days for the icon to appear beside a new item in the list
2) Eliminate it from appearing altogether
The stsadm.exe utility can be used to accomplish this task.
First of all, we would need to navigate to stsadm’s location using a command prompt:
1) Start -> Run -> type cmd
2) Navigate to the location: ..\program files\common files\microsoft shared\web server extensions\60\bin
The “setproperty” command will be used for this task as follows:
stsadm.exe –o setproperty –pn days-to-show-new-icon –pv (number of days) –url (Virtual server address)
For example, use the following syntax to prevent the new tag from appearing:
stsadm.exe –o setproperty –pn days-to-show-new-icon –pv 2 –url http://inhywsps1
Note: We can scope this to a web application level if you have more than one web applications in your SharePoint environment.
Pradeep Narsimhula, Hyderabad, India
Certifications: MCT, MCTS, ITIL (Foundation), CAPM
http://sharepoint-one-stop.blogspot.com
From Mark Miller
We usually don’t “do” command line stuff here, but this is such a common request, I thought it would be worth exposing it. Talk with the system admin if you want to implement Pradeep’s solution.
Very cool!