Building sharepoint sites from command line

Build your sharepoint installation from commands, either use STSADM

to make a new user(s) stsadm createuser
to add them to sites and groups stsadm adduser

to add a site stsadm createsite
to add a subsite stsdmin createweb
or
various classes can be called to create additional features areas for example:
the SDK has the skinny

or maybe you could use the webservices that sharepoint exposes:

• http://server:5966/_vti_adm/Admin.asmx - Administrative methods such as creating and deleting sites


• http://server/_vti_bin/Alerts.asmx - Methods for working with alerts


• http://server/_vti_bin/DspSts.asmx - Methods for retrieving schemas and data


• http://server/_vti_bin/DWS.asmx - Methods for working with Document Workspaces


• http://server/_vti_bin/Forms.asmx - Methods for working with user interface forms


• http://server/_vti_bin/Imaging.asmx - Methods for working with picture libraries


• http://server/_vti_bin/Lists.asmx - Methods for working with lists


• http://server/_vti_bin/Meetings.asmx - Methods for working with Meeting Workspaces


• http://server/_vti_bin/Permissions.asmx - Methods for working with SharePoint Services security


• http://server/_vti_bin/SiteData.asmx - Methods used by Windows SharePoint Portal Server


• http://server/_vti_bin/Sites.asmx - Contains a single method to retrieve site templates


• http://server/_vti_bin/UserGroup.asmx - Methods for working with users and groups


• http://server/_vti_bin/versions.asmx - Methods for working with file versions


• http://server/_vti_bin/Views.asmx - Methods for working with views of lists


• http://server/_vti_bin/WebPartPages.asmx - Methods for working with Web Parts


• http://server/_vti_bin/Webs.asmx - Methods for working with sites and subsites