Comments on Chris O'Brien: Using the SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard

Thank you so much for this tool Chris, it saved my...

2011-10-20T13:35:44.544+01:00

Thank you so much for this tool Chris, it saved my life. After spending considerable time trying to get test and live environments to match up using the microsoft way and hitting the most un helpful errors, your tool came to the rescue and did it one. Thank you for this, an amazing piece of software.

Hi Chris Thanks for the reply. The issue I was h...

2010-12-28T15:40:14.500Z

Hi Chris

Thanks for the reply. The issue I was having was getting errors when trying to export one list item. I think it is an issue with this particular list since this site has a lot of problems. I was able to export the whole list and import to another site. I then tried to do an export of one item from this new site and didn't have any issues. So, I am set.

Thanks
Jennifer

@Jennifer, It sounds like you're specifying &...

2010-12-28T12:31:43.981Z

@Jennifer,

It sounds like you're specifying 'Retain object IDs and locations' - this would cause the import to look for the list by ID, and maybe the list doesn't have the same ID as where you exported the item from.

What happens if you try again without this checkbox checked?

Thanks,

Chris.

Hi Chris Love your tool. I was able to easily co...

2010-12-27T16:37:05.124Z

Hi Chris

Love your tool. I was able to easily copy a list from one site to another. One thing I keep getting errors with is when I try to do the export of one item from a list. The error message says the list item does not exist. Any idea of what I might be doing wrong?

Thanks
Jennifer

@Kyle, Happy to help! I had to give this one som...

2010-10-21T17:37:51.199+01:00

@Kyle,

Happy to help!

I had to give this one some thought, but yes you're right - because the path within the site collection is not changing, this *isn't* a reparenting operation. Consequently you shouldn't specify an Import Web URL.

It does get slightly tricky thinking some of these scenarios through, but something which simplifies it is remembering that SharePoint's Content Deployment framework is based on the idea of creating an exact mirror between source/destination. When you pick up some content, it has a reference to the path within the site collection - any time you change that, you are reparenting and need to tell it where the new path is via the Import Web URL.

HTH,

Chris.

Hi Chris, Kyle here again. Thanks a lot for your p...

2010-10-21T16:15:30.456+01:00

Hi Chris, Kyle here again. Thanks a lot for your previous reply, that helps to clarify. As a follow up question, what if I had already completed the move I described in my previous post (i.e., now both /webApp/site and /otherApp/otherSite have the same site collection on them). Now I want to move a SINGLE site called "HelpSite". On /webApp/site it is located at /webApp/site/HelpSite and I'm moving it to /otherApp/otherSite/HelpSite. I'm assuming that, according to your prior explanation, I do NOT need to specify an Import Web URL since no reparenting is occurring? In other words it is not the URL itself that matters, it is only the location of the item that you are moving relative to the entire site collection. So if the whole site collection is at /1/2 on the source and at /1/2/3/4 on the destination, you can still safely move ONE site from /1/2/SiteBeingMoved to /1/2/3/4/SiteBeingMoved since its location relative to the site collection has not changed. Sorry if those examples were confusing. And again, your product is great, immensely helpful, and I appreciate you taking the time to respond to my comments.

-Kyle

@Kyle, Great question. In fact, the content *isn&...

2010-10-21T13:49:29.844+01:00

@Kyle,

Great question. In fact, the content *isn't* being reparented in the example you mention - this is reparenting really refers to anything *beneath* a site collection, rather than a site collection itself. So reparenting examples include moving a web to another place in the structure/moving a list to another web etc.

This is basically because a site collection is the boundary for many things in SharePoint, including references between objects.

HTH,

Chris.

Hi Chris, Thanks for creating such a great tool....

2010-10-20T22:27:00.145+01:00

Hi Chris,

Thanks for creating such a great tool. I've been testing a lot of things with it, and I generally understand it. But I do have a question. I am dealing with moving an entire site collection from location A to location B. I am aware that, if the URL of A is http://source/myApp/site and the URL of B is http://destination/myApp/site, then I should leave the 'Import Web URL' field blank and check the 'retain object IDs' box. However, what if the URL of A is http://source/myApp/site and the URL of B is http://destination/otherApp/otherSite? Then do I have to specify an 'Import Web URL'? And should I check the 'retain object IDs' box? The reason I ask is because you say "if it is reparented" to specify the 'Import Web URL' field. But in that situation, is it being reparented or not? And why? My thoughts are that it IS being reparented in the second situation I mentioned, simply because the "top level site" (as SP calls it when you create a new site collection) is different on the destination than it is on the source. Thanks.

-Kyle

Hi Chris, This is in continuation with my earlier...

2010-07-22T05:00:29.365+01:00

Hi Chris,

This is in continuation with my earlier post about "Problem in Import / Export the SSRS Web Part". We've come up with a concrete solution for this issue. Please refer the resolution at this thread :
http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/partnerdevsql/thread/6d7ac7d0-71e0-43a0-97c5-faaf3a678765

Thanks. Vishwajit

@Laureano, Can you tell me what the exact error m...

2010-07-09T00:07:19.884+01:00

@Laureano,

Can you tell me what the exact error message is?

Thanks,

Chris.

Hello Chris, first of all thank you for sharing th...

2010-07-07T14:47:28.824+01:00

Hello Chris, first of all thank you for sharing this tool.
I have a little problem when trying to migrate reports(from reporting services) this reports are on a Document Library, and when the import procedure is starting the tool is saying for every particular report that it's located there.

Thanks for help!!
Laureano.

@vishwajitwalke, I read your post in the MSDN for...

2010-06-20T23:57:51.934+01:00

@vishwajitwalke,

I read your post in the MSDN forums. Unfortunately it looks like this is just a limitation of the SSRS Report Viewer web part - if it hardcodes an absolute URL I can't think of any course of action other than what you have done. Either that, or simply edit the web part page *after* the import has been done on the target.

Sorry I can't be more help.

Chris.

Hello Chris, This is in continuation of my previo...

2010-06-19T16:19:52.016+01:00

Hello Chris,

This is in continuation of my previous post about "Export / Import of Custom SSRS Report Viewer Web Part". We've came up with partial work around for this issue, details of which can be found at MSDN Forum :

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/sharepointbi/thread/402f4df1-3caa-4ae1-b9ad-25b69a410192?prof=required

Your assistance would be much appreciated to make this "fully-working".

Thanks,
Vishwajit

@Garry, Yes I have documented this properly somew...

2010-06-13T23:29:52.158+01:00

@Garry,

Yes I have documented this properly somewhere, but in my completely professional way I now can't find where. Let me try to explain here:

- follow steps 6 and 7 of the process in Command-line support for Content Deployment Wizard
- edit the generated XML file to ensure that the 'FileLocation' attribute points to the folder path where all the files are stored, there is no 'BaseFileName' attribute, and FileCompression is set to 'False'

Feel free to reply again here if you run into problems.

Thanks,

Chris.

Hi Chris, Great tool, Thanks. I did an export an...

2010-06-09T16:28:17.945+01:00

Hi Chris,

Great tool, Thanks.

I did an export and disabled compression. Is there any documentation on the command-line to import?

Garry

Hi Chris, Thanks for this great tool !! I've ...

2010-03-19T12:10:52.567Z

Hi Chris,

Thanks for this great tool !! I've an issue of Importing Custom SQL Server Report Viewer Web Part. After Importing, this web part failed to view the report as it contains Export Server Name in its Report Server Path. I've gone through Manifest.xml but no such attribute found where I thought to replace the Export Server name with Import Server's.

Another thing I've tried is Exporting a web part to .dwp file and then importing it. It also failed with same error. So, I just renamed the .dwp file to .xml and changed the ReportServerPath Attribute to point to Export Report Server. And it worked !!

Is there a possible work-around for it ?

Vishwajit

@Vijay, I did some research and found your (answe...

2010-03-12T21:02:49.228Z

@Vijay,

I did some research and found your (answered) post at http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/sharepointdevelopment/thread/0f10490e-1ccb-41ac-8922-b2848808ae44. So it seems you can use "1023" but not "1024" - good info, thanks.

Chris.

Hi Chris, I want to use the SPExportSettings.File...

2010-03-09T07:21:33.726Z

Hi Chris,

I want to use the SPExportSettings.FileMaxSize property to set the maximum size of my exported package to 1 GB. I have tried it but that is no working. Even after setting this property, the package still be broken in two parts.

I am not sure what is missing. Any help is highly appreciated.
Thanks,
Vijay

@Anonymous, I don't think AAM should have any...

2009-12-14T00:47:27.192Z

@Anonymous,

I don't think AAM should have any effect on Content Deployment, so I'm not sure what to say. Have you checked everywhere in your site structure in case you used some options and weren't sure which destination you'd end up with?

HTH,

Chris.

Thank you very much Chris your tool is great and I...

2009-12-10T17:16:05.544Z

Thank you very much Chris your tool is great and I copy lists from one site to another, and it works great with under any web application even if WAP uses host headers or not but I have one web application which using AAM with host headers and extended for external and custom, copy list process completes successfully, import and export logs completes successfully with no errors but when I open the destination site, list does not exist at the destination site. If I tried to copy same list under another site which does not use host header and not extended and it copies successfully.

Anybody has same or similar problem or list what might be go wrong? Anybody has any idea where is the copied list at the destination?

@Sean, @David Perry, This is now a confirmed bug ...

2009-11-10T11:23:37.028Z

@Sean, @David Perry,

This is now a confirmed bug - apologies for the inconvenience. Not sure exactly when I'll be able to resolve it, but it definitely will happen sometime over the next few weeks. The Codeplex site will have the details.

For now I can only suggest doing full exports.

Thanks for the reports.

Chris.

Chris - I am experiencing the same issue as Sean r...

2009-11-09T17:03:34.067Z

Chris - I am experiencing the same issue as Sean regarding the incremental export. A little more detail: I'm using version 2.7 of the wizard, exporting from a MOSS 2007 SP2 document workspace with several DWS subsites. The subsites are based on a saved template, permissions inheritence is broken, and there are event receivers on some of the libraries that are part of the saved template. Other than that there is not anything special about the sites. I have had success on this site doing full deploys. I have also tried making changes and then trying the incrememntal after a full, but the same same issue occurs. Hopefully that helps? Thanks, Dave

@Archeious the Librarian, When importing, the val...

2009-11-06T10:21:57.068Z

@Archeious the Librarian,

When importing, the values to use should be:

- Site URL: the URL for the site collection e.g. http://intranet/
- Import web URL: the URL for the site within the site collection e.g. http://intranet/hr/

Hope that makes sense.

Chris.

@Sean, Sorry for the delay, have been travelling ...

2009-10-26T00:34:30.631Z

@Sean,

Sorry for the delay, have been travelling back from the big SharePoint Conference. I can't seem to recreate this, but I'll keep trying - in the meantime, can you explain more about what environments you have/where you're doing the export/import etc?

Thanks,

Chris.

Thanks for replying so promptly, Chris. Yes, I am ...

2009-10-22T09:58:33.782+01:00

Thanks for replying so promptly, Chris. Yes, I am using the 2.5 beta of the wizard. I have now tried doing another full export and making changes, and I'm getting the same again. Not helpful, am I!!!

Thanks for your help....

Sean