Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

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Fantastic, incredibly detailed, content on content deployment by Stefan

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re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

David Remillard — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:43:06 GMT

I'm having difficulty with export/import of a site from one farm to another. The problem has to do with the Data View Web Parts that are in the site. Apparently, they persist reference to the GUID of the datasource (list)? Do you have any guidance for this scenario? Thanks.

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Stefan_Gossner — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:10:53 GMT

Hi David,

is the list the data view web part points to also in the package?

Anyway: I would suggest to open a support call to get investigated if this should work or not.

I personally haven't looked into the details of this till now.

Cheers,

Stefan

Brilliant and detailed view of content management API

Mirrored Blogs — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 18:11:13 GMT

Stefan Goßner has put together a terrific 4-part series on the SharePoint Content and Deployment API

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Deployment using STSADM export or content migration API

Mirrored Blogs — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 02:47:24 GMT

Having focused on deployment using Features for several articles, back in May I wrote an article titled

STSADM export, Content Deployment, Content Migration API, Features/Solutions - deployment options compared

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Back in May I wrote a post titled SharePoint deployment options : Features or Content Deployment? , which

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Jenny — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 20:40:11 GMT

Can you deploy content from a MOSS environment to a WSS environement?

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Stefan_Gossner — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 23:00:31 GMT

Hi Jenny,

MOSS is on top of WSS. As long as you are only using WSS features in the deployed content it will work. As soon as you are trying to deploy content that is bound to features which are only available in MOSS it will fail.

Cheers,

Stefan

Content Migration in SharePoint

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Around the time work started on a long whitepaper about migrating content files from SharePoint server

Content Migration in SharePoint

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Around the time work started on a long whitepaper about migrating content files from SharePoint server

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

gbelzile — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:33:41 GMT

FYI... the diagram is truncated on the right.

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Stefan_Gossner — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:07:16 GMT

Maybe on your screen.

Not with a screen width of 1200 and more.

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Bramley — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:58:21 GMT

Hi Stefan

I have been working with content deployment in MOSS2007. It worked well before. Currently I'm getting the following error:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

- <ArrayOfReportMessage xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">

<ReportMessage Title="Failed to create package file. at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.ExportDataFileManager.<>c__DisplayClass2.<Compress>b__0() at Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities.SecurityContext.RunAsProcess(CodeToRunElevated secureCode) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.ExportDataFileManager.Compress(SPRequest request) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.SPExport.Run() *** Inner exception: Unknown compression type in a cabinet folder at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest.BuildCabinetFile(String bstrTempDirectory, String bstrCabFileLocation, UInt32 uMaxCabFileSize) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.ExportDataFileManager.<>c__DisplayClass2.<Compress>b__0()" Time="2008-01-29T13:40:35.5170828Z" Severity="Error" Phase="ExportInProgress" />

</ArrayOfReportMessage>

Here is the scenario:

I have just completed installing wss service pack 1, and MOSS 2007. The replication now gives the error above. My topology is as follows: I have two farms located in different located geographically. It was working before. This is a full-deployment not incremental.

please help

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Stefan_Gossner — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:54:00 GMT

Hi Bramley,

please open a support case for this. This is not an issue I have heard about till now.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Bramley — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:03:20 GMT

Hi Stefan

Do you think this has any thing to do with compression of files. How can I remove compression. I'm using MOSS - Central Administration for content deployment. This issue affect the increment updates. I get the following error for incremental:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

- <ArrayOfReportMessage xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">

</ArrayOfReportMessage>

Any help will do.

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Stefan_Gossner — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:07:26 GMT

Hi Bramley,

sure it is related to compression. The error message implies this.

The error for the incremental deployment indicates that your database is older than the last deployment.

This can happen if you have restored an older backup of the database. Then the deployment job definition does no longer fit to the source database.

Cheers,

Stefan

SharePoint列表导入/导出命令

Eric.Chai — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:21:59 GMT

在使用SharePoint的时候我们常常需要做这样一个操作：把某个列表（或文档库）从一个网站转移到另一个网站上去。

比较常见的做法是，把这个列表存为模板文件，然后再在新的网站位置创建一遍。但这种方法...

Deep Dive Into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API

Mike's Blog — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:53:45 GMT

Stefan Goßner posted a great series of posts about the Content Migration API (formerly known as PRIME

New version of Content Deployment Wizard released

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I'm happy to announce that development/testing of the next version of the SharePoint Content Deployment

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Ramesh — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:45:32 GMT

I've a big problem in the stsadm -restore command

We only had Site collection backups and we need one site the user deleted from the backup

We did the backup in the production server and one of the user deleted the site(:)) and we’re trying to get the site backup.

When we try to restore we're getting the following error

C:\Documents and Settings\rameshk>stsadm -o restore -url http://localhost -filename z:\projects.bak -overwrite

Your backup is from a different version of Windows SharePoint Services and cannot be restored to a server running the current version. The backup file should be restored to a server with version '3701403.0.1196032409.29915337' or later.

I saw few post on this error.

http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/archive/2007/05/22/understanding-and-handling-microsoft-it-site-delete-capture-1-0-archives.aspx - I did install the MSITDelete Site capture on my local machine. Not sure that is the problem. If only have installed this the production, that would have saved almost two days and still no postive results

http://serverdays.com/2007/08/10/problems-using-stsadm-to-backup-windows-sharepoint-services-30/

But not any solutions though. I don't know whether Microsoft knows about this or something I'm not doing correctly.

And by the way, if I have backup using stsadm can I read it using Content API or any other tool which wil read the data and restore it

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Ramesh

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Stefan_Gossner — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:49:01 GMT

Hi Ramesh,

this message means that the backup has been taken using SQL methods - not using STSADM -o backup.

You need to restore it using SQL methods. You cannot restore a SQL backup with STSADM.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Vedanshu — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:48:17 GMT

Hi,

I am using Microsoft.Sharepoint.Deployment classes to create archives of sites using the code mentioned below. It used to work previously, but has started throwing the following exception

Failed to create package file

Unknown compression type in a cabinet folder

at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest.BuildCabinetFile(String bstrTempDirectory, String bstrCabFileLocation, UInt32 uMaxCabFileSize) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.ExportDataFileManager.<>c__DisplayClass2.<Compress>b__0()

Here's the code that I am using

SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(delegate()

{

using (SPSite site = new SPSite(url))

{

using (SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb())

{

string strBackupfile = web.Title + ".cmp";

SPExportSettings exportSettings = new SPExportSettings();

if (ExportAll)

exportSettings.ExportMethod = SPExportMethodType.ExportAll;

else

exportSettings.ExportMethod = SPExportMethodType.ExportChanges;

exportSettings.BaseFileName = strBackupfile;

exportSettings.FileLocation = "C:\\";

exportSettings.ExcludeDependencies = false;

exportSettings.IncludeSecurity = SPIncludeSecurity.All;

if (IncludeAllVersions)

exportSettings.IncludeVersions = SPIncludeVersions.All;

else

exportSettings.IncludeVersions = SPIncludeVersions.CurrentVersion;

exportSettings.SiteUrl = url;

exportSettings.ExcludeDependencies = false;

exportSettings.CommandLineVerbose = false;

exportSettings.FileCompression = true;

exportSettings.OverwriteExistingDataFile = true;

SPExportObject ob = new SPExportObject();

ob.Type = SPDeploymentObjectType.Web;

ob.ExcludeChildren = false;

ob.Id = web.ID;

exportSettings.ExportObjects.Add(ob);

exportSettings.Validate();

SPExport export = new SPExport(exportSettings);

//export.Completed += new EventHandler<SPDeploymentEventArgs>(export_Completed);

//Run the damn thing.

export.Run();

//context.Undo();

}

});

This works correctly if I set exportSettings.FileCompression to false. I have recently installed WSS and MOSS service packs. Can you please help me out?

Thanks

Vedanshu

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Stefan_Gossner — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:04:03 GMT

Hi Vedanshu,

this is a common error if the compression fails due to insufficient disk space.

Please monitor the available disk space during export.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Vedanshu — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:52:13 GMT

Hi Stefan,

I am running this process on a test site which is just a basic collaboration portal. The process used to work fine before we installed Sharepoint service packs. During those test runs, the size of archives created was less than 10MB with the available disk space being close to 22GB. So I guess disk space should not have been a problem. I have also tried it with different filetypes (.cmp, .cab etc.)but have not been able to run it with compression enabled. The process works correctly if exportsettings.FileCompression is set to false.

Thanks

Vedanshu

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Stefan_Gossner — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:15:03 GMT

Hi Vedanshu,

please monitor the space on ALL your disks - not only the destiation disk where the final package should be created.

During export the files are temporarily created on the drive where the TMP environment variable points to.

Cheers,

Stefan

Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 6

Stefan Goßner — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:37:38 GMT

[ Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 ] Requirements for a successful content deployment

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

akhanna — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:57:41 GMT

Hi Stefan,

I have a timer job running which uses export settings class and creates a content package for all the items in a document library.

Now users upload files in this document library and I want only the approved items should be exported.

If I SPIncludeVersions.LastMajor , and I have anything where approval status is pending, I get the error message that

The object with Id<Guid) that was configured as part of the Export Settings no longer exists.

If I change SPIncludeVersions.CurrentVersion then it exports all items even if the approval status is pending.

what do I need to do that people can upload to this list and only documents with status of approved are exported.

Thanks In Advance.

Cheers

Ajay

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Stefan_Gossner — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:54:59 GMT

Hi Akhanna,

the error should not occur. Please open a support case to get this problem analyzed.

Thanks,

Stefan

Fantastic article on WSS content migration / MOSS content deployment API

Andrew Connell [MVP MOSS] — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:31:48 GMT

Fantastic article on WSS content migration / MOSS content deployment API

Mirrored Blogs — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:49:55 GMT

If you've been under a rock like I have apparently over the last few months, you might not have noticed

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Kieran — Mon, 05 May 2008 11:15:42 GMT

Hi Stefan

Would you suggest using SharePoint content deployment to move new sites/sub-sites and content types created by users from their local virtual development environment?

Best Regards

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Stefan_Gossner — Mon, 05 May 2008 12:56:38 GMT

Hi Kieran,

sites and sub-sites: yes

Content types: no. These should be deployed using custom features. Not using content deployment.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

jinzhuli — Thu, 08 May 2008 04:43:40 GMT

Hi Stefan

I have a problem when i use Export to Backup a Web . Error Message: Failed to backup the web. Reason: Export ran out of memory while compressing a very large file. To successfully export, turn compression off by specifying the -nofilecompression parameter.

Thanks

jinzhuli

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Stefan_Gossner — Thu, 08 May 2008 09:51:16 GMT

Hi Jinzhuli,

the solution is clear: either go to a 64-bit environment where no similar memory limitations exist or use the parameter above to disable compression.

Cheers,

Stefan

Pimp My Content Deployment Job

Stefan Goßner — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:51:49 GMT

As a follow up to my article series about the content deployment and migration API here are some tips

SharePoint Site vs. Web exports/imports and Custom Layout Pages

kindohm.com — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:28:25 GMT

SharePoint Site vs. Web exports/imports and Custom Layout Pages

SharePoint Content Deployment API Article Series

Mirrored Blogs — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:34:31 GMT

Body: If you are deploying SharePoint you should take some time and read the following WSS/MOSS Content

SPExportObject members

Timothy — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:27:48 GMT

Can someone explain the difference between ExcludeChildren and IncludeDescendants?

Thanks

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Stefan_Gossner — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:21:10 GMT

Hi Timothy,

I have explained this in part 2.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Ajay Khanna — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:49:20 GMT

Hi Stefan,

I just read on a blog that Sharepoint designer workflows do not get migrated by Content Deployment... is this true?

Please advise/confirm...

Thanks

Ajay

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Stefan_Gossner — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:13:05 GMT

Hi Ajay,

content deployment deploys content. Not other things. Workflows should in general be deployed using features. With SPD workflows you might have to recreate the workflow on the target if really required.

As content should only be changed on the source and not on the target to ensure that content deployment works reliable might not make sense on the target anyway as workflows are used when content gets changed.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Rahul Singh — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:39:16 GMT

Hi,

I am using the content migration API to import and export large video files (50-500 MB).

I am getting following error when one of the larger files around 300 MB are being attached : "Insufficient memory to continue the execution of the program. at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequestInternalClass.AddOrUpdateItem"

I have 2GB ram and x86 processor. This problem only occurs on 32 bit processors. Its working fine with x64 architecture.

I am using an external blog storage API to store these large files.

Please advise!!

Regards,

Rahul Singh

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Stefan_Gossner — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:01:38 GMT

Hi Rahul,

are you doing this in a console application or in a web application?

In general it sounds like a design limitation. MOSS loads all items into memory before writing to the it to the database. Content deployment and migration API has a large memory footprint itself. With so large objects it might be that the 2 GB virtual memory per process (800 MB for ASP.NET application) is not sufficient. 64-bit is then the solution to go.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

shobha — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:53:43 GMT

I m getting this error :

Progress: Importing ListItem /sites/components/MigratedUD?id=46.

[11/12/2008 10:56:41 AM]: Error: Invalid file name

The file name you specified could not be used. It may be the name of an existing file or directory, or you may not have permission to access the file.

at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest.CreateOrUpdateFileAndItem(String bstrUrl, String bstrWebRelativeUrl, Guid& docId, Object varDoc, Int32 docLength, Int32 exists, String bstrCreatedBy, String bstrModifiedBy, Int32 iCreatedByID, Int32 iModifiedByID, Int32 iVersion, Object varTimeCreated, Object varTimeLastModified, Object varProperties, String checkInComment, Int32 docLibRowID, String bstrListName, UInt32& pdwVirusCheckStatus, String& pVirusCheckMessage)

at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.FileSerializer.CreateOrUpdateFileWithGuid(SPFileStream spstm, SPWeb web, Guid fileId, String fileUrl, SPUser author, SPUser editor, String checkinComment, DateTime timeCreated, DateTime timeLastModified, MetaInfoHandler metaInfo, FileInfo fileInfo, Int32 iVersion, Boolean isFirstVersion, SPImportSettings settings, Int32 listItemId, String listInternalName)

Thanks in advance

Shobha

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Stefan_Gossner — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:19:26 GMT

Hi Shobha,

you are trying to import into a not empty database. An item with the same name but with different GUID is already in the database and that causes the problem.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Intekhab — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 09:51:38 GMT

how could we migrate list without list item?

How could we migrate list item version(list items are not files)?

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Stefan_Gossner — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 10:57:02 GMT

Hi Intekhab,

you need to deploy the SPList object without Decendents.

For the list items with version you need to pick each SPList item separately and set SPExportSettings.IncludeVersions according to your needs.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Intekhab — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:27:15 GMT

hi Stefan,

when i am exporting list items, in which one is folder and under this folder there is list item.

i am getting this error

FatalError: Violation of PRIMARY KEY constraint 'PK__#ExportObjects____124F33FC'

. Cannot insert duplicate key in object 'dbo.#ExportObjects'.

The statement has been terminated.

Regards

Intekhab

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Stefan_Gossner — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:08:21 GMT

Hi Intekhab,

a fix for this has been released a year ago or so.

Please ensure to have SP1 + December Cumulative Update for WSS and MOSS installed.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Varun — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:13:58 GMT

Hi,

I am using the content migration API along with retain ID's to handle list's along with attachments.

I am exporting lot of list items together, Is there any way that i can perform some operations on these items just before importing using Content migration API by only using the export file.

I tried using the Started event handler with the API but it didn't work, I am looking for an event handler like ObjectImporting which will be called just before an object is about to be imported.

Please suggest!

Regards

Varun

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Stefan_Gossner — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:46:34 GMT

Hi Varun,

afaik that cannot be done when using the option to retains object identity.

Cheers,

Stefan

Content Deployment basics Sharepoint 2007 (MOSS)

Microsoft Tech Blogs — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:26:35 GMT

Following are some of the things that I learned while doing the content deployment for one of my customers:

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Sunil — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 11:06:01 GMT

Hello Stefan,

Just wanted to know "Does SPExport support multiple parallel jobs?" In other words is this class thread safe?

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Stefan_Gossner — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:21:50 GMT

Hi Sunil,

it is not a matter of this object. WSS itself does not properly handle parallel execution of multiple export operations for the same database.

With other words: as long as the source databases are different you can execute them in parallel. But if the export should be for the same database you need to serialize them to avoid random errors.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Lili Wei — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:20:11 GMT

Hi Stefan,

When we try to Export/Import a root site collection from one web application to another on the same server, the export task is finished successfully but when import the .cmp file, error happens:

[3/18/2009 9:42:10 AM]: Progress: Importing List List Template Gallery.

[3/18/2009 9:42:11 AM]: Progress: Importing List Master Page Gallery.

[3/18/2009 9:42:12 AM]: FatalError: Value does not fall within the expected range.

at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFileCollection.get_Item(String urlOfFile)

at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPContentTypeCollection.Add(SPContentType contentType)

at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.ContentTypeSerializer.CreateContentType(SPContentType sourceContentType)

Any ideas? Thanks a lot.

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Stefan_Gossner — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:59:40 GMT

Hi Lili,

please open a support case with Microsoft to get this analyzed.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Lili Wei — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:20:20 GMT

Hi Stefan,

We encounter another error when import a root site collection from source server to destination server. Here's error message:

[4/2/2009 4:58:27 PM]: Start Time: 4/2/2009 4:58:27 PM.

[4/2/2009 4:58:27 PM]: Progress: Initializing Import.

[4/2/2009 4:58:32 PM]: FatalError: Could not find Feature DataConnectionLibrary.

at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.ImportRequirementsManager.VerifyFeatureDefinition(SPRequirementObject reqObj)

at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.ImportRequirementsManager.Validate(SPRequirementObject reqObj)

at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.ImportRequirementsManager.DeserializeAndValidate()

at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.SPImport.VerifyRequirements()

at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.SPImport.Run()

[4/2/2009 4:58:33 PM]: Progress: Import Completed.

[4/2/2009 4:58:33 PM]: Finish Time: 4/2/2009 4:58:33 PM.

[4/2/2009 4:58:33 PM]: Completed with 0 warnings.

[4/2/2009 4:58:33 PM]: Completed with 1 errors.

We checked that the folder "DataConnectionLibrary" existed under C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\TEMPLATE\FEATURES on destination server. I find out the solution on internet, which is to deactive the "DataConnectionLibrary" feature before export by command "stsadm -o deactivatefeature -name DataConnectionLibrary -url http://weburl -force

". Is there any better way to fix it? Thanks a lot.

Best regards,

Lili Wei

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Stefan_Gossner — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:30:50 GMT

Hi Lili,

just having the folder does not mean that the feature is installed.

You need to run STSADM -o installfeature ... to install the feature after copying the files to the folder.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Anand — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:20:41 GMT

Hi Stefan,

Is it possible to create a new page in production server with site collection administrator permission.

I am facing this problem. I sucessfully created a new site but if i want to create a new page then it is redirecting to access denied page.(I am having site collection admin permission This production collection is in different box and it is deployed through content deployment job).

Regards

Anand

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Stefan_Gossner — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:34:01 GMT

Hi Anand,

this sounds like a known issue that was fixed in the February CU.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Anand — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:39:29 GMT

Thanks for your reply Stefan,

Can you give more details abouts this February CU. Do we need to run any service packs to fix this issue. Please suggest me.

Regards

Anand

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Stefan_Gossner — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:51:09 GMT

Hi Anand,

Service Pack 1 + the February CU will be required.

In addition some steps are required to fix your existing database.

So please open a support Case with Microsoft to get the tools to fix this.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Intekhab — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:05:36 GMT

Hi Stefan,

Can we change any file(.aspx page) at the time of importing?

In which event we have to anchor our code?

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Intekhab — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:06:42 GMT

Not importing, at the time of exporting.

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Stefan_Gossner — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:24:37 GMT

Hi Intekhab,

intersting question! Not directly on export - but afterwards.

During export you could register to the following event to achieve what you are looking for:

export.Compressing: here you can see the exported content before it is compressed into the cab file in a flat directory and are able to manipulate them (you would have to check in the manifest file which of the binaries relates to which file as the name changes. e.TempDirectoryPath will contain the directory that holds all the data.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Intekhab — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:20:56 GMT

Hi Stefan,

These list items are the hook in my neck. When i am migrating the site all the list items get duplicated each time.i know that this is the default behaviour of CMP API but is there any way to get rid while migrating the site? Please suggest something...

I googled for the same but all in vain

Regards

Intekhab

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Stefan_Gossner — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:45:06 GMT

Hi Intekhab,

this is by design if RetainObjectIdentity is false.

Setting this to true will avoid this problem.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Anand — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:59:33 GMT

Hi Stefan,

This question is not related to content deployment issue, but i want to know if we modify any oob forms(eg: Workflow.aspx in 12 hive) and if we install service pack or patchs then what ever we have modified to the workflow.aspx will remain same or a new form will replace the older one. Please suggest me regarding this

Regards

Srivatsa

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Stefan_Gossner — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:06:18 GMT

Hi Srivatsa,

modifying these files is unsupported.

Hotfixes and service packs could overwrite these files - or even worth: in some situations might not update the files which would mean that you end up with a mix of patches.

Before installing a fix you have to replace all modified files with the original version and then replace the fix to ensure that the hotfix installer can create a supported state.

Cheers,

Stefan

Bitácora de una migración SharePoint 2007

Manolo Herrera — Sat, 30 May 2009 07:40:21 GMT

SharePoint tiene un API para migrar contenido efectivo y poderoso.  Dentro del ensamblado Microsoft

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Srivatsa — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:27:52 GMT

Hi Stefan,

I have two site collection, one is autuoring site and a production site and I am running content deployment job from authoring to production.

The question I activate one of the OOB feature at the site collection and run the content deployment job to a blank site collection. At that time it will activate all the features which are activated in the souce site.

After that i will deactivate one of the feature and run the content deployment job then deactivated feature wont be deactivated at the destination site. It will show the status as activated only.

How can we avoid this?

Regards

Sri

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Stefan_Gossner — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:28:15 GMT

Hi Sri,

this cannot be prevented. It is by design. Content deployment does not explicit feature deactivation. It only activates features on site level that are activated when the site is provisioned.

If features need to be deactivated on the target you have to do this manually or using a script.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Sri — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 07:13:04 GMT

Hi Stefan,

We are moving mcms application to Moss 2007 and it went sucessfully, but the problem is web parts are not displaying properly. All web parts are coming one below the other instead of one beside the other.I am guessing this is related to page layouts only. Just i wanted to know whether this migration does not support the page layouts.

Regards

sri

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Stefan_Gossner — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:17:55 GMT

Hi Sri,

the template code is not migrated. A page layout is automatically generated for each template definition.

You need to adjust the page layouts to your needs afterwards manually.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Sara Tenenbaum — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:29:15 GMT

Hi Stefan,

Do content types transfer over together with the rest of the site? (You mentioned needing a feature, but these are just part of the regular content type list). Is there a way to retain the GUIDs of the lists?

Thanks so much

Sara

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Stefan_Gossner — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:40:28 GMT

Hi Sara,

yes, content types are transferred.

to retain the guid use RetainObjectIdentity as discussed in part 3.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Sara Tenenbaum — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:55:15 GMT

Hi again,

Thanks for the extra quick reply! and for a fantastic group of posts. This is one part of SharePoint that I am looking forward when it matures. I am transferring a site with some nice XSL and hopefully this will help.

Best,

Sara

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Vedanshu Mandvikar — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:47:51 GMT

Hi Stefan,

Can I import a CMP file created on a 32 bit SharePoint server installation on a 64 bit SharePoint installation.

Thanks

Vedanshu

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Stefan_Gossner — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:54:00 GMT

Hi Vedanshu,

yes this is possible.

Cheers,

STefan

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Ashish T — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:03:56 GMT

Hi Stefan,

I have variation site structure as VariationRootsite then english and french site in parallen with in the same web application. I have a list say EnglishTest in english and want to move the list items from to EnglishTest list french site FrenchTest List. both lists has same template. I want to move list items from english site to french site. We want to retain object identity so that during next export-import operation the if any item in the english site being updated then it will reflect the update on the same item in french site also. Help is appriciated.

Thanks.

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Stefan_Gossner — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:13:22 GMT

Hi Ashish,

variation ensures that if an item updated in the source label gets sync'ed with the items in the target.

You don't have to bother about this.

As the items in the different labels have different URLs it is impossible to use RetainObjectIdentity here.

Moss deals with this by using a relationship list which binds source items to target items.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Ashish T — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:12:58 GMT

Hi Stefan, Thanks for the reply.

We have one more case. We have two site collection s in the same web application in same language. We want to keep few lists of SiteCollection2 in sync with the same lists of Sitecollection1. We want to migrate list items only using content migration APIs. we want to update the items also when they got updated in SiteCollection1. could you guide us how to get the same?

Thanks a lot.

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Stefan_Gossner — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:07:13 GMT

Hi Ashish,

updating items only works reliable when using RetainObjectIdentity.

Using this options has two limitations:

1) both site collections need to reside in different content databases

2) the site collection relative URL needs to be identical.

So if this can be accomplished it will work.

If not you would have to implement your own sync mechanism without using this API.

btw: why would you like to have the same data in two site collections?

You should be able to access the lists from a different site collection in your site as well.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Hafriz — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:45:06 GMT

Hi Stefan, I have this irritating error:

The connection to the destination server was lost after the remote import job was started. The import job might still succeed. Content deployment will continue to attempt to reestablish a connection with the destination server

What could be the cause of this error? Both servers are in the same zone, and are hosting the same site. The source server is basically our authoring server while the destination is production end. I have deleted this job and path and recreated but i keep getting the same error.

Appreciate ur help in advance.

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Stefan_Gossner — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 22:21:28 GMT

Hi Hafriz,

sounds like a network problem.

Please check if you can see and problems in the IIS log of the target central admin site.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Phong — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:51:11 GMT

I am also getting this error with the content deployment:

It's stuck on "Running" for over 3 days now. It doesn't give me the option to stop it or delete it. How do I get rid of it?

Thanks in advance!

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1

Stefan_Gossner — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:18:53 GMT

Hi Phong,

if it is stuck on importing you can resolve this using the following steps:

1) navigate to http://central-admin-url/lists/content%20deployment%20jobs

2) edit the list item with the same name as the stuck job

3) change the value of the "LastStatus" field to "13"

4) navigate back to the content deployment paths and jobs page and you should have the option "Check Status" again.

5) do the check status and you will see if the job has succeeded or failed.

Cheers,

Stefan