Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

SharePoint Content Deployment and the Migration API

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re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

yair — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:52:18 GMT

Grate post, thanks.

But, what if my manifast.xml files weighs over 200 MB?

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

Stefan_Gossner — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:57:14 GMT

Hi Yair,

it shouldn't matter. But if you are concerned about this use the FileMaxSize export property.

This also controls the size of the generated manifest.

So you will end up with multiple manifest files then.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

Luis Sousa — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:57:38 GMT

Hi,

Your post was the best on content deployment with MOSS that I found on the internet. Better that MSDN documentation. :)

I wonder if you don't want to extend this article, with a part 5, where you can explain which of these features are available and work in websites with variations.

Congratulations!

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re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

Dragan Panjkov — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:42:29 GMT

Hi, Stefan!

Can you explain why I receive some error messages on trying to migrate content between two MOSS machines. First machine was installed on english SKU, with 3 variations: english, serbian-latin and serbian-cyrillic. On that installation I installed language pack for serbian-latin when it became available. Second machine (destination) is empty moss with english sku and serbian language pack.

Here are error details:

Could not find language Serbian (Latin, Serbia). at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.ImportRequirementsManager.VerifyInstalledLanguage(String id, String name) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.ImportRequirementsManager.VerifyLanguage(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()

Thanks!

Dragan

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

Stefan_Gossner — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:20:54 GMT

Hi Dragan,

you need to install the same language pack on both machines.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

Nita Arvind — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:18:26 GMT

Hi Stefan,

Me team is in a fix. We have some documents in a folder structure in a Content Management Application called Plumtree. Some of these Word documents have hyperlinks to eachother.

The requirement is for us to move these files and the folder structure as it is to a document library in sharepoint- this we are able to accomplish.

The next phase of the requirement was to update the hyperlinks in the documents with the new sharepoint URL. We are able to accomplish this in most cases using the SPfile.ReplaceLink function. But there are instances where this fails.

Eg: OLD URL: www.google.com?id=123

NEW URL: www.yahoo.com

It does nothing.

Is there something we might be doing wrong.

It works fine in cases where :

OLD URL: www.google.com/games.html

NEW URL: www.yahoo.com

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

Stefan_Gossner — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:16:54 GMT

Hi Nita,

please open a support case for this.

This needs to be analyzed in more details.

Cheers,

Stefan

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re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

AllTec — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 03:03:40 GMT

I want to migrate my content(documents in folder structure) from plumtree to MOSS 2007. How I should go ahead with this migration?

Thanks

AllTec

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

Stefan_Gossner — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:28:56 GMT

Hi AllTec,

you would need to create a Content Deployment and Migration Package from the Plumtree content.

So you would need to write or purchase a tool that reads the content from Plumtree and creates the package. Then import the package into SharePoint.

The schema the package content has to follow is defined here:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb249989.aspx

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

Paul — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:20:46 GMT

Hi stefan,

I like to know where the settings(e.g. authentification) for the target Sharepoint will be handled, if the target system is in a differnet domain than the source. I can´t see anything around the SPImport class that could help.

best regards

Paul

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

Stefan_Gossner — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:27:04 GMT

Hi Paul,

there seems to be a misunderstanding.

SPImport can only be used against the local machine - not remotely.

Cheers,

Stefan

Deep Dive Into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API

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

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

Michael — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:47:00 GMT

Is this an approach that could be used to export a particular content type and import it into a totally new content type?

Is there an event that could override which site column/field control the content is imported into? Or will you end up importing the content - and then changing the content types?

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

Stefan_Gossner — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:50:05 GMT

Hi Michael,

you would need to modify the export package to achieve this before importing.

Cheers,

Stefan

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

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[ 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 4

Roopa — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:41:45 GMT

Hey,

I am trying to export and import a list which is having folders and sub folders within.Can you please tell me how to import items to the respective subfolders. presently, all the items are moving to the root folder.

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

Stefan_Gossner — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:16:46 GMT

Hallo Roopa,

this is discussed in section "2) Change the Parent of the imported objects during Import" of part 3.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

roopa — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:56:09 GMT

Hey Stefan,

I have been trying to import a list.Export is goin on proper but, while import the following error is logged in :

------------------------------------------------

[10/21/2008 1:42:54 PM]: Start Time: 10/21/2008 1:42:54 PM.

[10/21/2008 1:42:54 PM]: Progress: Initializing Import.

[10/21/2008 1:42:54 PM]: Progress: Starting content import.

[10/21/2008 1:42:54 PM]: Progress: De-Serializing Objects to Database.

[10/21/2008 1:42:54 PM]: Progress: Importing Folder /abc/xyz/Lists/list for calenders/Item.

[10/21/2008 1:42:55 PM]: Progress: Importing ListItem /abc/xyz/Lists/list for calenders?id=6.

[10/21/2008 1:42:55 PM]: 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.AddOrUpdateItem(String bstrUrl, String bstrListName, Boolean bAdd, Boolean bSystemUpdate, Boolean bPreserveItemVersion, Boolean bUpdateNoVersion, Int32& plID, String& pbstrGuid, Guid pbstrNewDocId, Boolean bHasNewDocId, String bstrVersion, Object& pvarAttachmentNames, Object& pvarAttachmentContents, Object& pvarProperties, Boolean bCheckOut, Boolean bCheckin, Boolean bMigration, Boolean bPublish)

at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPListItem.AddOrUpdateItem(Boolean bAdd, Boolean bSystem, Boolean bPreserveItemVersion, Boolean bNoVersion, Boolean bMigration, Boolean bPublish, Boolean bCheckOut, Boolean bCheckin, Guid newGuidOnAdd, Int32& ulID, Object& objAttachmentNames, Object& objAttachmentContents, Boolean suppressAfterEvents)

at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPListItem.UpdateInternal(Boolean bSystem, Boolean bPreserveItemVersion, Guid newGuidOnAdd, Boolean bMigration, Boolean bPublish, Boolean bNoVersion, Boolean bCheckOut, Boolean bCheckin, Boolean suppressAfterEvents)

at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPListItem.MigrationAddOrUpdate(Boolean bAddNew, Boolean bIsPublish, Guid newGuidOnAdd, Boolean bNoVersion, Boolean suppressAfterEvents)

at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.ListItemSerializer.SetObjectData(Object obj, SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext context, ISurrogateSelector selector)

[10/21/2008 1:42:55 PM]: Progress: Import Completed.

--------------------------------------------------

I have no clue why is this happening.Please do suggest what might be the reason.

Thanks in advance,

Roopa.

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

Stefan_Gossner — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:24:36 GMT

Hi Roopa,

the problem code be the last item listed in the log and with the same possibility the next item that would be imported.

To analyze this further it would be required to analyze a memory dump for this exception.

Please open a support case for this to get this analyzed in more detail.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

rajee — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:31:53 GMT

hi stefan,

I have two custom menus which will be given to the user.When two users try to run at same time it is executing only one job at a time.so how to handle this issue so that all the users are able to acess these custom menus for the deployments.Is there any way to create a job programtically.

Regards,

Rajee

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

Stefan_Gossner — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:00:12 GMT

Hi Rajee,

you need to ensure that the jobs are not running in parallel as the content deployment and migration API is not designed to run more than one job at a time.

Also: did you already check out the quick deploy function? Because what you are talking about sounds like the functionality provided by this function.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

rajee — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:39:34 GMT

hi stefan,

I tried searching for this quick deploy function but dint get any proper information on this.How to create a Quick deployment job and run that job programtically.

Cheers,

Rajee

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

Stefan_Gossner — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:54:55 GMT

Hi Rajee,

the quick deploy job gets automatically created when you create a content deployment path between two site collections where the source site collection has the publishing feature enabled.

A publishing site collection is required for this feature. You cannot use it with team sites (e.g.)

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

rajee — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:26:46 GMT

hi stefan,

In our case we have some hundereds of sites which will have pages library.on those libraries we activated the custom menus.In our case we have internet users where they can move the pages to the Archival Site. I tried creating the Content Deployment path by using Central administrator.Mapping is very problematic as there are so many sites.

So is there any way to create content deployment path programtically so that we can create the path and update those details.Once deployment is done so that we can delete that path.If parallel jobs are there we will create two paths and run the job at different times.

Cheers,

Rajee

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

Stefan_Gossner — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:34:52 GMT

Hi Rajee,

it would be required to create a path that copies content into a different location of the current site.

That is not possible. Neither programmatic nor manual.

You need to do this manually using the content deployment and migration API.

I would suggest to implement the console action as an action that writes the information what to copy in a list and implement the real copy operation as custom SharePoint timer job and execute it in OWSTIMER as it is done with the other content deployment jobs. This job then has to read the list to get the info what to deploy.

Then you don't have to bother about synchronization problems between actions.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

rajee — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:52:04 GMT

Hi stefan,

Thank you so much.What ever content you have provided in this bolg is fantastic.Really very useful for the content migration.

Cheers,

Rajee

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

Rajee — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:19:53 GMT

hi stefan,

I am trying to import the Custom List Items i am getting error "Invalid Filename you specified couldn't be used.It may be the name of the exsistingfile or directory,or you may not have permission to access the file."

what could be the reason for this.

Cheers,

Rajee

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

Stefan_Gossner — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:26:12 GMT

Hi Rajee,

I haven't seen this issue.

I would suggest to open a support case to get this analyzed in more detail.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

Rajee — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:42:21 GMT

hey stefan,

We tried importing a page from One site collection to another site collection on different port.Import is sucessful but when we tried opening the page every time i am getting the "File Not found" error.

when we check the ULS Logs we are getting the error as "Medium Unknown SPRequest error occurred. More information: 0x80070002

"01/14/2009 07:27:45.00 w3wp.exe (0x0368) 0x1048 Windows SharePoint Services General 8nca Verbose Application error when access /site1/site2/site3/site4/Pages/samplepage.aspx, Error=The file /site1/_catalogs/masterpage/samplelayout.aspx does not exist.

we can see the imported page in the Pages library.

I have no clue why is this happening..Please suggest the what could be the reason for this.

Cheers,

Rajee

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

Stefan_Gossner — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:53:44 GMT

Hi Rajee,

does the page layout exist as well?

The error message indicates that the page layout is missing - not the page itself.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

Rajee — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:34:08 GMT

hi Stefan,

Page layout is there in the destination site.But when we tried opening the page we are getting this kind of Trace logs.why this page layout is not getting attached to the page which is imported in to the pages library.

Cheers,

Rajee

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

Stefan_Gossner — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:40:07 GMT

Hi Rajee,

it seems it is attached - otherwise it would not try to load it from this location. But it seems the file cannot be opened for some reason.

Please open a support case with Microsoft to analyze what is causing the issue on your site.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

STA — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:58:39 GMT

Hi Stefan,

Your post is very useful for me. I'm trying to export/import SPList from site to site. And I found that SPExportMethodType.ExportChanges cannot be used for SPList level. I think other way around is exporting site or web level with SPExportMethodType.ExportChanges. And then remove unnecessary things from manifest.xml file with eventhandler. Is it possible to do so? And I found Manifest.xml file has a lot of ObjectTypes, can I remove only ObjectType="SPList"? Please give me idea.

Thanks,

STA

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

Stefan_Gossner — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:08:57 GMT

Hi STA,

you can modify the manifest.xml file to get what you are looking for.

For details about what has to exist in the manifest file (which will allow you to decide what can be removed) can be found here:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb249989.aspx

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

STA — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:35:53 GMT

Hi Stefan,

Thanks for your advice, I have another question. I need to synchronize two lists from different sites. I wonder Content Migration API can handle deleted items or not. After I run SPImport, all the items I deleted in source site are still remaining in destination site. with SPExportMethodType.ExportChanges.

Thanks,

STA

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

Stefan_Gossner — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:08:43 GMT

Hi STA,

export changes works on SPWeb level. Then it will only export changed list items.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

Lawrence — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:44:37 GMT

Is there a way to migrate a single list item so that it updates the corresponding item in the target list rather than adding a new item to the list?

we have a customer who has their own copy of a SP site we created, and we would like to migrate any changes we make in ours to theirs. We have done some trial migrations but discovered that any updated items in our list always results in a new item in their list.

Our main issue is maintaing the list item ID. If we update item ID=12 for example in our list, we want the migration to replace ID=12 in their list, whereas at the moment it is creating ID=99 (say) and still retaining ID=12.

The reason for this is because of lookups on that list. If another list points to ID=12 then we don't want to retarget that so it points to ID=99 (unless we have to = and if so, how could we do that in bulk....?)

thanks for any guidance you can give.

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

Stefan_Gossner — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:46:52 GMT

Hi Lawrence,

updates to items are only supported with RetainObjectIdentity.

That means that the GUID and URL need to be the same on the target.

So you cannot do this together with reparenting.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

Lawrence — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:03:50 GMT

Thanks Stefan.

So as I understand it, if we used RetainObjectIdentity that would work internally where we want to migrate content between

mydomain/siteA to mydomain/siteB

but not externally for

mydomain/siteA to theirdomain/siteA

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

Stefan_Gossner — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:45:30 GMT

Hi Lawrence,

that is not correct. It will work for different domains as well.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

SHarepoInT — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:13:03 GMT

can you please give a continuos, complete, and tested code example for exporting a list item and then importing it into a different list from start to finish? i have tried desperately to piece this code together but no matter what i do i get errors. when i click 'debug' my computer bursts into flames. plz help

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

Stefan_Gossner — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:38:38 GMT

Hi SHarepoInT,

working code is below.

Cheers,
Stefan

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Text;

using Microsoft.SharePoint;

using Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment;

namespace WssOMtest

{

class Program

{

static void Main(string[] args)

{

// export

SPSite site = new SPSite("http://localhost:4000");

SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb("/");

SPList list = web.Lists["MyList"];

SPListItem listItem = list.Items[0];

SPExportObject exportObject = new SPExportObject();

exportObject.Id = listItem.UniqueId;

exportObject.Type = SPDeploymentObjectType.ListItem;

SPExportSettings exportSettings = new SPExportSettings();

exportSettings.ExportObjects.Add(exportObject);

exportSettings.FileLocation = @"c:\export\CopyListItem";

exportSettings.FileCompression = false;

exportSettings.SiteUrl = "http://localhost:4000";

SPExport export = new SPExport(exportSettings);

export.Run();

web.Dispose();

// import

SPImportSettings importSettings = new SPImportSettings();

importSettings.SiteUrl = "http://localhost:4000";

importSettings.FileLocation = @"c:\export\CopyListItem";

importSettings.FileCompression = false;

importSettings.RetainObjectIdentity = false;

SPImport import = new SPImport(importSettings);

EventHandler<SPDeploymentEventArgs> startedEventHandler = new EventHandler<SPDeploymentEventArgs>(OnStarted);

import.Started += startedEventHandler;

import.Run();

// cleanup

site.Dispose();

}

// event handler to assign a new parent to the orphaned image in the package

static void OnStarted(object sender, SPDeploymentEventArgs args)

{

SPSite site = new SPSite("http://localhost:4000");

SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb("/PressReleases");

SPList list = web.Lists["TargetList"];

SPImportObjectCollection rootObjects = args.RootObjects;

foreach (SPImportObject io in rootObjects)

{

io.TargetParentUrl = list.RootFolder.ServerRelativeUrl;

}

web.Dispose();

site.Dispose();

}

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

Rajee — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:13:37 GMT

hi stefan,

We are facing one critical problem while importing the page into another Webapplication

Below is the Error Log for that

The Web application at http://son15873:22232/dealer/uskw/en/parts/supplierdocumentation/srdview1 could not be found. Verify that you have typed the URL correctly. If the URL should be serving existing content, the system administrator may need to add a new request URL mapping to the intended application.

Please suggest what might be reason for this?

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

Stefan_Gossner — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:49:21 GMT

Hi Rajee,

I assume you already verified that the URL is valid, right? I haven't seen this error in such a situation. 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 4

SHarepoInT — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:03:56 GMT

Hey Stefan,

Do you know if there's a way to retain permissions on a list item through this process? I've tried using IncludeSecurity = SPIncludeSecurity.All on export and import but it doesnt look like that has anything to do with permissions. Is there another setting or combination of settings that does this?

Thanks

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

SHarepoInT — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:05:07 GMT

To update my last post, It turns out that IncludeSecurity = SPIncludeSecurity.All IS the way to retain permssions. The problem I'm having is that it doesnt work if the source and target are in different application pools. Neither does copying role assignments one by one, or pretty much anything else item, list, web, site, or sharepoint related. So, if you happen to know a way to get permissions across application pools that would be great but this probably isnt import/export related anymore so I'll understand if it doesnt get much attention

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

Stefan_Gossner — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:03:27 GMT

Hi SHarepoInT,

this should work if you set SPImportUserInfoDateTime to ImportAll.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

SharePoint List Migration — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 23:46:31 GMT

Stefan,

I want to start off by thanking you for all the time and effort spent sharing your expertise with the SharePoint community.

The Problem: Migrating ListItems between two sites (A -> B) while preserving ID and author/editor info. The content type of List B is different from List A (B has additional columns defined).

From your posts my understanding is that: 1) ListItem ID can be preserved setting RetainObjectIdentity = true (does this only preserve List GUID or also ListItem IDs?)

2) Author/editor info can be preserved using the UserInfoDateTime setting.

Is it possible to leverage the migration api if there are differences between original and destination list content types? Are there alternatives?

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

Stefan_Gossner — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:45:01 GMT

Hi,

1) it will preserve the GUID of list and item. I don't think it will preserve the integer ID of the item. That can change when being imported on the target

2) no that is not possible.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

SharePoint List Migration — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:15:12 GMT

Thanks for the prompt reply.

To clarify point 2)

You are saying that there is no way to use the migration api if:

Source List (field A, field B) and

Destination List (field A, field B, field C)

I cannot import only field A and field B data to the destination list?

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

Stefan_Gossner — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:36:11 GMT

In case that the target list has the same columns plus some additional it will work. Means the additional columns are empty.

But you cannot remap the columns from one column to another one.

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

Narendra — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:19:03 GMT

Stefan,

I have a MOSS installation for intranet and we are planning to use WSS for internet web facing site. The WSS is sitting at some hosting provider. Could I be able to export my MOSS content to the external facing WSS site using the technics that you are showing here.

Thanking you

Narendra

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

Stefan_Gossner — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:32:38 GMT

Hi Narendra,

only if the site does not use any MOSS specific features.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

Narendra — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:41:04 GMT

Hi Stefan,

Some where you said,

SPImport can only be used against the local machine - not remotely.

I thought content won't be copying accross domains!

Thanks for this.

Second question,

How can I do this :) Little bit of insights please.

Thanking you very much.

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

Stefan_Gossner — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:56:17 GMT

Hi Narendra,

the info is correct. SPImport can only be used against the local farm. But you can copy on one farm, transfer the package to the target farm and then run SPImport there.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

Mon, 25 May 2009 16:38:28 GMT

Hi Stefan,

Do you have any idea how to get backward links from other SPWebApplications? The BackwardLinks collection doesnt include them.

I'm thinking about trying to use a search but I thought I'd ask in case you know an easier way.

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

Stefan_Gossner — Mon, 25 May 2009 16:54:30 GMT

Hi,

SharePoint manages links only within the same site collection. Links to other site collections are treated as external links. You will not find them in the BackwardLinks collection.

For such links you would need to implement your own link management.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

Frankie — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 06:33:17 GMT

Dear Stefan,

How are you doing? I have a question need you to clarify as below:

As you mentioned "Content deployment will always import all objects included in the export package." If there is a page edited by user and is still waiting for approval, it will also be exported when the deployment job run, is it right? If the answer is yes, then when it be imported on produciton server, the page will show error and could not be opened coz it's not a publish page. How we could handle this? Should we using the "Started" event handler and remove all objects from the package that should not be imported.

Please give advise. Many thanks!

Frankie

re: Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 4

Stefan_Gossner — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:24:38 GMT

Hi Frankie,

it will be as on the source site. If the page is not approved the latest approved version will show up for users with only read permission.

Cheers,

Stefan