Pimp My Content Deployment Job

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re: Pimp My Content Deployment Job

Robert — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:33:24 GMT

Thank you, very helpful - BUT I get this error (I have Sharepoint Servcie Pack 1 installed and version 12.0.6211.1000 of Sharepoint.Publishing dll, also checked with Reflector can not find type: RetrySectionHandler). Any help is appreciated.

The ERROR:

An error occurred creating the configuration section handler for SharePoint/ExportRetrySettings: Could not load type 'Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Administration.RetrySectionHandler' from assembly 'Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c'.

Content Deployment Problems with MOSS and IIS 7

Stefan Goßner — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:29:06 GMT

Yesterday a colleague (Patrick Heyde) solved an interesting problem with MOSS 2007 and IIS 7 related

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re: Pimp My Content Deployment Job

Stefan_Gossner — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:09:10 GMT

Hi Robert,

sounds as if you have hotfix mixture. Retry comes with build 6315.5000 - not before. So something is on 6315.5000 while other stuff is on SP1.

Please ensure to install the latest WSS and MOSS hotfixes.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Pimp My Content Deployment Job

michael — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:59:51 GMT

dude you saved my butt today with this post... along with a little more specifics from http://ecmlounge.blogspot.com/ who had the actual code for setting the FileMaxSize

though I set it to 2MB based on another post

thanks, oh great sharepoint guru

p.s. I will be using a lot more of this post in the future, too

re: Pimp My Content Deployment Job

Jason Evans — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:03:26 GMT

Hi there.

Appologies for contacting you like this, we're in a real sticky situation with a content deployment job.

I am currently running an incremental content deployment job and the SharePoint log file has manu of these in there:

10/01/2008 15:48:24.56 w3wp.exe (0x0A28) 0x0B14 CMS Content Deployment 78cf High Content Deployment Status is not available

The job status page in Central Admin never gets updated, it always says that the deployment job has been running for 3 seconds.

Can you point me to any resources that might help me resolve this? I have restarted the SharePoint timer service, but this has had no effect.

Many thanks.

Jas.

re: Pimp My Content Deployment Job

Stefan_Gossner — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:35:01 GMT

Hi Evans,

sorry I haven't seen this. I would suggest to open a support case with Microsoft to get this analyzed.

Cheers,

Stefan

Content Deployment - Best Practices

Stefan Goßner — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:42:30 GMT

In the past I have released several blogs about the various problems that can occur with Content Deployment.

Combine Site collections into one content db

akm34c — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 06:42:04 GMT

Hi Stefan,

Thank you for your posts. They are very informative. We have two separate WSS 3.0 site collections with their own content databases. I was wondering if it is possible to use the Content Deployment API to export these two site collections and import them into a new WSS 3.0 web application with a new content db. The reason we want to combine these is to allow WSS search service to be able to index and search all of the data. We would then extend this web app into a new zone to allow a different authentication method (ie forms authentication or authentication against a second Active directory). Is this solution possible using Content Deployment? Any gotchas i should be aware of? Thank you very much in advance!

re: Pimp My Content Deployment Job

Stefan_Gossner — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:18:35 GMT

Content Deployment can deploy content between different site collections.

It does not matter if these site collections are in the same or differetn content DBs.

So you can deploy two site collections which are in separate content db's into two site collections in the same content db if you like.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Pimp My Content Deployment Job

patrick — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:34:15 GMT

Hi Stefan

We pimped our content deployment job..

the export runs successfully, but when i try to import, the the import stops with the following error:

FatalError: Length cannot be less than zero.

Parameter name: length

at System.String.InternalSubStringWithChecks(Int32 startIndex, Int32 length, Boolean fAlwaysCopy)

at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.ListItemSerializer.GetLookupInfoFromFieldData(Object value, Guid& lookupListId, Int32& lookupItemId, Boolean& isUserLookup, String& userLogin, String& mvlVal)

at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.ListItemSerializer.UpdateFieldData(SPListItem listItem, ImportObjectManager objectManager, Guid docId, String fieldName, String value, String value2, Guid gFieldId, Boolean& bCreated, Dictionary`2 brokenFields)

at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.ListItemSerializer.UpdateFieldData(SPListItem listItem, Guid docId, Boolean& bCreated, SPContentTypeId contentTypeId, ImportObjectManager objectManager, Object data)

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

at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.XmlFormatter.ParseObject(Type objectType, Boolean isChildObject)

at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.XmlFormatter.DeserializeObject(Type objectType, Boolean isChildObject, DeploymentObject envelope)

at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.XmlFormatter.Deserialize(Stream serializationStream)

at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.ObjectSerializer.Deserialize(Stream serializationStream)

at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.ImportObjectManager.ProcessObject(XmlReader xmlReader)

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

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

Any Ideas?

regards

patrick

re: Pimp My Content Deployment Job

Stefan_Gossner — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:16:06 GMT

Hi Patrick,

there seems to be a problem with a lookup field.

Are you doing a full deployment of the whole site collection?

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Pimp My Content Deployment Job

Patrick — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:59:30 GMT

Thanks for the quick reply

we do an export of a Site into another site.

f.ex www.1.tld/content/ into www.2.tld/content/ with a full deployment. The problem is the same with stsadm import/export.

when i delete a subsite which occured the error, then it fails f.ex 3 sites later. all the pages have the same content type between it. i can't see any logic regarding content type or content or type of creation.

also when i try to copy one of the "error" pages to another place with the "Manage Content & Structure" i got the same problem

is there a possibilty to exactly know the field which causes the problem?

regards

patrick

re: Pimp My Content Deployment Job

Stefan_Gossner — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:41:47 GMT

Hi Patrick,

only be analyzing a memory dump.

I would suggest to open a support case with Microsoft to get this analyzed.

Cheers,

Stefan

SharePoint Content Deployment with Kerberos-enabled Farm

George Durzi — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:06:13 GMT

We're wrapping up a project where we're building a publicly accessible dot com site in SharePoint

re: Pimp My Content Deployment Job

Eddi — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:17:37 GMT

Stefan,

I need to force full content because the site collections are not the same anymore .... some stuff on the destination site is not working. Is there a way to deploy the collection completely without deleting the old one first .... it is needed there for internet purposes ....

re: Pimp My Content Deployment Job

Stefan_Gossner — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:26:38 GMT

Hi Eddi,

unfortunatelly not.

When performing a full deploy it is a va banque game.

It be that it fails - or it could be that it will not fail.

But in both cases you cannot be sure if the content on source and target is in sync again.

The only reliable method is to perform a full deploy into an empty site collection.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Pimp My Content Deployment Job

Scott Clifford — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:28:33 GMT

Hi Stefan,

Thank's for this useful series.

I may have a solution for patricks problem, after much heart ache and a few anger management sessions, we came across this blog post on the subject http://nklbala.blogspot.com/2008/09/length-cannot-be-less-than-zero-error.html

Unfortunately I have another infuriating problem, I need to export just the list items from a list and then import them into a new deployment of the list, whilst retaining the items GUIDS and IDS.

However when I attempt to do this through the api I get an error

"Cannot be imported because its parent web.. does not exist"

The web does exist and if I turn the retain identity flag off the import succeeds fine, except with new GUIDS.

Do you have any idea why this occurs? or anyway around it? the idea is we can incrementally deploy new versions of our site (new list views ect) and then migrate the content across.

Cheers,

Scott.

re: Pimp My Content Deployment Job

Stefan_Gossner — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:00:41 GMT

Hi Scott,

sorry but what you are trying to achieve is not possible.

If you use RetainObjectIdentity then the URL, the GUID and the parent object have to be the same on source and target.

If you need to change one you have to disable RetainObjectIdentity which also causes the creation of a new GUID.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Pimp My Content Deployment Job

Scott — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:43:34 GMT

Hi Stefan,

Cheers for that(Although that really sucks), we have just further investigated the error "FatalError: Length cannot be less than zero." as there were still a few lists that were giving us the lookup exception.

It turns out that a user lookup can be represented in two formats either just the user ID or the ID + # + the name +; SharePoint normally uses the full name but sometimes returns just the ID, I'm not sure why.

But anyway the import code doesn't handle the fact that there are two ways to represent a user in a user lookup and only does a lastIndexOf(";") Which gives us the index cant be less that zero exception.

So the solution is to loop through all your items and change any lookup ids to use the full shebang before you export.

This seems like a SharePoint bug to me(sigh).

re: Pimp My Content Deployment Job

Stefan_Gossner — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:46:03 GMT

Hi Scott,

sounds indeed like a problem in the code.

I would suggest to open a support case for this to request a fix.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Pimp My Content Deployment Job

Scott — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:30:23 GMT

Hi Stefan,

What in your opinion is the best way to do incremental deployments of a SharePoint project? We currently have our site as a Visual Studio Project using SharePoint extensions.

Bearing in mind migrating content with permissions, alerts, long running workflows.

Cheers,

Scott.

re: Pimp My Content Deployment Job

Stefan_Gossner — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:23:05 GMT

Hi Scott,

content deployment can only deploy what it's name says: content (including the permissions).

Alerts and workflow state cannot be deployed.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Pimp My Content Deployment Job

Scott — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:50:26 GMT

Hi Stefan,

Just encountered another bug with the content migration api. If you export List Items with versions, and then import them to a list that is version enabled. You get a Null Object Reference Exception.

It turns out that if one of the exported items does not have multiple versions the xml that is generated, misses out the version tag, this then causes the import to crash, as it's expecting version information.

Our workaround is to go update each item in the versioned list to make sure it has at least one version, though this shouldn't be necessary...

re: Pimp My Content Deployment Job

Stefan_Gossner — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:17:16 GMT

Hi Scott,

to get this fixed you would need to raise a support case.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Pimp My Content Deployment Job

Dave — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:01:15 GMT

Hi Stefan

I'm trying to create a web service that will allow us to run a pre-defined incremental deployment job remotely. Is it posible to use Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Administration.ContentDeploymentJob.Run() on the server to achieve this? I keep hitting "Item does not exist. It may have been deleted by another user" type errors which I assume are security related.

I can view the job properties and even delete it like this, but can't use .Run(), .Test() or .Update().

Is this possible or is there any other way of achieving this? The scenario is that we frequently need to deploy content to the live site but our hosting company can't allow us access to central admin as they don't want non-technical users potentially causing issues there so we're trying to provide a single web page with a single button that will let these users start an incremental update, but not give them access to anything else.

re: Pimp My Content Deployment Job

Stefan_Gossner — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:16:33 GMT

Hi Dave,

performing this would cause the content deployment export to be done in the w3wp.exe process.

It will not start the job in the OWSTIMER.EXE what you are most likely planning to do.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Pimp My Content Deployment Job

Dave — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:47:56 GMT

Cheers Stefan - So is there no way to trigger a remote content update then? How do other users get around this problem - I can't imagine we're alone in having a hosted solution and therefore not having access to central admin...

re: Pimp My Content Deployment Job

Stefan_Gossner — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:57:07 GMT

Hi Dave,

most people use the scheduling feature of content deployment.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Pimp My Content Deployment Job

Dave — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:25:37 GMT

Thats a shame - we use that already for general updates, but we have frequent time critical updates that need to be made live as soon as they've been added to the authoring site, so we can't wait for the scheduled job to run and we can't wait for our hosts to run a job manually as it takes too long. I guess the only option is to see if they'll give us central admin access after all :-(

re: Pimp My Content Deployment Job

Stefan_Gossner — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:27:24 GMT

Hi Dave,

that's what Quick Deploy covers.

Here an author can tag specific items for a quick deploy which is independent from incremental deployment schedules.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Pimp My Content Deployment Job

Dave — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:49:07 GMT

Thanks - Unfortunately that doesn't work for us as it's still a timer job (and the lowest frequency seems to be 10 minutes). As our content deployments are very time dependent we need to be able to get content onto the live site as soon as it has management approval - ie. in less than a minute. Also is it possible to deploy list items with quick deploy? I can't see any way of tagging those.

re: Pimp My Content Deployment Job

Stefan_Gossner — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:17:23 GMT

Hi Dave,

you can only tag publishing pages which will deploy the page and the linked resources.

An alternative might be not to use content deployment at all if you need such direct updates but to author directly on the live site.

Cheers,

Stefan

MOSS Content Deployment MUST READ

Raúl Ribeiro — Tue, 05 May 2009 13:17:51 GMT

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It's my life... And I live it... — Fri, 29 May 2009 03:10:17 GMT

In working with a customer we ran into this issue from MOSS Content Deployment. This is a good one to

re: Pimp My Content Deployment Job

Binay — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:27:56 GMT

Hi Stefan

We are facing wired issue after upgrading our pre-prod and production environment to SP2. We created an empty site on the destination and tried to do a full content deployment from the pre-prod environment. The import failed while importing object 742 with the following error

The local device name is already in use. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070055) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest.ThrowError(Int32 dwErr) at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPContentTypeCollection.AddContentTypeToWeb(SPContentType contentType) at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPContentTypeCollection.AddContentType(SPContentType contentType, Boolean checkName, Boolean updateResourceFileProperty) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.ContentTypeSerializer.CreateContentType(SPContentType sourceContentType) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.ContentTypeSerializer.ProcessContentType(SPContentType sourceContentType, String contentTypeXml, ImportObjectManager importObjectManager, Boolean IsParentSystemObject) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.ContentTypeSerializer.SetObjectData(Object obj, SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext context, ISurrogateSelector selector) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.XmlFormatter.ParseObject(Type objectType, Boolean isChildObject) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.XmlFormatter.DeserializeObject(Type objectType, Boolean isChildObject, DeploymentObject envelope) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.XmlFormatter.Deserialize(Stream serializationStream) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.ObjectSerializer.Deserialize(Stream serializationStream) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.ImportObjectManager.ProcessObject(XmlReader xmlReader) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.SPImport.DeserializeObjects() at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.SPImport.Run()

Checked file system, there is enough space, checked the temp folder on the import server and the cab files are copied over there. Can you please provide some pointers ?

Appreciate any help from you

re: Pimp My Content Deployment Job

Stefan_Gossner — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:16:02 GMT

Hi Binay,

I haven't seen this specific issue. I would suggest to open a support case with Microsoft to get it analyzed.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Pimp My Content Deployment Job

james Crowe — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:18:14 GMT

Thank you. Very helpful to find out about the compression flag