For the past few weeks, I have been in parental leave (we just had our first baby girl) and unable to write much.  However, it seems that there was some issues with Content Deployment at work.   Actually, the installation of SP1 and Blackout had been scheduled for a while but it didn't resolve...

Note: This post was made for SharePoint 2007 pre-Infrastructure Update -- while I did use it after the IU, I did not try it on SP2010. I ran into some more Content Deployment issues lately and I was going through the manifest (see http://blogs.msdn.com/maximeb/archive/2008/02/19/debugging-content...

Summary As you have noticed, I've changed my latest SharePoint focus to look at Site Definitions (and obviously Features but I played with them a lot prior to this). The reason for this is that I was looking at the "best" way to deploy artifacts for SharePoint WCM portals. While I had a very good working...

(Last updated June 17th with the Object Reference Not Set to an Instance)   SharePoint's Content Deployment feature is a very complex functionality that, unfortunately, does not work all the time.  I've had scenarios where it ran very smoothly and I've had other scenarios (albeit similar in...

As you probably have read, I ran into a couple issues lately with Content Deployment ( Slow with SP1? , major/minor versions , AAM on Central Administration , specified file already in used , links not fixed at destination , TCP connection closed , the requirement to create a publishing site + delete...

I have been testing WSS/MOSS Service Pack 1 on a large-scale WCM portal for the past couple weeks and I ran into some issues with Content Deployment. First of all, I do not want to say there's necessarily a widespread bug with Content Deployment and SP1 . Alright, you are warned :) My goal here is that...

Just a quick heads-up when you want to limit versions in a Web Content Management scenario and you have Content Deployment set up. First of all, let me explain why you would like to do this: Basically, if you happen to execute routinely a Full Content Deployment, a new version of every document (pages...

A few months ago, I had to debug an issue where Content Deployment was not functioning correctly. As soon as the Import process was starting, we were either experimenting an HTTP 400 error (Bad Request) or a "...this file type is blocked..." error. We couldn't figure out what was going on as everything...

It took me a while to come up with everything I needed for this post as I want to make it as accurate as possible with the experience I had on the field. The goal of this post is to provide information on the different ways to work as a team for a WCM web site with MOSS 2007. I believe that MOSS is large...

I often get the question as to why we have this error when using an incremental Content Deployment: The specified file is already in used . Simply, that message appears if the authors have created a file, deleted it, and recreated another file with the same name. All that before a single incremental...

I ran into this last week when making a spot check on the "content deployment destination", the links and images that were supplied by authors in the Publishing Html fields were still pointing at the "source". It turns out that Content Deployment doesn't work correctly when using features. Here's a quick...

We were having issues with slow Content Deployment for the transporting phase and it was sometimes failing with this error: Publishing: Content deployment job failed. Error: 'System.Net.WebException: The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a receive. ---> System.IO.IOException...

I ran into an issue with BlobCache lately where it was sending incorrect Http headers. Basically, all files were sending 2 http headers: Exires : (15 days behind) cache-control: private, max-age=0 Yes, "exires", not "expires", so not only we have a bug but also a typo :) Anyway, this was ensuring that...

I came across this error yesterday while testing a Content Deployment for a customer and had this error "The URL "Style Library/en-US" is invalid ..." with the stack trace mentioning that it was updating a File or Folder. The kind of message where you say "yeah I know, I'm deploying this so you should...

Here's a listing of custom STSADM extensions myself and my coworkers have created. Feel free to ask questions regarding the namespaces for these. I'd like to thank those who contributed to this : Stéphane Perron, Louis Fournier, and Vincent Trépanier at Orckestra , an outstanding partner for SharePoint...