Content Deployment – Step By Step Tutorial

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Tyler Butler [MSFT] — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 07:23:23 GMT

Great post, Jackie. There is also some documentation of this process (albeit without the pretty pictures) over on Technet as well.

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/f/?en-us/library/edcdacca-8013-460e-95a0-d2b83b6cc7ef1033.mspx

There's some topological overview as well:

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/f/?en-us/library/1d6d6040-6cbb-4685-a40e-1e9086d426831033.mspx

Cheers,

Tyler

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JT — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:57:08 GMT

Having trouble deploying content. I'm using a single server, trying to make a job work with a path between two site collections in the same web application and getting only errors saying Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED)) at...

re: Content Deployment – Step By Step Tutorial

Nelson Santos — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 20:20:25 GMT

Hi!

I'm having the same problem. I'm trying to shared content between two site collections on the same machine( Intranet and Internet) but the job gives me timeout and nothing if passed :(

Any ideias?

Thanks in advance!

Nelson Santos

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Deepak Aggarwal — Thu, 03 May 2007 07:52:54 GMT

Hi,

While creating paths, we are not able to see the web application which is in a seprate server farm. it is should web application which are only in same server farm? what should we do to deploy our content from staging to production enviorment?

This will be a great help.

Thanks

Deepak Aggarwal

re: Content Deployment – Step By Step Tutorial

Eric Ramseur — Thu, 03 May 2007 23:11:12 GMT

Hey Jackie,

How fast do you normally see the state go from preparing to running and have you seen the DST issue happen after or before the preparing? Im on my second try to just move our top level site which is like 2 pages at most and SP is just reporting preparing.

Regards,

Eric Ramseur

Software Engineer, Gridpoint Inc.,

Excellent Reference on MOSS Content Deployment

Mauro Cardarelli — Thu, 24 May 2007 12:59:53 GMT

One of the big pain points with SPS 2003 was the fact that once you went to production all subsequent

re: Content Deployment – Step By Step Tutorial

basil — Sat, 26 May 2007 11:37:31 GMT

its very important article

thank you very mauch

Content Deployment - Step By Step Tutorial

Sezai's Blog about Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 — Sun, 27 May 2007 07:41:44 GMT

I like step by step guides with screenshots Content Deployment - Step By Step Tutorial http://blogs.msdn.com/jackiebo/archive/2007/02/26/content-deployment-step-by-step-tutorial.aspx

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Brad Helicher — Mon, 28 May 2007 18:36:26 GMT

A good third-party solution for deploying/replication content and apps is R-1 by Repliweb (www.repliweb.com). This solution automates the process of deployment and ties in workflow tools as well.

re: Content Deployment – Step By Step Tutorial

Tony Sloggett — Wed, 30 May 2007 15:25:43 GMT

Your problem is most likely because the account that is running the timer job for the source or destination content deployment job does not have permission to the temporary folder that the job deploys to. Check you temporary folder permissions, and also stop the ows timer service and delete any temporary folders and files that have been left there.

Also if you are running an interactive virus scanner make sure that you turn it off for the temporary folder.

If none of that works, delete the job and path and re-create again, it's the only way to re-verify the permissions on the destination. Good luck.

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anchorPoint — Wed, 30 May 2007 21:10:35 GMT

This looks nice, but what about features, solutions packages and such? Are they also deployed or do you have to do that bit yourself?

Does this content deployment-service mean that we can now expect to see the same Unique IDs on Webs, Lists, ListItems, etc. on both the stage server and the production server?

re: Content Deployment – Step By Step Tutorial

Guru — Wed, 30 May 2007 22:06:38 GMT

Hi JT, the problem you are facing is that you have both the site collection in the same Web App. create the destination site collection using a new web app(which will create a new content DB) and try.

Also, please read this article carefully. Author, clearly mentions that Source and Destination site collections need to be from two different Web Application(meaning two different content databases).

Hope that helps!

re: Content Deployment – Step By Step Tutorial

ragubala — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 17:51:14 GMT

Hi,

I am trying to share some content between an intranet site and an internet website,which are in the same server but are different site collections and different web applications.Any ideas how I can do the shareing?

Thanks,

MRB.

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re: Content Deployment – Step By Step Tutorial

wew — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:56:53 GMT

hello,

i just want to asking 1 question...what is the different between microsoft office project server 2007 and micrsoft office share point 2007?

Content Deployment - Step By Step Tutorial

sezai's blog — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:06:19 GMT

I like step by step guides with screenshots Content Deployment - Step By Step Tutorial http://blogs.msdn

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Brandon C — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:39:31 GMT

When I click Connect I get error html from the destination server with the text "File not found" in it.

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Brian Carnes — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:35:04 GMT

It is really not user friendly to have the Comment Notification link visible when I'm typing the post. I clicked the link before submitting and lost my post. The short version...

Thank you for the screen shots. Not just "pretty", but save me minutes of translating text to UI; quickly put me in context; gave me confidence I understood post. Wish more bloggers took the time.

Came across your post while searching for resolution to Status Preparing message, which seems frozen.

re: Content Deployment – Step By Step Tutorial

Jeff — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 20:53:08 GMT

FYI, Also would like to note. That do not name the destination site the exact same as the source site or the path creation will fail. "Source and destination Site collection cannot be the same".

re: Content Deployment – Step By Step Tutorial

Jason — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 08:30:44 GMT

I would like to know if there is a way to generate a report or log of content changes using the stsadm command or another utility once a content deployment job runs...

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Pankaj — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:04:08 GMT

When ever i try to run the job it gives me this error---

The specified name is already in use. A list, survey, discussion board, or document library cannot have the same name as another list, survey, discussion board, or document library in this Web site. Use your browser's Back button, and type a new name. at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest.CreateListOnImport(String bstrUrl, Guid& pguidListId, String bstrTitle, String bstrDescription, Int32 lTemplateID, String bstrFeatureId, Guid guidRootFolderId, Int64 llFlags, Int32 iVersion, Int32 iAuthor, String bstrFields, String bstrContentTypes, String bstrImageUrl, String bstrEventSinkAssembly, String bstrEventSinkClass, String bstrEventSinkData, Guid guidDocTemplateId, String bstrViews, String bstrForms, Boolean bCompressedSchema) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.ListSerializer.CreateList(SPWeb parentWeb, Dictionary`2 listMetaData, Boolean usingPublicSchema) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.ListSerializer.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()

Can u plz help to resolve this issue

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re: Content Deployment – Step By Step Tutorial

Jeff — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:07:42 GMT

I was having the problem of the deployment job getting stuck on 'Preparing'. It was not the Timer service. Was not the account. It turns out that you need to make sure that both servers have the same settings as far as SSL are concerned. If one is requireing it and the other is not it will just sit and spin. No log or error will be generated till it times out then you will be left wondering what happened. So make sure that both exporting server and importing server are on the same SSL Setting.

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Content deployment is an excellent way to publish SharePoint content between farms. A few things to keep

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JY — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:07:21 GMT

What about stage and production web application have different web config file and we don't want the stage one overwrite the production one?

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Andy — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:31:58 GMT

I can't see the content deployment links on Central Admin Operations tab. Does anyone know why these would not appear? Data Configuration is the last section on the right hand column of links.

Thanks

Andy

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Barry D Noble — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 23:38:07 GMT

I don't see any graphics between the topics. They only show up as boxes with x's in them. Is there a way to see them?

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fadinoja — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:03:03 GMT

I have the same issue. the images don't exist anymore....

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fadinoja — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:07:40 GMT

the site http://jackiebo.officeisp.net that references all the images is down.....

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John — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:39:06 GMT

Hi Jacky, great post! Can you check you images used in this blog entry? I also can't see them.

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Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:27:29 GMT

Content Deployment Jobs its a new feature that comes with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, and

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Noticias externas — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 11:18:59 GMT

Two great blog entries describing MOSS Content Deployment and how to configure it: http://blogs.msdn

re: Content Deployment – Step By Step Tutorial

Denny — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:19:08 GMT

While trying to create a new path, I am getting the error : Client found response content type of 'text/html; charset=utf-8', but expected 'text/xml'.

The request failed with the error message:

Can somebody help please?

re: Content Deployment – Step By Step Tutorial

Fer — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:11:28 GMT

For images, use the Way Back Machine:

http://web.archive.org/web/20070716191414/http://blogs.msdn.com/jackiebo/archive/2007/02/26/content-deployment-step-by-step-tutorial.aspx

re: Content Deployment – Step By Step Tutorial

Sodhi — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:31:26 GMT

I am getting same error message:

While trying to create a new path, I am getting the error : Client found response content type of 'text/html; charset=utf-8', but expected 'text/xml'.

The request failed with the error message:

Can somebody help please?

re: Content Deployment – Step By Step Tutorial

Faraz — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 05:06:47 GMT

For the

" Client found response content type of 'text/html; charset=utf-8', but expected 'text/xml'" error make sure that you are entering the port of the central administration Web application along with the host name in the textbox. I got that error because I didn;t append the port to the url and the server was actually trying to connect to my content web application at that point instead of central admin, which prompted the error.

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Portale Korporacyjne — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:14:08 GMT

Thanks for a great article about content deployment!

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Martin Mc — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:54:20 GMT

Great posting, much clearer than the MOSS adminitrator's companion!

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iyad — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:20:15 GMT

where are the photos ????????????????????????

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Nuz — Sat, 03 May 2008 16:46:40 GMT

The images are not showing. Please make available

Thanks

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ak — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:11:01 GMT

this would be great if i could see the photos!

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Chali — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:46:27 GMT

hi Jackie,

Please check your picture's url. All of them are invalid linkage now......

Thanks for the great article!

chali

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mikel — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:20:12 GMT

Any chance of getting the pictures fixed? I'd really like to see how this is done. Thanks!

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calig — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:04:30 GMT

great post, can we see the images? Thanks!

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herlina — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:09:28 GMT

The images are not showing. Can you please fix?

thanks

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Sanjay — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:49:27 GMT

pls fix your God Damn pictures

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Pat — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:56:00 GMT

Pls fix your images or delete this blog

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cyberjp — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:35:45 GMT

Can you update your Web page so that we can see images ?

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Denny — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:11:15 GMT

Use the link tat FER posted to see the images

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Sandip Nirmal — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:31:23 GMT

It's great artical for site collection migration!!! Thanks for that!

But I want particular contents of site to be migrated. For eaxample migrating Lists, Documents etc. So how to do that?

Thanks in advance.....

How to Publish SharePoint Content from an Authoring Farm inside Corporate Network to a Production Farm in DMZ

Hanz Blog — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:24:38 GMT

Farm Topology This article assumes you have two server farms: one internal farm in your corporate intranet

re: Content Deployment – Step By Step Tutorial

Praveen Modi — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 01:16:49 GMT

Excellent article Jack. However the screen shot are not appearing for me. Are the images reference wrong path?

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Dnyaneshwari — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 13:56:41 GMT

Hello,

I have installed Sharepoint VHD, and did try out the above steps but got stuck when the gave source web application path and gave http://litwaredemo:port number/foldername as URL for destination Central Administration server.

i get error saying "you have specified a URL that begins with http://. Communication to this URL will not be secure and can not be intercepted by malicous users."

so i have https://litwaredemo:port number/foldername

and clciked on Connect button.

It says Either the URL for the destination web application is not valid, or you do not have permissions to the central administration site on the destination server farm.

Error Details: The remote upload web requested failed.

I want to know the reason why this happend.

Waiting for your support

Regards,

Dnyaneshwari

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Mike — Mon, 04 May 2009 05:11:35 GMT

@Denny,

We got this error during content deployment as well:

Content deployment job 'MyContentDeployment' failed.The exception thrown was 'System.InvalidOperationException' : 'Client found response content type of 'text/html', but expected 'text/xml'. The request failed with the error message [html ... ] There is a problem with the resource you are looking for, and it cannot be displayed. [ ... /html]

It was occurring at the end of the export task. Turned out the Destination Central Administration Web App was broken. That's where this error is coming from - the end of the export task is the first time the Source farm tries to talk to the Destination farm.

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Dexter — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:41:07 GMT

Hi Dnyaneshwari,

I think I know what issue you are seeing is. Basically, you would have to go back to the Content Deployment Settings page (_admin/Deployment.aspx) and make sure you select the option "Encryption not required" on one of the radio buttons there. By default, it is set to require encryption (https). Once you select "Encryption not required", then you should be able to create a Path and just use "http://centraladminURLofDestination" and not "https://...".

Hope this helps.

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Richi — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:19:23 GMT

Hi,

I am unable to see the images on this tutorial :( Is there something wrong with my browser?!

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Rock — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:06:37 GMT

Hi All,

Check this link for viewing images also.

http://web.archive.org/web/20070716191414/http://blogs.msdn.com/jackiebo/archive/2007/02/26/content-deployment-step-by-step-tutorial.aspx

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reza — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:10:44 GMT

I cannot see the pictures, please refresh them!

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Sriwantha Sri Aravinda — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:44:07 GMT

buddy this is not working, although I get a connection test passed during the test run, the job fails during the actual full run. I am deploying to a site collection

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Evgeny — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:58:26 GMT

Thanks a lot.

This works fine for me in my siple case.

Best regards,

Evgeny

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Evgeny — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:58:36 GMT

Thanks a lot.

This works fine for me in my simple case.

Best regards,

Evgeny

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Venky Krishnan — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:53:13 GMT

I have a customer that is looking to be able to track changes between what is in stage and what is in production. Is there a web part that allows you to track changes to the content in a visual way with aids like Word, before it is approved to be moved to production.

Is there a way to do this ?

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Mpellos — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:14:24 GMT

@Tony Sloggett : Had the same problem with access denied errors when trying to publish content from one site collection to another one in the same server. Changing the user of the Timer service of SharePoint fixed the problem.

You saved my life man, thanx!

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ashok — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:03:51 GMT

The post helped a lot but it would be better if the images were visible.

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Shar SAP — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:59:55 GMT

To deploy site from development to production server I have created deployment path. That's created successfully. But when I run the job to actually deploy the content it shown me

Content deployment job 'Quick Deploy job for path 'External Server Deployment'' failed.The remote upload Web request failed.

I have checked that no firewall restrictions are blocking me. Request goes to the remote server and also coming back with finish packet.

So Please help me out.

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subbu — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:32:00 GMT

HI,

We can do backup and restore also ryt?

By creating a content database in production server ,so that there will be no conflicts of GUID...

Coz i had done like this only to get the sitecollection from stagging to production.