Dumping MOSS 2007 Variations - Part 1

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Dumping MOSS 2007 Variations - Part 2

Random Musings of Jeremy Jameson — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:45:05 GMT

In part 1 of this series, I talked about my current customer's decision to abandon the use of the variations

Dumping MOSS 2007 Variations - Part 2

Noticias externas — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:50:28 GMT

In part 1 of this series, I talked about my current customer's decision to abandon the use of the

Dumping MOSS 2007 Variations - Part 3

Random Musings of Jeremy Jameson — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:15:16 GMT

In part 1 and part 2 of this series, I talked about some major issues with the variations feature in

re: Dumping MOSS 2007 Variations - Part 1

stefan_gossner — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:51:08 GMT

Ok, finally managed to get logon credentials for msdn blogs working.

I have added some comments about the problems in this article series here:

http://blogs.technet.com/stefan_gossner/archive/2007/11/15/some-comments-on-common-variation-problems.aspx

Jeremy Jameson blogs about variations

Shared Points... — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:13:11 GMT

Jeremy Jameson has blogged about his adventures in variations. Allthough I don't agree with everything,

Jeremy Jameson blogs about variations

Noticias externas — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:57:38 GMT

Jeremy Jameson has blogged about his adventures in variations. Allthough I don't agree with everything

Deleting Variation Labels Does Not Delete Underlying Sites

Random Musings of Jeremy Jameson — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:14:14 GMT

I've received a number of responses to my series on the problems we encountered with Microsoft Office

Deleting Variation Labels Does Not Delete Underlying Sites

Noticias externas — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:11:32 GMT

I've received a number of responses to my series on the problems we encountered with Microsoft Office

re: Dumping MOSS 2007 Variations - Part 1

bdimitre — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:58:38 GMT

Any updates on this issue? I’m still getting this error even after the service pack installs we got from microsoft: The variation system failed to pair up pages...because their Content Types do not match.

How do i prevent this? What is the best way to fix this? In my search to find a solution to the problem i have found many blogs talking about it but no one seems to have a solution to it.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you.

re: Dumping MOSS 2007 Variations - Part 1

Jeremy Jameson — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:12:39 GMT

According to Stefan Goßner (a support engineer with Microsoft), SP1 includes a fix for the content type issue. See Stefan's earlier comment for a link to his blog post.

If you believe this is not the case, I recommend you contact Microsoft Support.

Keep in mind that if your service request is determined to be caused by a bug in a product, you will not be charged for the support incident.

re: Dumping MOSS 2007 Variations - Part 1

bgeoffro — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 01:56:12 GMT

Regarding changing the content type of default.aspx... Did you consider creating a new page and then assigning it as the new Welcome Page of the site via site settings (manually or programatically)? I might be missing something in the big picture, but this sounds like it would dodge the issue of changing content types for a page.

re: Dumping MOSS 2007 Variations - Part 1

Jeremy Jameson — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 20:13:43 GMT

No, we did not try that -- although I have no reason to believe that it wouldn't work. Same with the suggestion to use feature stapling with the pre-SP1 build to ensure the content type is enabled. There were definitely workarounds for some of the issues -- except, of course, for the performance issues described in part 2, since adding an index is not supported until officially blessed by Microsoft Support.

Keep in mind that this was just one of the reasons the customer decided not to use variations.