Frontpage 2003 backup/restore - Please Help

Hi,

I used Frontpage 2003 to backup a sub-site from Server A and restore it to
Server B as a new top level site with a new content DB.

The backup and restore works perfectly except for the site membership. All
memberships are gone. Only the site owner is shown under the Manage Users
page.

Doesn't Frontpage 2003 also backup/restore the membership information?

Thanks,
Alex

Patrick
Wed Mar 29 09:57:53 CST 2006

Alex,
FrontPage does not retain membership or owner information.

Sharepoint Utility Suite has a tool WSSUserUtil that can map permissions
from the old site and apply unique permissions to the new site and add those
users to the same site groups in the new site.

STSADM does retain permission and ownership information but does not work on
subsites, only site collections.
Hope this helps,
Patrick

Engelbert
Wed Mar 29 10:06:49 CST 2006

No it doesn't. There is no way round this. If you use smigrate (which FP
does) to transfer you lose site membership.

Engelbert

"Alex" <Alex@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:43EF2340-36B3-4748-883C-62BC96D1F768@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> I used Frontpage 2003 to backup a sub-site from Server A and restore it to
> Server B as a new top level site with a new content DB.
>
> The backup and restore works perfectly except for the site membership.
> All
> memberships are gone. Only the site owner is shown under the Manage Users
> page.
>
> Doesn't Frontpage 2003 also backup/restore the membership information?
>
> Thanks,
> Alex

Engelbert
Wed Mar 29 22:58:47 CST 2006

Sorry, Patrick.

Typical overlap situation - your message wasn't showing when I started
writing mine.

Engelbert

"Patrick Feltz" <usenet@unruly1.com> wrote in message
news:%23ktOOm0UGHA.736@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Alex,
> FrontPage does not retain membership or owner information.
>
> Sharepoint Utility Suite has a tool WSSUserUtil that can map permissions
> from the old site and apply unique permissions to the new site and add
> those users to the same site groups in the new site.
>
> STSADM does retain permission and ownership information but does not work
> on subsites, only site collections.
> Hope this helps,
> Patrick
>