To Move a Site from One Server (Development Server) to Another Server (Production Server)

Hi,

Scenario: To Move a Site from One Server (Dev Server) to Another Server
(Production Server). I want to restore all the information along with
the security settings and user details.

The Things I have tried:

STSADM: I have tried using STSADM. I am able to move the site from one
portal to another portal within the server. But when I try to move the
site from dev server to prod server I am getting the following error.

"Exception from HRESULT: 0x80040E14"

SMigrate: I am able to move the site from one server to another server
but the security setting, user information and a few documents are
lost.

Can anyone tell me if I can use STSADM for restoring a site across
servers???....If yes, How?

(In the Admin Guide microsoft gave..."STSADM is not intended for moving
a site to a new server" .....But in a few forums they said it is
possible to move a sitre from one server to another.)

Is there any other way to restore a site across servers?

Thanks in advance

Shash.

adamsharepointsecuritycom
Thu Jul 06 07:46:02 CDT 2006

Unfortunatly, the support for migrating users directly from backup is not
feasible within 2003, however this feature is built into the import/export
features of MOSS.

For user migration, consider using the SharePoint User Utilities, which
allow you exposure to MigrateUser() APIs in order to move users correctly. I
have included a link to the tools below:

http://www.indieopolis.net/SharePoint/Examples/SPUserUtil.zip

Another method that you could explore is to package your site into a .stp
file using the "save site as template" feature in the WSS admin menu and then
ensuring that you have checked the box which asks you if you want to package
all the content of the site as well. Then, if deploying the .stp off the
portal root, use the stsadm command "addtemplate", or if you deploying under
a site collection, simply add it to the site template gallery.

Adam Buenz
http://www.sharepointsecurity.com
MVP -- Windows SharePoint Services


"Shash" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Scenario: To Move a Site from One Server (Dev Server) to Another Server
> (Production Server). I want to restore all the information along with
> the security settings and user details.
>
> The Things I have tried:
>
> STSADM: I have tried using STSADM. I am able to move the site from one
> portal to another portal within the server. But when I try to move the
> site from dev server to prod server I am getting the following error.
>
> "Exception from HRESULT: 0x80040E14"
>
> SMigrate: I am able to move the site from one server to another server
> but the security setting, user information and a few documents are
> lost.
>
> Can anyone tell me if I can use STSADM for restoring a site across
> servers???....If yes, How?
>
> (In the Admin Guide microsoft gave..."STSADM is not intended for moving
> a site to a new server" .....But in a few forums they said it is
> possible to move a sitre from one server to another.)
>
> Is there any other way to restore a site across servers?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Shash.
>
>

Todd
Thu Jul 06 09:37:15 CDT 2006

You mention the word "portal" in your question. This group is mainly
populated by folks that use WSS, not SPS, so we don't really have much to
offer when it comes to dealing with portals. I can tell you that on the WSS
side I have used STSADM to move sites from test to production and vice versa
more times than I can count. As long as both servers are at the same level
it seems to go pretty well. If you are using SPS I *think* there's a
another utility, SPSBACKUP that might work better for moving portals around.

tk
"Shash" <shishirreddy@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1152175855.574527.77020@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
> Hi,
>
> Scenario: To Move a Site from One Server (Dev Server) to Another Server
> (Production Server). I want to restore all the information along with
> the security settings and user details.
>
> The Things I have tried:
>
> STSADM: I have tried using STSADM. I am able to move the site from one
> portal to another portal within the server. But when I try to move the
> site from dev server to prod server I am getting the following error.
>
> "Exception from HRESULT: 0x80040E14"
>
> SMigrate: I am able to move the site from one server to another server
> but the security setting, user information and a few documents are
> lost.
>
> Can anyone tell me if I can use STSADM for restoring a site across
> servers???....If yes, How?
>
> (In the Admin Guide microsoft gave..."STSADM is not intended for moving
> a site to a new server" .....But in a few forums they said it is
> possible to move a sitre from one server to another.)
>
> Is there any other way to restore a site across servers?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Shash.
>