Possible to merge 3 top-level sites into 1?

A user has 3 top-level sites that they'd like to consolidate into one site.
Are there any utilities to copy the different web parts and migrate them to
the new site? The only idea I have is to create templates and include the
content of the ones that I can (unfortunately, you can't include the content
in an Issues list). Other ideas?

Todd
Fri Jun 09 09:38:04 CDT 2006

If the sites are small enough you can use smigrate to back the subsites up
and restore them to the master site collection. Basically a cut and paste
type operation.

tk
"JM" <JM@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>A user has 3 top-level sites that they'd like to consolidate into one site.
> Are there any utilities to copy the different web parts and migrate them
> to
> the new site? The only idea I have is to create templates and include the
> content of the ones that I can (unfortunately, you can't include the
> content
> in an Issues list). Other ideas?
>

JM
Fri Jun 09 10:30:01 CDT 2006

These are all top-level sites, so would it still work? If so, how? I'm not
sure I get how I'd use the smigrate tool to merge them into 1 site. Thanks,
JM

"Todd Klindt" wrote:

> If the sites are small enough you can use smigrate to back the subsites up
> and restore them to the master site collection. Basically a cut and paste
> type operation.
>
> tk
> "JM" <JM@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:09279937-98AC-4984-86A6-6B8D9CFCC2D8@microsoft.com...
> >A user has 3 top-level sites that they'd like to consolidate into one site.
> > Are there any utilities to copy the different web parts and migrate them
> > to
> > the new site? The only idea I have is to create templates and include the
> > content of the ones that I can (unfortunately, you can't include the
> > content
> > in an Issues list). Other ideas?
> >
>
>
>

Todd
Fri Jun 09 15:44:23 CDT 2006

Well, before we go any further we need to agree on some terms. :)

Site Collection: A collection of sites.
Top Level Site: The first site in a site collection. It is in the root of
the Site Collection and its URL is the same as the location of the Site
Collection.

You can back a top level site up and restore it as a subsite, if you do it
with smigrate. A top level site is just a regular site, but at the root of
the site collection. Keeping that in mind, you should be able to collapse
three site collections into one.

tk
"JM" <JM@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> These are all top-level sites, so would it still work? If so, how? I'm
> not
> sure I get how I'd use the smigrate tool to merge them into 1 site.
> Thanks,
> JM
>
> "Todd Klindt" wrote:
>
>> If the sites are small enough you can use smigrate to back the subsites
>> up
>> and restore them to the master site collection. Basically a cut and
>> paste
>> type operation.
>>
>> tk
>> "JM" <JM@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:09279937-98AC-4984-86A6-6B8D9CFCC2D8@microsoft.com...
>> >A user has 3 top-level sites that they'd like to consolidate into one
>> >site.
>> > Are there any utilities to copy the different web parts and migrate
>> > them
>> > to
>> > the new site? The only idea I have is to create templates and include
>> > the
>> > content of the ones that I can (unfortunately, you can't include the
>> > content
>> > in an Issues list). Other ideas?
>> >
>>
>>
>>

Engelbert
Sat Jun 10 06:18:23 CDT 2006

I hope it will help to add that (imo) one good way to do this would be to
have a top-level site which is anonymous access and whose main (and perhaps
only) role is to serve as an entry point to the three sub-sites (all of
which earlier were top-level sites). These would be defined as not
inheriting the rights of the parent (and would each be generated by smigrate
after creating the sub-site but not specifying the Site Template to be
used).

Of course if all three have the same people with the same access rights that
top-level site could be non-anonymous with those access rights (and then
they *would* inherit ..); OR you could have a site below the anonymous
top-level site (and one level above the three) that is non-anonymous with
those access rights (this would be used if you wanted to add other sub-sites
with different access rights and wanted a "public" access site to them all
perhaps to get people interested).

Engelbert

"Todd Klindt" <usenet@klindt.org> wrote in message
news:uuMw%23VAjGHA.1276@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Well, before we go any further we need to agree on some terms. :)
>
> Site Collection: A collection of sites.
> Top Level Site: The first site in a site collection. It is in the root of
> the Site Collection and its URL is the same as the location of the Site
> Collection.
>
> You can back a top level site up and restore it as a subsite, if you do it
> with smigrate. A top level site is just a regular site, but at the root
> of the site collection. Keeping that in mind, you should be able to
> collapse three site collections into one.
>
> tk
> "JM" <JM@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:455EE21E-162E-491A-B230-C10F4E73A3DF@microsoft.com...
>> These are all top-level sites, so would it still work? If so, how? I'm
>> not
>> sure I get how I'd use the smigrate tool to merge them into 1 site.
>> Thanks,
>> JM
>>
>> "Todd Klindt" wrote:
>>
>>> If the sites are small enough you can use smigrate to back the subsites
>>> up
>>> and restore them to the master site collection. Basically a cut and
>>> paste
>>> type operation.
>>>
>>> tk
>>> "JM" <JM@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>> news:09279937-98AC-4984-86A6-6B8D9CFCC2D8@microsoft.com...
>>> >A user has 3 top-level sites that they'd like to consolidate into one
>>> >site.
>>> > Are there any utilities to copy the different web parts and migrate
>>> > them
>>> > to
>>> > the new site? The only idea I have is to create templates and include
>>> > the
>>> > content of the ones that I can (unfortunately, you can't include the
>>> > content
>>> > in an Issues list). Other ideas?
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>