In the last couple of weeks I have seen several cases where STSADM import operations failed with random exceptions. With other words: performing the same import into an empty site collection multiple times the import operation failed at different points during the import. Checking the ULS logs showed errors like the following: 10/20/2008 12:47:26.59 STSADM.EXE […]
Yesterday a colleague (Patrick Heyde) solved an interesting problem with MOSS 2007 and IIS 7 related to content deployment. Some background infos: Content Deployment in MOSS 2007 first exports all content to the file system as XML and binary files and afterwards packages these files into cab files which then get uploaded through http to the […]
As a follow up to my article series about the content deployment and migration API here are some tips on how you can “fine-tune” the out of the box content deployment jobs. This will include information about how adjust settings in Content Deployment Paths and Jobs and also about how to adjust content deployment global […]
A common problem we see with content deployment and with STSADM -o export is the error message below: [4/11/2008 9:25:01 AM]: FatalError: Failed to compare two elements in the array. at System.Collections.Generic.ArraySortHelper`1.QuickSort[TValue](T[] keys, TValue[] values, Int32 left, Int32 right, IComparer`1 comparer) at System.Collections.Generic.ArraySortHelper`1.QuickSort[TValue](T[] keys, TValue[] values, Int32 left, Int32 right, IComparer`1 comparer) at System.Collections.Generic.ArraySortHelper`1.QuickSort[TValue](T[] keys, […]
[Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 – Part 5 – Part 6 – Part 7] Requirements for a successful content deployment Be aware that this article cannot provide a complete list of all requirements. I will update it from time to time if required. Today I will list all the requirements […]
Another issue which I have seen a couple of times in the past when using STSADM -o export or content deployment is a failure during the export phase with the following error message: Failed to create package fileUnknown compression type in a cabinet folder In all cases I have seen this problem was caused by […]
I have seens this problem a couple of times in the past: sometimes when running incremental content deployment the deployment job fails with the following error message The changeToken refers to a time before the start of the current change log. To make a long story short: to resolve the problem you should do a full […]
[Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 – Part 5 – Part 6 – Part 7] Avoiding common problem This can be one of the most frequently updated chapters of this article series as “common problems” can change over time. In addition I can only talk about common problems I have seen so […]
[Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 – Part 5 – Part 6 – Part 7] Advanced content deployment scenarios Till now we have covered export and import of single list items or documents containers like folders, lists or webs complete site collection What we haven’t covered is how to use this method […]
[Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 – Part 5 – Part 6 – Part 7] Providing some real world samples for import After we managed to export content in part 2 lets now focus on the importing side. Import actually has two different ways to work: Import by preserving the object identity […]
[Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 – Part 5 – Part 6 – Part 7] Providing some real world samples for export To demonstrate how powerful the Content Deployment and Migration API is I will now provide some real world examples: Export a complete Site Collection Export a specific sub web Exporting other […]
[Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 – Part 5 – Part 6 – Part 7] Introduction Today I would like to start an article series on an interesting new feature in WSS 3.0: the Content Deployment and Migration API. A similar API has previously been provided in MCMS 2002 and was also […]
