RE: [OzMOSS] MOSS Content deployment Errors
Thanks David. Looks like a real gotcha. Will give it a go and see how I go. Cheers, Aaron From: SEARLE,David Sent: Wednesday, 7 May 2008 10:49 AM To: 'listserver@ozMOSS.com' Subject: RE: [OzMOSS] MOSS Content deployment Errors Hi Aaron, Going through the same pain here with Content Deplyment. I have found the series of articles written by Stefan Grossner really helpful, especially this one: http://blogs.technet.com/stefan_gossner/archive/2008/04/11/deep-dive-into-the-sharepoint-content-deployment-and-migration-api-part-6.aspx Note: number 3) about creating a real blank site collection instead of using the Blank Template, i use his approach and works well. Also point 5) about not activating custom features on the destination web application is a gotchya too. Good luck, Dave From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron Saikovski Sent: Tuesday, 6 May 2008 3:44 PM To: listserver@ozMOSS.com Subject: [OzMOSS] MOSS Content deployment Errors Dear All, I am having a fun time trying to get content deployment working between a staging and production server and was wondering if anyone else has found any gotchas or potential settings I have missed getting this working. I performed the following steps: 1. On the destination server farm, create an empty site collection based on the Blank Site template to receive the initial deployment job. 2. On the destination farm, on the Content Deployment Settings page in Office SharePoint Server 2007 Central Administration, configure the farm to accept incoming deployment jobs, assign a front-end server as the import server to manage incoming deployment jobs, and specify whether or not to require encryption on the connection between the source and destination farms. 3. On the source farm, on the Content Deployment Settings page, assign a front-end server as the export server to manage outgoing deployment jobs. 4. On the source farm, on the Manage Content Deployment Paths and Jobs page in Office SharePoint Server 2007 Central Administration, create one or more deployment paths. 5. On the source farm, on the Manage Content Deployment Paths and Jobs page, create one or more deployment jobs for each path. 6. Run the initial deployment job to initiate the content on the destination farm. 7. If the path does not deploy all security information, then on the destination farm, create the initial set of users, roles, and permissions on content and sites. From this article: http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/f/?en-us/library/edcdacca-8013-460e-95a0-d2b83b6cc7ef1033.mspx and also followed this one: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261732.aspx The content deploy job runs and the .cab files get created and sent up to the production server no worries. The error I keep getting is that the list ‘/contact’ exists and cannot be overwritten during import. This is weird, especially in light of the fact that I have created a blank site collection to do the initial deployment drop. I have even tried to do an export and import to get the server all setup with master pages etc and I get an even stranger error when trying to do a deploy. I have heard of problems with this technology but didn’t figure it would be this troublesome. I am using domain admin service accounts to perform the deploy so I don’t think this is a security issue. Do tools like Tzunami and Echo get around this? Any thoughts would be appreciated. Anything obvious I should be checking for? I have checked the event logs etc and they aren’t very helpful. Cheers, Aaron Aaron Saikovski Senior Solutions Specialist – Information Worker Groove MVP M: +61 (0) 410 480 971 P: 02 9448 7300 F: 02 9475 0417 A: Level 21, 8-20 Napier Street, North Sydney NSW 2060 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] W: www.sdm.com.au http://www.sdm.com.au/ strategic data management Consult ♦ Develop ♦ Integrate ♦ Deliver Microsoft Application Infrastructure Development Partner of the Year 2007 Business Performance Management l Business Consulting l Customer Relationship Management Enterprise Project Management l Information Worker l Systems Integration This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and are only for the use of the person to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient you have received this email in error and are requested to delete it immediately. Any opinion expressed in this e-mail may not necessarily be that of Strategic Data Management Pty Ltd. Please consider the environment before printing this email. ;3I'ڞ˱mkɲzˁrKˊ؞˱mrfnW Notice: The information contained in this email message and any attached files may be confidential information, and may also be the subject of legal
[OzMOSS] Custom Field Type - 255 char limit
Hi All, Have written a TreeView control as a custom field type (extends the BaseFieldType class), that then stores the node path for selected items as a ; seperated string in the list item (e.g. NodeName\SubNode\LeafNode; AnotherNodeName\AnotherSubNode\AnotherLeafNode). My problem is that the value that can be stored for the control seems to have a 255 character limit - which can be hit quite quickly if you have a tree that has a few levels. I guess I could change the control so that it stores node IDs rather then the node path, but I quite like the flexibility inherit in storing the node path. A far better solution would be to be able to extend the amount of characters I can store - but I have no idea how I would go about doing this. Any ideas?? Cheers, Nigel Witherdin Senior Support Analyst Eversheds Direct Dial: +44 (0) 84 549 754 17 Mobile: +44 (0) 7738 553256 www.eversheds.com http://www.eversheds.com/ ** This email is sent for and on behalf of Eversheds LLP ** *** From 12 May 2008, our new London headquarters will be One Wood Street, London EC2V 7WS. For more information please visit our website (www.eversheds.com/onewoodstreet). *** This email is sent for and on behalf of Eversheds LLP which is a limited liability partnership, registered in England and Wales, registered number OC304065, registered office Senator House, 85 Queen Victoria Street, London EC4V 4JL. Registered VAT number GB820704559. A list of the members' names and their professional qualifications is available for inspection at the above office. Regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (see www.sra.org.uk). Confidentiality: This email and its attachments are intended for the above named only and may be confidential. If they have come to you in error you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please reply to this email and highlight the error. * [ www.eversheds.com ] * --- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com
Re: [OzMOSS] Multiple site collection navigation
Thanks Ishai,
This is sort of what i am working on now, Havnt really considered caching or
security yet but just want to get it working before I add that in. I just
have a couple of questions, Not sure if this is right but could you please
advice if i am on the right track or not and secondly, following this method
how do you make sure that the current site is highlighted in the navigation
bar?
Thanks for your help.
public class CustomSpNavigation :
Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Navigation.PortalSiteMapProvider
{
public override SiteMapNodeCollection GetChildNodes(System.Web.SiteMapNodenode)
{
PortalSiteMapNode pNode = node as PortalSiteMapNode;
if (pNode != null)
{
if (pNode.Type == NodeTypes.Area)
{
using (SiteMapNodeCollection nodeColl = new SiteMapNodeCollection())
{
SPWebApplication web = SPContext.Current.Site.WebApplication;
foreach (SPSite site in web.Sites)
{
SPWeb spWeb = (SPWeb)site.OpenWeb();
nodeColl.Add(new SiteMapNode(this, key, spWeb.Url + /default.aspx,
spWeb.Title, spWeb.Description));
}
return nodeColl;
}
}
else
{
return base.GetChildNodes(pNode);
}
}
else
{
return new SiteMapNodeCollection();
}
}
}
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Ishai Sagi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I was suggesting that you develop a custom SiteMapProvider, most probably
by inheriting from SPSiteMapProvider or PortalSiteMapProvider
Look at Implementing Site Map Providers in
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb897739.aspx which has a nice
code sample how to override PortalSiteMapProvider and add items to it –
your custom code can then add site collections to it.
It can be a bit complex at first, but I managed to do what you are after
in a few hours. The main trick here is security and caching (make sure that
users only see the menu items they are allowed to see, and cache the data on
a user level cache).
*From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf
Of *Kanwartej Singh Basrai
*Sent:* Wednesday, 7 May 2008 09:40 AM
*To:* listserver@ozmoss.com
*Subject:* Re: [OzMOSS] Multiple site collection navigation
Ishai, Thanks for the response. Just to clarify, When you say navigation
providers, do you mean writing a custom sitemap file and hooking that up in
the web.config file as per this example
http://blah.winsmarts.com/2008-1-Implementing_Consistent_Navigation_across_Site_Collections.aspx
Or do you mean, writing a feature that implements SpNavigationProvider and
override methods like getchildnodesetc. Not sure pro's and cons about
either approach but i could only find these 2 ways of achieving this.
kind regards
Tej
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Ishai Sagi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Tej,
No need to write your own navigation control – you need to write your own
navigation provider and connect it to the built-in control.
There are many samples for navigation providers on the web – and it is
pretty easy to modify them to do what you want. I was thinking of writing
about this, but never got the time.
*From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf
Of *Kanwartej Singh Basrai
*Sent:* Tuesday, 6 May 2008 16:01 PM
*To:* listserver@ozmoss.com
*Subject:* [OzMOSS] Multiple site collection navigation
Hi Guys,
We have a web application which has multiple site collections. The client
wants a navigation which shows consistent navigation on all the site
collections. So instead of having Home and sub sites in the navigation they
want to display all the site collections. Is there an easy way to do this in
moss or do you have to write your own navigation control?
Would really appreciate any help i can get.
Thanks in advance
Tej
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[OzMOSS] [OT] SharePoint in Action Virtual Conference
All, In case anyone is interested in this online conference I thought I'd post the URL. For those of us in Canberra, the conference starts at 12:30AM Wednesday 14th May and ends at 8am. I'll be up late that night with plenty of coffee and pizza :-) A quick brief of the conference is: During the day's presentations by technical experts Dan Holme, Andrew Connell, and Melissa Fraser, you'll learn * How SharePoint search works, why enterprise search is different than Internet search, and some of the features that you'll want to turn on in order to make search as relevant as possible * How to build ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts for use in the latest release of SharePoint * How you can integrate Office applications and SharePoint to maximize productivity http://events.unisfair.com/index.jsp?eid=268seid=25code=050708 Cheers, David Prior Senior Consultant KAZ ACT | Professional Services | KAZ Group Pty Ltd 19 - 25 Moore Street | Turner ACT 2612 (02) 6219 0880 | 0411 449 496 [EMAIL PROTECTED] BLOCKED::mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.kaz-group.com - This communication may contain confidential information and/or copyright material of KAZ Group Pty Ltd ABN 25 002 124 405 and its related bodies corporate. It may also be the subject of legal professional privilege. If you are not an intended recipient, you must not keep, forward, copy, use, save or rely on this communication and any such action is unauthorised and prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please reply to this e-mail to notify the sender of its incorrect delivery, and then delete both it and your reply. --- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com
