Microsoft.SharePoint.Taxonomy Migration of Taxonomy

Hi



I have server1 with Microsoft.SharePoint.DLL version  14.0.5123.5000  in farm1 .

1. I took Content DB backup of Site collection SC1 on this server 1 along with Taxonomy DB backup on server 1 .


2. I restored these DB's on Server2 ( Microsoft.SharePoint.DLL version  14.0.4762.1000)  SQL DB .


3. Created a new Taxonomy Meta Service with  restored MetaService DB backup on Farm2.


4. Created a new web application and site collection with restored Content DB from Server1  on Farm2.


5. Manually run the Taxonomy Update Scheduler Timer Job.


6. When I create a new item/ edit an on Server 2, a new entry is created in TaxonomyHiddenList and a new entry under termStore "System".


7. Even though I have same term present in my custom Termstore in a termset !!!!

The ideal behavior should be , on server 2 , new item should be tagged to my custom term in predefined termset and termstore .



Please guide me what step I am missing.

Reply 1

Let's try a different approach. Instead of trying to create the service from a backup, we can export the data and import it into a new metadata service:

1. Delete the Managed Metadata service in Farm 2.


2. Create a new Managed Metadata service in Farm 2. Note the application pool account.


3. In farm 1, from an elevated SharePoint Management Console window, run the Export-SPMetadataWebServicePartitionData cmdlet. This will create export the managed metadata data into a cabinet file (.CAB):

Export-SPMetadataWebServicePartitionData -Identity "http://sharepointsite" -ServiceProxy "ManagedMetadata Service Proxy Name" -Path "C:\Temp\ManagedMetadata.cab"

4. opy the .CAB file from farm 1 to a folder on the farm 2 SQL Server. Share this folder and give Everyone Full Control sharing permission (we will clean this up later)


5. In farm 2 SQL Server Management Studio, give the Managed Metadata application pool account (from step 2) bulkadmin SQL Server role (Expand the server instance -> Expand Security -> Find the account -> Right click, Properties -> Server Roles Page -> Check bulkadmin -> Click OK)


6. In farm 2 SharePoint server, from an elevated SharePoint Management Console window, run the Import-SPMetadataWebServicePartitionData cmdlet to import the data:

Export-SPMetadataWebServicePartitionData -Identity "http://sharepointsitefarm2" -ServiceProxy "New Managed Metadata Service Proxy Name" -Path "\\SQLServerName\Share\ManagedMetadata.cab"

You'll need to update the URLs and names to reflect your environments.

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JASON WARREN

Reply 2

Hello Jason



Thanks for your great help. With the migration commands you shared also , I was getting the same problem.

The source of the problem in my case was :

After recreation / DB restoration /migration of Taxonomies , few of the properties in my User Profiles had lost the mappings, I had to manually remap them to get the things working.

Reply 3 

After everything I am facing below mentioned: ( To sum up I will rewrite all steps I did)\

1.        I have server1 with Microsoft.SharePoint.DLL version  14.0.5123.5000  in farm1 .On Farm 2 Microsoft.SharePoint.DLL version  is 14.0.4762.1000


2.        The Farm1 and Farm2 are exact replica ( created from same content DB) and Taxonomies also being same with same GUIDs of Term Store and sets and Terms.


3.        I created a new term under my custom term set on Farm1 . Used  Export-SPMetadataWebServicePartitionData  and  Import-SPMetadataWebServicePartitionData   (OverwriteExisting)  to migrate changes in Terms  to Farm 2


4.        Edited an existing content in Site Collection 1 to refer to the new term.


5.        Now I used Deployment API’s to take incremental export of site collection 1 .


6. The import process on Site Collection2 on farm 2 create two entries in TaxonomyHiddenList !! These two entries have same Title, IdForTermStore, IdForTerm, IdForTermSet etc . Only difference is the SPITEM ID .


7.        All the functionalities of my site work fine. But I am not sure why these two entries should be there in TaxonomyHiddenList !!!

After each step above I run the Taxonomy Update Scheduler Timer Job on Site collection 2 web application. Manual TaxonomySession.SyncHiddenList also did not help.



Seems to be one entry in TaxonomyHiddenList came from content migration of TaxonomyHiddenList itself and the second entry came as include dependency of list item edited which refer to this new  Term. Might be the case ?



As the import Log mention The import Process on Site Collection2 refer to TaxonomyHiddenList Twice :

[5/30/2012 11:08:46 AM] Start Time: 5/30/2012 11:08:46 AM.
[5/30/2012 11:08:46 AM] Progress: Initializing Import.
[5/30/2012 11:08:46 AM] Progress: Starting content import.
[5/30/2012 11:08:46 AM] Progress: De-Serializing Objects to Database.
[5/30/2012 11:08:46 AM] [Folder] [Person] Progress: Importing
[5/30/2012 11:08:46 AM] [Folder] [Person] Verbose: Source URL: _catalogs/users/Person
[5/30/2012 11:08:46 AM] [Folder] [Item] Progress: Importing
[5/30/2012 11:08:46 AM] [Folder] [Item] Verbose: Source URL: Lists/TaxonomyHiddenList/Item
[5/30/2012 11:08:46 AM] [Folder] [myLibrary] Progress: Importing
[5/30/2012 11:08:46 AM] [Folder] [myLibrary] Verbose: Source URL: myLibrary/Forms/myLibrary
[5/30/2012 11:08:46 AM] [File] [sitemap.xml] Progress: Importing
[5/30/2012 11:08:46 AM] [File] [sitemap.xml] Verbose: Source URL: sitemap.xml
[5/30/2012 11:08:46 AM] [File] [sitemap.xml] Verbose: Destination URL: /sitemap.xml
[5/30/2012 11:08:46 AM] [ListItem] [xyz.pdf] Progress: Importing
[5/30/2012 11:08:46 AM] [ListItem] [xyz.pdf] Verbose: List URL: /myLibrary
[5/30/2012 11:08:46 AM] [ListItem] [xyz.pdf] Verbose: Deleting...
[5/30/2012 11:08:47 AM] [ListItem] [53_.000] Progress: Importing
[5/30/2012 11:08:47 AM] [ListItem] [53_.000] Verbose: List URL: /Lists/TaxonomyHiddenList
[5/30/2012 11:08:47 AM] [ListItem] [272_.000] Progress: Importing
[5/30/2012 11:08:47 AM] [ListItem] [272_.000] Verbose: List URL: /_catalogs/users
[5/30/2012 11:08:47 AM] Verbose: Performing final fixups.
[5/30/2012 11:08:47 AM] Progress: Import completed.
[5/30/2012 11:08:47 AM] Finish Time: 5/30/2012 11:08:47 AM.
[5/30/2012 11:08:47 AM] Duration: 00:00:00
[5/30/2012 11:08:47 AM] Total Objects: 11
[5/30/2012 11:08:47 AM] Finished with 0 warnings.
[5/30/2012 11:08:47 AM] Finished with 0 errors.

My migration process export only the content which is published . If I give a tweak in the process it works:



1. Create an item which is not published using the new term on server 1 . This populates an entry in TaxonomyHiddenList. Let this Term in TaxonomyHiddenList migrate in next export import migration.



2. Now before next migration cycle , Publish the item which was refering to new term on server 1 . After next migration , the updated item goes to server 2 and there is no extra term in TaxonomyHiddenList onserver 2.

Reason: Probably import process on Server 2 is taken care by SharePoint as a Transaction. Now TaxonomyHiddenList Import and refering item import is under single transaction. So the item does not get reference to the newly created / imported taxonomy hidden list entry and hence trigger a new spitem creation in the taxonomyhidden list.

If we don't want to use powershell for Taxonomy migration and want to stick to db migration, there is a way out, restart SQL server just before db restore on target , so that there may be no connection Live to the managed db at the time of restore.

If we try to point the old service to a new DB instead(on the target,where new db is restored from the source meta db), some mappings may be lost for the termsets to the Columns in the list.

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