We have a staging source and target production. For 1st migration on blank site collection :
1. Even if we migrate content to a blank site collections we get many warnings like :
a.
[WebFeature] [Publishing] Warning: Provisioning did not succeed. Details: Failed to create the 'Images' library. OriginalException: The feature failed to activate because a list at 'PublishingImages' already exists in this site. Delete or rename the list and try activating the feature again.
b.
Warning: Provisioning did not succeed. Details: Failed to create the 'Images' library. OriginalException: The feature failed to activate because a list at 'PublishingImages' already exists in this site. Delete or rename the list and try activating the feature again.
c.
Warning: User or group 19 cannot be resolved.
Can we use a backup of staging as target instead of blank . What else than initial migration failure should I aspect as drawback in this ?
2.
Content deployment deploys the most recent major and minor versions of a content item. For example, if version 2.7 of a Web page is being deployed, the most recent major version (2.0) of the page, and the most recent minor version (2.7), will be deployed to the destination site.
Is it possible to limit the migration to last major version only ?
- We have started with blank site collection using powershell. Still getting the error in point one.
- I refer to http://centralAdmin/_admin/Deployment.aspx in this problem statements above.
Reply 1 By http://social.technet.microsoft.com/profile/jason%20warren/?ws=usercard-mini
Microsoft's Stefan Goßner has a great post about content deployment that I recommend you review.
In the section about the requirements for a successfuly content deployment, he recommends using an empty site collection for the destination and not a site collection with the Blank Site template (STS#1):
3) Use an empty site collection as the destination of your content deployment job
As already discussed in Part 5 content deployment will fail if the destination database contains conflicting content. To avoid this it is required that the initial deployment is done into an empty site collection.
Be aware that the only way to create an empty site collection is to use the following STSADM command:
STSADM.EXE -o createsite -url <url-to-site-collection> -ownerlogin domain\user -owneremail <email-address>
Using the "Blank Site" template will NOT create an empty site collection! It will actually create a site collection with content. You can see the difference if you create a site collection using both methods and then inspect the content of the created sites using SharePoint designer.
I personally recommed to always use the STSADM command with the syntax above to ensure that you really have an empty site collection as destination.
Impact: If the site collection has been created using a different method or already contains data the content deployment job will fail.
How to resolve: Deploy into an empty site collection
For your second question, content deployment will deploy the latest published version. If you don't want a minor version to be deployed (it's a draft, perhaps), simply do not publish it.
Reply 2 By http://social.technet.microsoft.com/profile/neal%20mcfee%20%5Bmct%5D/?ws=usercard-mini
To create a site collection that does not have a template (an empty site template) you omit the -template parameter in the New-SPSite cmdlet.
If you create a blank site using the STS#0, this will not work for the task you are trying to complete.
Try deleting the target site collection and recreating it using New-SPSite but do not specify the template.
Then re-run your publishing job.
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