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On the 20th May, we released two hotfix packages focused on Content Deployment.  These packages delivered performance improvements and addressed a number of known customer pain points.  The hotfixes have been rolled in to the Infrastructure Update for Office Servers that was released today so if you’ve been experiencing issues with Content Deployment, download the pack, install it and you’ll get federated search thrown in with the deal.

The updates can be downloaded from the links below:

Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (KB951297) – x86
Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (KB951297) – x64
Infrastructure Update for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (KB951695) – x86
Infrastructure Update for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (KB951695) – x64
Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Project 2007 (KB951547) – x86

Installation Instructions are available from the links below:

Deploy Software Updates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
Deploy Software Updates for Office SharePoint Server 2007 – This article also applies to Project Server 2007, SharePoint Server 2007, Search Server 2008 and Search Server 2008 Express.
Install the Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (Office SharePoint Server 2007) (This article will go live later today)
Install the Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (Search Server 2008) (This article will go live later today)

 While you are installing the Infrastructure Update, I’d recommend you have a read of the following blog posts on Content Deployment:

1. SharePoint ECM Team Blog on “End to End Content Deployment Walkthrough“


2. Stefan Goßner’s “Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API“


3. Spencer Harbar’s “Ensure your platform hygiene…“

Here is a summary of the Content Deployment issues addressed in the Infrastructure Update:

Incremental bug fixes:

• Incremental import can fail if a feature with a custom content type has been reactivated on the destination.


• Unpublished pages do not get unpublished on the destination.


• Reinheriting permissions on the source does not propagate incrementally.


• Deleting a permission level on the source causes a “Permission level cannot be found.” exception during incremental import.


• Incremental behavior with the Recycle Bin improved. Incremental import fails with a “FatalError: You cannot perform this action on a checked out document.” exception.


• “Violation of PRIMARY KEY constraint” error during export.


• Document “Title” field does not get deployed by incremental deployment in some cases.


• In some cases, making permissions changes on the source or destination will result in a “The specified name is already in use.” error.


• Deleting or renaming an item then creating one with the same name causes incremental deployment to fail.


• Incremental deployment fails when pages have independent permission settings.


• Deleting a file and folder can cause incremental deployment to fail in some cases.

Other bug fixes:

• Removing a User from a group does not propagate to the destination during incremental deployment.


• Some source web settings related to search are not propagated to the destination.


• Content Deployment can time out incorrectly on large deployment jobs.


• Miscellaneous SQL deadlocks.


• Quick deployment jobs behave incorrectly when Variations is used.


• Quick deployment fails when pages are Quick Deployed while the Quick Deploy job is running.


• Running One-time jobs manually can fail.


• In some cases, a content deployment job can get stuck in a “Preparing” state forever.


• Deployment sometimes unghosts items that are ghosted on the source.


• Custom master page settings on the source are not propagated to the destination during deployment.


• Content deployment fails when compression is disabled.

If you want more details on the Content Deployment issues addressed in the Infrastructure Update, visit the Microsoft Help and Support site:

WSS: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952698/
MOSS: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952704/

Ryan Duguid
Technical Product Manager
Microsoft Corp

Hi, I’m Cern McAtee, a technical writer for Office SharePoint Server 2007. I’m pleased to announce that the Office SharePoint Server 2007 content team and the Global Readiness team have combined efforts to write and publish a new walkthrough guide for content deployment: End-to-End Content Deployment Walkthrough.

What’s covered

This downloadable guide is aimed at IT pros planning to use content deployment with their enterprise sites using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. The guide takes you through the steps for setting up source and destination site collections, creating a deployment path and job, and then running the job to see how it populates the destination site collection with the content from the source site collection. One important thing to note when it comes to doing content deployment is that when you first set it up, the destination site collection must be empty. You can create the destination site collection using either the Blank site template, or by using the Stsadm createsite operation to create an empty site.

In addition to the walkthrough, we have also published a set of topics about Administering Web content management that cover publishing and content deployment operations. These topics are intended for IT pros who manage publishing and content deployment for their enterprise sites. More WCM topics that cover cache settings and profiles, document conversion, and variations will be published soon.

Send your feedback

We’re very excited about publishing this walkthrough guide and the new WCM content, and we’re especially interested in your feedback on this new content. There are three ways you can provide feedback on this content: First, in each topic you will find a “Click to Rate and Give Feedback” control with a text box for supplying feedback. Second, you can send us mail at o12ITdx at Microsoft.com. Third, you can use the “Leave a Comment” interface in this blog to provide comments, either about this blog entry or about the newly published content.

We look forward to hearing from you and to continuing to improve this content in partnership with you!

Thanks,

Cern McAtee
SharePoint Enterprise Solutions content team

Hi, my name is Claudia Lake. I am a technical writer on the SharePoint Enterprise Solutions content team. In response to feedback from users, we have created Administering Records Management, which is a new set of IT Pro documentation on TechNet about records management in Office SharePoint Server 2007.

What’s covered?

In addition to providing information about how to create a Records Center site, the new records management administration documentation covers the following areas:

·         Configuring an active document site for records management

·         Configuring an Exchange Server 2007 e-mail server to send records to a Records Center site

·         Managing holds

·         Monitoring the Records Center site

Our intention is to provide you with all of the information you need to successfully set up, configure, and administer a Records Center site in Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Feedback welcome!

Have you ever wished you could have a say in the way documentation is written here at Microsoft? Well, now’s your chance. We welcome your feedback on the new Administering Records Management documentation and will do our best to make the improvements you suggest. What would we like to know? We’d like to know things like:  Is this content useful? Is it detailed enough? Did we leave something out that you feel would be helpful? Did we include something that you feel has no value? We’re also interested in hearing what you like about this content so we can keep doing it. Anything you feel we should know about the Administering Records Management content is very important to us. Let us know what you think!

There are three ways that you can provide feedback about the Administering Records Management documentation:

1.       The upper-right corner of each page has a Click to Rate and Give Feedback section. Click a star to rate the page and optionally provide feedback.

2.       You can e-mail us at o12itdx at Microsoft.com.

3.       You can use the “Leave a Comment” feature in this blog to provide comments, either about this blog post or about the Administering Records Management content.

We look forward to hearing from you and to working with you to make our content the best it can be.

Sincerely,

Claudia Lake

SharePoint Enterprise Solutions content team