Content Deployment BootCamp

Mark Rhodes
Content Deployment Bootcamp

About Me
Infrastructure Consultant with OBS
Infrequently blog at http://tinyurl.com/mrhodes
Frequently tweet at @mrhodes
Email markrhodes@gmail.com

WHAT IS Content Deployment AND What does it do?
MOSS 2007 / SharePoint Server 2010 Technology
Replicates Content
Can replicate across servers
Is secure
Works Efficient
Can be very stable
Retains Object Identities
Fixes links

Content Deployment Perceptions
The SharePoint team did a lot of work to optimize working with both Variations and Content Deployment. Both mechanisms are now more robust and reliable.
Much better. I’ve found on a scale of 1 to 10 that Content Deployment 2010 is +3 to the scale of Content Deployment in SharePoint 2007.
Microsoft has done some significant work with the content deployment feature within SharePoint 2010. MOSS 2007 automated content deployment had serious limitations and was often avoided because of unexpected results. It is a bit early to say whether 2010 will avoid all of those issues, but getting a chance to work with it over the last days has demonstrated some huge improvements.
The SharePoint team did a lot of work to optimize working with both Variations and Content Deployment. Both mechanisms are now more robust and reliable.
Its fantastic, its such an improvement on 2010!
Content Deployment indeed has a bad rep. Well deserved back in 2007 when MOSS was released. Not so much anymore. If done properly CDS will work just great in 2007 and there are some *huge* companies with *huge* sites using it. 2010 includes all the fixes from the IUs and beyond, in addition it has much better reporting and support for SQL Snapshots on export. Along with other under the covers improvements with PRIME.
I found the feature to be flaky in 2007, but if other improvements in 2010 are anything to go by I’m looking forward to seeing what it can do.
Content Deployment has had a bad rap over the initial stages of SharePoint 2007, however since Service Pack 2 there have been no compelling reasons not to use it when replicating content from a staging site to a production site.
Yes!
In the right hands, an extremely powerful tool for SharePoint Web Content Management

A Brief history of Content Deployment

Example Architecture

Situations for CONTENT DEPLOYMENT?
Security Concerns
Site Performance
Identical Content, Different Farm Topology

What doesn’t it do?
Will not take anything stored outside of Site Collection
Will not move configuration data or service application data
Will not move solutions, features, assemblies
Not designed for backup or restore purposes
No Alerts, Audit Trail, Change Logs, Check In / Check Out State, Recycle Bin Items, Recycle Bin State, Security State, Workflow tasks, Workflow state.
Bi-directional Replication

What’s new in 2010?
Support for 2000+ pages on single site
Web Analytics
SQL Server Snapshot Support
Publishing Sanity
AJAX
Content Deployment Aware Event Handling
Support for Multi-Tenancy

Paths and Jobs
Destination Server
Source Server
Web Application
Web Application
PATH
Site Collection
Site Collection
Job

GUI Options
Source Web Application
Destination Farm
Destination Web Application
Transmission Security
Users and Security
API Options
Compression
Event Receiver Support
Keep Temporary Files
Content deployment anatomy : Path

Content Deployment Anatomy : job

Content Deployment Anatomy : Payload

Content Deployment Demo
LETS see it in action

Tips for successful implementation
Security
Hygiene
Know your platform
Documentation
Common Sense

Tips for recovering failed Content deployments
Was the Destination Site blank?
Recreate the Path and Job
Create a fresh blank Site Collection
Content Deployment Manifest Reader
MOSS2007 – Service Packs and Cumulative Updates
Check Trace Logs
Upgrade to SharePoint 2010

Resources
Microsoft’s SharePoint 2010 Content Deployment Poster
http://tinyurl.com/cdposter

My Bloghttp://tinyurl.com/mrhodes
Stefan Gossnerhttp://blogs.technet.com/b/stefan_gossner
Spencer Harbarhttp://www.harbar.net
Maxime Bombardierhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/maximeb/
Resources

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Content Deployment BootCamp

by markrhodes on Jun 18, 2010

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