[OzMOSS] RE: create SharePoint development same as production site

2008-11-18 Thread Michael Nemtsev
There is no issues if you restore you farm backup to single SharePoint instance. It will work fine. It's common scenario when you design you Disaster Recovery (DR) box, and you don't need farm there - only single instance. So you restore your backup there and set up SQL mirroring. There is no

Re: [OzMOSS] RE: create SharePoint development same as production site

2008-11-18 Thread Ajay
I have been using backup/restore for deployment between different environments and then I found this *Be aware that backup/restore of MOSS content databases between server farms are not fully supported! Official documentation of this support limitation is currently in the works. The supported

RE: [OzMOSS] RE: create SharePoint development same as production site

2008-11-18 Thread Michael Nemtsev
I never had issues which Stefan described. I believe it will be fixed with the SP2 Michael Nemtsev | WSS MCTS, MS MVP Readify B: http://msmvps.com/blogs/laflour/ T: +61 424 184 978 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ajay

[OzMOSS] Unable to access Page Settings

2008-11-18 Thread Aaron Cunnington
Hi guys, Has anyone seen the issue of trying to access the Page settings of a publishing page and getting Value does not fall within the expected range. error The logs show the following details about the page: Console: Current page whose properties are being edited:

RE: [OzMOSS] RE: create SharePoint development same as production site

2008-11-18 Thread Uzma Naz
My central administration backup feature was riddled with errors, with lots of incorrect content databases and paths. So I've done a clean install of SP2007 on a new server and selected which sites I wanted to transfer, as I was working on a dev environment anyway. I found that the tool

RE: [OzMOSS] RE: create SharePoint development same as production site

2008-11-18 Thread Michael Nemtsev
You will find those errors during backup/restore. So, it will be clear if OOTB backup works or not. I would not recommend using STSADM -o export/import till you have no problems with UI tools There are no issues with export/import command, but it's very error-proned approach, and you should

RE: [OzMOSS] Unable to access Page Settings

2008-11-18 Thread Paul Noone
Hi Aaron, That's an easy one. I get it all the time. :) It happens when you restore WCM sites to another location. The Page Layout source URL is not updated to reflect the new location. There are several painful options I tried before finally coming across this:

RE: [OzMOSS] RE: create SharePoint development same as production site

2008-11-18 Thread Paul Noone
Having now tried several tests through UI (and received only errors) and STSADM (and seen the hell that breaks loose afterwards) I've gone down Uzma's path of only backing up individual sites and restoring to dev as required for testing and development. Hardly ideal. With publishing sites (and

RE: [OzMOSS] RE: create SharePoint development same as production site

2008-11-18 Thread Ishai Sagi
I didn't realize I had daily rants. Maybe my pills are finally making an impact! From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Noone Sent: Wednesday, 19 November 2008 10:11 AM To: listserver@ozMOSS.com Subject: RE: [OzMOSS] RE: create SharePoint development same as

RE: [OzMOSS] RE: create SharePoint development same as production site

2008-11-18 Thread Daniel Brown
Ø Having now tried several tests through UI (and received only errors) and STSADM (and seen the hell that breaks loose afterwards) I’ve gone down Uzma’s path of only backing up individual sites and restoring to dev as required for testing and development. Hardly ideal What Errors? Did you deploy

RE: [OzMOSS] Unable to access Page Settings

2008-11-18 Thread Aaron Cunnington
Hi Paul, You're a life saver! I had already tried the STSADM Custom Extensions but it didn't seem to resolve the issue, however, after running up the FixLayouts and stepping through it I managed to get that issue resolved. Hopefully this will solve my backup issues which I believe this was

RE: [SPAM] RE: [OzMOSS] RE: create SharePoint development same as production site

2008-11-18 Thread Paul Culmsee
Ages ago I read the blog of a former MS employee who was on the team that did STSADM backup and restore stuff and he stated that the reason site level backup/restore was not supported was that it was too buggy and the feature was removed (because I used to use site level methods with the previous

RE: [OzMOSS] RE: create SharePoint development same as production site

2008-11-18 Thread Paul Noone
Hi Daniel, Thanks for taking the time to respond. I've responded inline but think I need to stress here that these are not just my problems. Neither are the problems limited to what's discussed here. This is, after all, just one small facet of administration. Everywhere you look on the web

[OzMOSS] Enable advanced usage analysis processing then 403 Forbidden

2008-11-18 Thread Marten Ataalla
Devs, In SSP Settings, under *Configure Advanced Usage Analysis Processing*, when I check the box Enable advanced usage analysis processing then click *OK*, I get a 403 forbidden error *You are not authorized to view this page* I am trying to do this because a site collection admin cannot view

RE: [OzMOSS] Enable advanced usage analysis processing then 403 Forbidden

2008-11-18 Thread Michael Nemtsev
Try to open the SSL site of Office service (exists in IIS). Is it working?! Michael Nemtsev | WSS MCTS, MS MVP Readify B: http://msmvps.com/blogs/laflour/ T: +61 424 184 978 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marten