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Published inJan 2011
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Peter Serzo
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Peter Serzo is an English major from Kent State who started his technical career with EDS out of college. 20 years later, all as a consultant, he is a national speaker regarding to SharePoint having worked at organizations of all sizes. His next challenge is to bring SharePoint to children and teach them. He has been working with SharePoint since 2003 in companies such as Microsoft, Ford, ADP, and many others throughout the United States. He is a Senior SharePoint Architect for High Monkey Consulting. The name refers to an old Jamaican proverb that means the higher up you go, the more responsible you must be; High Monkey takes pride in its accountability and excellence of work in regards to its clients' needs.
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Exporting sites


SharePoint 2010 contains another component to the granular backup—the ability to export sites and lists.

The benefit of this in an administrator's toolbox is the capability of moving content at a granular level. While users have the capability of creating templates and saving data with their lists, there is a limit to the size of templates. Administrators can move this information, and can write scripts in PowerShell on what needs to be done, for maximum efficiency.

In this recipe, we will export a site under a site collection.

Getting ready

You must have administrator privileges on the SharePoint farm. There must be a site created under the site collection.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Open the Central Administration screen and click Backup and Restore.

  2. 2. The second section is Granular Backup. Under this section, click Export a site or list.

  3. 3. The following page is displayed:

    Fill in the required data.

    • Site Collection: Select the site collection where the site is located.

    • Site: Select...

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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administration Cookbook
Published in: Jan 2011Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781849681087

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Peter Serzo

Peter Serzo is an English major from Kent State who started his technical career with EDS out of college. 20 years later, all as a consultant, he is a national speaker regarding to SharePoint having worked at organizations of all sizes. His next challenge is to bring SharePoint to children and teach them. He has been working with SharePoint since 2003 in companies such as Microsoft, Ford, ADP, and many others throughout the United States. He is a Senior SharePoint Architect for High Monkey Consulting. The name refers to an old Jamaican proverb that means the higher up you go, the more responsible you must be; High Monkey takes pride in its accountability and excellence of work in regards to its clients' needs.
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