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Published inJan 2011
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ISBN-139781849681087
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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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Importing sites


Importing sites in SharePoint 2010 at a granular level can be accomplished only through PowerShell.

Importing is akin to restoring the assets of the site. This can also be done for an item.

This recipe shows how to restore the site from the previous recipe.

Getting ready

An export sites file must exist.

The user must have access to one of the servers running PowerShell 2.0 and the user should be a member of the WSS_ADMIN_WPG group on the local computer. The user must also be a member of the db_owner database role and SharePoint_Shell_Access role in the following databases:

  • Source content database

  • Administration content database

  • Destination content database

How to do it...

  1. 1. Click on the Start button on the web frontend.

  2. 2. Under All Programs, navigate to the Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products folder.

  3. 3. Right-click on SharePoint 2010 Management Shell and click Run as Administrator. The PowerShell console will appear.

  4. 4. Type the following into the console window. Once the command is...

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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.
Read more about Peter Serzo