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You perform an stsadm -o export on a SharePoint site and then try to import that site using stsadm -o import into a different site collection.  Upon analyzing the import log file you notice several errors referring to ''The form submission cannot be processed because it exceeded the maximum length allowed by the Web administrator.''  The ...

Recently I had to move some WSS 3.0 sites from a development server to production (post upgrade from WSS 2.0).  I used the stsadm import/export pair to create the necessary files to facilitate the move.  An interesting thing happened… I exported the site (and underlying sites) using: Stsadm –o export –url <url> -filename ...

Found another goodie in MOSS SP1... By default, a web application that is tied to Windows Authentication will search the entire Active Directory to resolve user names.  This is great for a corporate intranet but what if you are building something smaller that is intended for use by a particular Organizational Unit (OU)?  You would want ...

Another important note on upgrading from WSS 2003 to 2007... one of the challenges of working with stsadm with WSS 2003 was that the backup\restore commands only worked at the site collection level.  That meant that you could not backup and restore a single site.  Ouch!  With WSS 2007 there are two new commands, import and export, ...

You go to your portal this morning and instead of seeing the home page you are greeted with a '404' error page.  Something is wrong!  You look in Central Administration and you notice that your Web Application is there but the site collection is gone.  Ouch!  Time to recover... In this scenario, let's assume that you have NOT ...

Usage:           stsadm.exe -o <operation> [<parameters>]           stsadm.exe -help [<operation>]Operations:           ...

As you have seen from previous posts, I am a big fan of Disaster Recovery planning.  Having a good backup in place should allow you (and your business users) to sleep better at night... knowing that your SharePoint data is protected. MOSS 2007 has some fantastic backup/restore functionality... but it still doesn't have a scheduler.  ...