What do you guys mean by this?
Promote parts of a site tree to a new site collection on the same or different web application
We currently use Migration Manager for SharePoint and no doubt 2003-2007 migration is important but 2007-2007 migration is needed as well.
About time you guys are doing this.
Good Luck.
Hassan
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Hi Hassan,
First off thanks for using Migration Manager! Hope you like it!
As for sub-site promotion, assume you have a huge site collection with lots of sites and content. Due to lack of upfront planning, sites with different SLAs all end up sitting in a single content database. The database grows too big, the DR backup becomes a problem. Solution? Take portions of the site collection and move them to their own site collections in a separate database. That's exactly what sub-site promotion is for.
You just specify the root site to move, the target URL for the new site collection, decide on which database it will go to, and Reorg Wizard does it for you:
Then it's done, and you are good with your new site collection - you can delete the original site to finalize the move. The Delete Site tool will do a cascaded delete for you. You can imagine how much pain it would be if you do it manually for a more or less nested site tree. Remember that 'Cannot delete a site that has subsites' error?
Hope this helps,
Alex
So what you are saying is that we can create a new site collection out of a Sub-site, how will we decide to which Content DB to move to?
Currently we run scripts to create new site collections, because every site collection has different requirements, it has to be in its own content DB, a particular site template, quota limit, SQL Content DB Data Growth Rate factors and so much more.
So if I move Child Site, all subsites under this Child Site will be moved as well.
That is a cool feature.
Good going.
H
hassan14_pk: So what you are saying is that we can create a new site collection out of a Sub-site, how will we decide to which Content DB to move to?
What Alex didn't show in the original screenshot are the Site Collection options. This lets you handle the Content DBs. It's sort of small in the animation, but the options are Auto, New, Existing.
I hope this helps,
Tim