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How To Export/Import a Website in IIS 7.x

Tray Harrison — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 21:04:38 GMT

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Installing and Configuring NLB on Windows Server 2008

Tray Harrison — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 15:03:49 GMT

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How to Synchronize a Website Between Two IIS 6 Servers Using MSDeploy

Tray Harrison — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:32:19 GMT

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How to Connect to a Restored Content Database in SharePoint

Tray Harrison — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:27:15 GMT

Occasionally you’ll need to restore content databases in SharePoint, whether to recover some lost data or refresh a dev/test environment. Here are the steps needed in order to access the new data:

Determine which database contains the site collection you need to restore. You can find this by going to Central Administration—>Application Management—>Site Collection List. Choose the appropriate web application from the dropdown, and click on the site collection that you’re working with.

Restore your database within SQL. If restoring to the same environment, overwrite the existing database. If restoring to a different farm, restore it with the same name of the database you’ll be replacing. If you are restoring to a different farm, make sure the proper service accounts have rights to the database. At minimum the farm admin account will need to be assigned the dbcreator and securityadmin roles within SQL.
Once the database has been restored, you’ll then need to use stsadm –deletecontentdb in order to detach the old database from the site collection. The command needs to be in the following format: stsadm –o deletecontentdb –url http://websitename/sitecollection –databasename <ContentDBName>

Now you’ll need to use –addcontentDB to attach the restored DB to the site collection using the following format: stsadm –o addcontentdb –url http://websitename/sitecollection –databasename <ContentDBName> –databaseserver <SQLServerName>

You should now be able to access the site collection with the updated content database from a browser.

FIX: Security Groups and Distribution Lists are Missing Users from Child Domains Within SharePoint

Tray Harrison — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:12:59 GMT

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How To Determine Which Application Pool W3WP.EXE Belongs To on an IIS 7 Web Server

Tray Harrison — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:23:40 GMT

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How To Determine Which Application Pool W3WP.EXE Belongs To on an IIS 6 Web Server

Tray Harrison — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:58:48 GMT

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How To Cluster IIS 6 Web Servers

Tray Harrison — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:47:41 GMT

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Using the Web Deployment Tool to migrate from IIS 6 to IIS 7

Tray Harrison — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:23:08 GMT

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Synchronizing a site between two IIS 7 web servers

Tray Harrison — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:21:03 GMT

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