1. Getting Started with Content
Deployment
Presented By: Prashant G Bhoyar
07 December 2013
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2. Who am I?
• SharePoint Consultant at
Portal Solutions
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Product - AuthentiMate
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Services – We love SharePoint
..
• Guy with multiple hats
• University of Maryland
College Park Alumni
• Recipient of Antarctic Service
Medal
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3. About Today’s Session
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Sharing is Caring
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Ask Questions
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Let the learning begins…
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4. What Will We Cover Today?
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What is Content Deployment?
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Content Deployment Topologies
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How Does Content Deployment job works?
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How to Setup Content Deployment?
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Common Misconceptions
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How to Test/Debug Content Deployment?
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Common Issues and Fixes
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Best Practices
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6. What is Content Deployment?
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Moving published contents from one site collection to another
Authors
Authoring
Environment
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Publishing
Environment
Internet/Intranet
visitors

7. What is Content Deployment?
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Allows Designers and Content Publishers to work on Non
Production Environment
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Helps in Regulatory/Legal Requirements
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Helps in applying tighter security
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Helps in Disaster Recovery
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Good for Public Facing Web Sites with Static Content
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8. What's Get Carried Over?
List
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Libraries
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Documents
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Metadata
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Pages
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Other resources used by deployed pages
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Less Complexity
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9. What's NOT Get Carried Over?
SharePoint Full Trust Solutions
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Workflows
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Assemblies
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File System Changes
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Configuration Files ( web.config)
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Less Complexity
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11. Content Deployment Topology
Single Farm
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Source and Target in separate database
Authoring Site
Collection
Single Farm
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Production
Site Collection
Less Complexity
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12. • Two Farm ( Authoring and Production)
Authoring Farm
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Production Farm
Less Complexity
Content Deployment Topology

13. Content Deployment Topology
Staged Approach (Development Staging and Production)
Authoring Farm
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Stage Farm
Alternate
Deployment Path
Less Complexity
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Production Farm

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15. Less Complexity
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee721058.aspx
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16. Typical Content Deployment Life Cycle
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18. Less Complexity
Configure Destination Farm
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19. Configure Destination Farm
For all jobs across the Farm
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Accept
Content
Deployment
Jobs
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Import Server
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Export Server
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Connection
Security
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Temporary
Files
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Reporting
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Less Complexity
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20. Create Target Site Collection
Create empty site collection and do not specify template
Less Complexity
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OR
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New-SPSite -Url http://siteUrl -OwnerAlias “sharepointlabpgbhoyar”
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21. Less Complexity
Configure Source Farm
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22. Configure Source Farm
Create Content Deployment Path
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Name
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Source Web
Application and Site
Collection
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Destination Central
Admin
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Authentication
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Destination Web
App and Site
Collection
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User Names
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Security Information
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Less Complexity
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23. Configure Source Farm
Create Content Deployment Job
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Name
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Path
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SQL Snapshots
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Scope
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Frequency
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Notification
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Less Complexity
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24. Types of Content Deployment Jobs
Full
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Deploys all the content
Keep the Destination Content
Incremental
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Deploys new/updated/deleted content
Quick Deploy
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Only for Web Pages
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No dependent list/libraries and other assets
Requires Publishing Infrastructure Feature Enabled
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Less Complexity
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25. Less Complexity
Configure Source Farm
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26. DEMO
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28. • One way communication only
• Require Identical Version of SharePoint
• No Full Trust Solutions
• No Configuration Changes
• No File System Changes
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Common Misconceptions

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30. Common Issues and Fixes
• Latency between when the content is
authored/published & when it is live
• Authors having direct access to Target
• Content Deployment job is stuck
• Custom Solutions modifying content databases
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31. PowerShell Commands
• Get-SPContentDeploymentPath
• Display Deployment Jobs Configured on the Farm
• Get-SPContentDeploymentJob
• Get a Specific Content Deployment Job
• $job = Get-SPContentDeploymentJob -Identity “JobName“
• To Get a Specific Content Deployment Path
• $path = Get-SPContentDeploymentPath -Identity "PathName“
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Less Complexity
• To Display Deployment Paths Configured on the Farm

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33. Best Practices
• Identical Updates in Source and Destination Farms
• Create the target site collection with no template
• Do not modify the contents directly in Target Site
• Run Deployment Jobs at different time intervals
• After first full deployment, run incremental jobs only
• In production restart the Timer Services using command
• “Get-SPTimerJob job-timer-recycle | Start-SPTimerJob”
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34. When not to use Content
Deployment?
• Contents in the Target are Dynamic
• Users will edit the contents in the Target Site
• Better alternatives are available like Cross Site
Publishing in SharePoint 2013
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35. •
Yes if,
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Regulatory/Legal and Security
Requirements
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Latency is not an issue
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Contents are static in Target Site
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Less Complexity
Is Content Deployment Right
Choice?

36. References
Appendix/Resources
MSDN/TechNet:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee721058.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/tothesharepoint/archive/2013/07/17/changesto-content-deployment-in-sharepoint-server-2013.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/stefan_gossner/archive/2009/10/30/contentdeployment-the-complete-guide-part-1-the-basics.aspx
Books:
Pro SharePoint 2013 – Rob Garrett
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37. Thanks to our sponsors!
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39. Thank You
Organizers, Sponsors and You for Making this
Possible.
Questions? Feedback? Contact me:
 Twitter: @PGBhoyar
 Blog:
http://pgbhoyar.wordpress.com (limited contents)
 Email:
pgbhoyar@gmail.com
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