A client I’ve been working with recently has been migrating their Intranet from SharePoint 2007 to 2013, and we’ve been using the pretty impressive Quest Migration Suite for SharePoint, which is now sold by Dell since the Quest change of ownership.
I’ve found the tool to be very impressive, quite efficient and generally fairly intuitive, but I came across an interesting issue, or perhaps “side-effect”, that after reviewing the User Manual, isn’t “warned against”, but probably deserves to be.
I’ve been supporting a SharePoint 2013 environment that I didn’t build recently, and was trying to deploy some Excel spreadsheets in document libraries, which were implicitly being opened in Excel Services, except that appeared to be mis-configured. The very “un-descriptive” error message generated was a modal dialog box like the following:
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On a number of occasions, I’ve wanted to migrate a SharePoint 2010 Site Collection from a Production environment back over to a Testing or Development environment with, and the results have met with mixed success. The most common issue, was that the Managed Metadata term sets didn’t “hook up” correctly.
This problem is pretty much to be expected, given every SharePoint Farm has a separate Managed Metadata Service. And even if two Managed Metadata Services were “seeded” with the same term sets initially, they would never be “internally” equivalent. Why? Because, within every Managed Metadata Service, every term set, and within every term set, every term has a unique identifier assigned to it, as well as its textual description, to ensure uniqueness.
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