E-mail notifications for alerts are not sent when content in a migrated site

[Courtesy: Microsoft Knowledge Base Article]

As mentioned in the subjected above, we have encountered the issue that existing alerts were not firing after the site migration. I digged into the Micrsoft Knowledge Base and I found out the below support article.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936759

There is an awesome tool for SharePoint administrator to update these existing alerts.The new stsadm -o updatealert command was released in the SharePoint Administration Toolkit. For more information and to download the toolkit, visit one of the following Microsoft Web sites, depending on the version of Windows SharePoint Services that you are running.

SharePoint Administration Toolkit x64

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=F8EEA8F0-FA30-4C10-ABC9-217EEACEC9CE&displaylang=en

SharePoint Administration Toolkit x86

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=263CD480-F6EB-4FA3-9F2E-2D47618505F2&displaylang=en

For more information, see the “Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit” white paper. To do this, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=117212&clcid=0×409

 

 

Enjoy!!!

 

URL Redirection after the Migration – SharePoint

When we done with the migration work from one environment to another environment, obviously stake holder would ask the SharePoint administrator to provide the URL redirection mechanism as users have been accessing the old URL from the favorites, outlook, and shortcuts.

There are multiple options for SP administrator to achieve this task like creating URLMapping element in the web.config, or writing URL Rewriting using HTTP Modules, etc. But these methods are time consuming and we can not test code as we are working on the production migration. So, the only option is to change the redirection URL at the IIS level. Below is the workable and quick solution for this task.

Just set “The exact URL entered above” and “A permanent redirection for this resource” on the IIS and enter your fully qualified host name entry as follows

http://contoso.corp.com$S$Q

The $S$Q will maintain all URLs on our other host names that enter.

This would redirect all your http://contoso.external.com/* HTTP calls to http://contoso.corp.com/*.

How simple is it right?

 

Retrieve Absoulte URLs in the SharePoint Site Navigation

SharePoint users would love to use the hard-coded URLs in the SharePoint navigation. But they dont know what would be the impact while migrating site from one place to another and also it is really hard to find and replace these URLs as it’s time consuming.

SP administrator should have to use some tool to find out these hard-coded urls and change it manually. The below SQL query would point out the hard-coded URLs in each content databases. Also, I heard some webparts are available at the CodePlex.com to find and replace these hard-coded URLs.

use [CONTENT_DATABASE_NAME]
go

select webs.title as SiteName, navnodes.url as AbsoulteUrl, webs.fullurl as location
from navnodes
join webs on navnodes.webid = webs.id
where navnodes.url like ‘%http://%’