Hi,
we have a teamsite with custom master pages, css,jacsript, jQuery,custom web parts,customized OOTB web parts, XSLT in a site within a site collection and saved as a site template we are creating other team sites based on this template.
We have not used site definitions and WebTemplates for this process.
We havecarried out this project in the Dev.environment which is a Win 7 enterprise machine with
SP 2010 / SQL 2008 R2 installed .
But now we are facing this issue : how to port this template and site collection in my test/staging environment.
we want to port this to a new envnmnt where the OS is Windows server 2008 R2 / SP 2010 and
SQL 2008 R2 is installed.
We tried to port the site collection using backup operation and restore it in the staging.
But this throws an exception SQL Server version issues. the sql version we used in win 7 machine was lower compared to the SQL we are using in the staging environment.
So, how to perform this, by porting the site /site collection into staging/prod envmnt.
there is no way we can achieve this without recreating the site colelction /site / add those ustom master pages. css, jascripts etc . in the staging/ prod. envnmnt?
This is a tedious process, any idea , how can we automate this.
any help is appreciated.