Migrating test site collection to production in Sharepoint Server 2019

Question

Hello everyone,

What are the options of moving a site collection from a UAT environment to a production environment. We want to perform updates to our SP Site collection in testbed and once tested successfully, move it to production. The production is already running an earlier version of the site, let's say v 1.00 and we want to move the site in UAT environment (v 2.00) to production. What are the methods to achieve it safely.

Thanks

Answer 1

Hi @Anonymous ,

Do you want to copy a site collection to another web application or another farm in SharePoint? Well, follow these steps to copy site collection to same/another farm.

1. Create a new Web application
2. Backup the live site collection
3. Restore the backup into the target web application
   • Backup the Source Site Collection: Backup-SPSite -Identity "http://contoso.com" -Path "D:\backup\portal.bak" -Force -NoSiteLock -Confirm:$False
   • Restore the backup into Target Site collection: Restore-SPSite "http://Astralis.com" -Path "D:\backup\portal.bak" -Force -Confirm:$False
     You can use this method to copy a site collection to same server or another server or another web application in SharePoint. Remember to do the following: Install & Deploy any Farm level feature to the newly created Web Application from Central Admin; Configure Web App settings, such as: Web Application policy, Outgoing Email settings, etc.

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