From my initial analysis I did not find the same UI in SharePoint Server 2010 to export variations, however this can be achieved by using the following web service.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.publishing.webservices.publishingservice.exportobjects%28v=office.14%29.aspx

Code extract from MSDN.

using System;

using System.IO;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Text;

using System.Net;

//Replace macro with "(your assembly name).(name of your Web reference)"

using PublishingServiceClient = Microsoft.SDK.SharePoint.Server.Samples.PublishingServiceClient;

namespace Microsoft.SDK.SharePoint.Server.Samples

{

    class Program

    {

        static void Main(string[] args)

        {        

            // Create a Web reference (named "PublishingServiceClient" here)which generates a SOAP Client class of the same name.

            // URL to the Web service is given by "https://servername/site/_vti_bin/PublishingService.asmx" 

            // Access the Web service methods using objects of this class.

            PublishingServiceClient.PublishingService publishingServiceClient = new PublishingServiceClient.PublishingService();

            //Create credentials for the user accessing the Web service. The export requires site administrator privileges.

            //Use default credentials if the user running client has required rights at the server.

            //Otherwise, explicitly create Credentials using new System.Net.Credentials("username","passwd", "domain").

            publishingServiceClient.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;

            //Replace webUrl with the url of the site you want to export.

            string webUrl = "https://servername/Variation Home/Variation Site";

            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(webUrl))

            {

                //Invoke the SOAP Client Method.

                byte[] compressedFileContent = publishingServiceClient.ExportObjects(webUrl);

                File.WriteAllBytes(Path.GetTempFileName(), compressedFileContent);

                //Uncompress the file for translation.

            }            

        ...

Ever faced with a situation where the wsp job gets stuck on deploying. If yes, please check if all the servers in farm are on the same timezone. I faced a scenario where one of the servers was accidently changed by the developers to a different time zone and it cause the wsp deployment to be stuck on deploying for a long time. After checking various options including disabling Anti-virus, I found that the time zone on one of the machines was set to different zone, almost (5 hours behind ). After setting the time zone correctly and restarting the timer job the wsps got deployed without any issues.

If you encounter error while opening a word file from SharePoint 2010 Document library, you need to try and uncheck the Protected View setting under word option.

If you have encountered “Error in PortalCrawl Web Service” when the MySite url (e.g sps3://mysite:567/ ) is being crawled then the most likely cause of the error is due to

a) Permission error . Permission needs to be given to the crawl account to the UPA. The permission is “Retrieve People Data for Search Crawlers”

b) The other issue could be MySite Host template is not installed on Root URL. In my scenario it was working for SharePoint 2007 farm, but fails it is not installed on root url for SharePoint Server 2010.

While working on Profiles and Metadata Service Federation between 2 farms I noticed that the “I like IT” button was missing in the child farm. After spending significant amount of time troubleshooting the Linking I found that I had missed to select the below checkboxes after creating the connection to “Service Application” in the destination farm.

The selection of checkboxes is necessary on the “Child Farm” proxy connection. This can be evoked by clicking on the “Properties” button with the focus enabled on the Proxy Connection.

Admin approved form from MOSS 2007 get deployed as features within the 12 features hive under folders named with GUIDs. These need special handling to be moved to SharePoint 2010. The following steps need to be performed.

a) Export the Admin approved IP templates using stsadm command.

using stsadm -o exportipfsadminobjects command export the IP forms to a CAB file.

b) Import this into the SharePoint 2010 environment using the Windows PowerShell 2.0 Import-SPInfoPathAdministrationFiles cmdlet.

c) Check if the files are imported correctly by browsing to the Central Admin –> Manage Infopath Form Templates.

a) Add a silverlight webpart on your page.

b) Point the silverlight webpart to load mediaplayer.xap file from 14 hive under \layouts\ClientBin.

c) Set the custom initialization string property in the webpart to the the following in case you want the video to start automatically after loading. I placed the .wmv file in the same folder called ClientBIn. Hope it helps.

autoPlay=true,mediaSource=wildlife.wmv,mediaTitle=SharePoint