Restoring a site collection and an error

Robert Bogue October 21, 2007 No Comments

I recently received the following message while trying to restore a site collection backup:

“No content databases are available for this operation. Create a content database, and then try the operation again. To create a content database, click “Content databases” on the Application Management page, select the Web application to use, and then click “Add a content database”

The issue was that I had already restored the backup on the system and in the existing content database for the web application. Since the site collection doesn’t change GUIDs you can’t restore a site collection into two site collections in a web application that has only one content database – it has to be in a separate content DB. Add a new content DB and the error goes away.

Training Resources for Web Content Management

Robert Bogue October 21, 2007 No Comments

[Note: I put this together for a client a few months ago and forgot to post it here.]
[Note: 07-11-12: Updated a few links.]

This is a list of resources for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007’s (MOSS) Web Content Management feature (WCM).

On-Line

The following resources are On-Line resources. This includes web casts, blog entries, articles, etc.

Microsoft (Free)

The following links are free links from Microsoft’s web sites.

MS Site	Content
Downloads	2007 Office System Video: Enterprise Content Management [resource removed]
Channel9	Web Content Management in MOSS 2007
MSDN	Customizing and Branding Web Content Management-Enabled SharePoint Sites (Part 1 of 3): Understanding Web Content Management and the Default Features
MSDN	Customizing and Branding Web Content Management-Enabled SharePoint Sites (Part 2 of 3): Extending WCM
MSDN	Customizing and Branding Web Content Management-Enabled SharePoint Sites (Part 3 of 3): Creating and Configuring WCM-Enabled Sites
MSDN Webcasts	The Evolution of Web ContentMangagement in the 2007 Version of Microsoft Office – Level 200 [These were all removed – sorry!] Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Web Content Management for Developers and Designers Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Web Content Management for Site Administrators and Owners Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Web Content Management for Content Owners and Authors

Microsoft eLearning

The following resource is a for-pay resource available from Microsoft:

Course 5253: Implementing Content Management Solutions by Using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

Microsoft Blogs

The following are Microsoft sponsored blogs that contain content relative to Web Content Management:

Enterprise Content Management Team Blog
SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog

Books

The following books may be of assistance with Web Content Management topics. I didn’t list books which were not available today:

Title	Notes
Real World SharePoint 2007: Indispensable Experiences from 16 MOSS and WSS MVPs	One chapter by Andrew Connell. I did a tech edit for this book on all but one chapter – the one I wrote on workflow.
Essential SharePoint 2007	No coverage of web content management but has some decent appendices on SharePoint end user use.
Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Unleashed	24 pages on Web Content Management
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Administrator’s Companion	30 pages on Web Content Management with a heavy focus on administrative issues.

Training

There’s only one course available for Web Content Management right now. That is Developing Publishing Sites with SharePoint Server 2007 WCM. It’s available as an on-site or an on-line version.

Restoring a site collection and an error

Training Resources for Web Content Management

On-Line

Microsoft (Free)

Customizing and Branding Web Content Management-Enabled SharePoint Sites (Part 3 of 3): Creating and Configuring WCM-Enabled Sites

The Evolution of Web ContentMangagement in the 2007 Version of Microsoft Office – Level 200

Microsoft eLearning

Microsoft Blogs

Books

Training

Recent Posts

Public Speaking