Create a new content deployment path

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Applies To: Office SharePoint Server 2007

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Before you perform this procedure, confirm that:

Important

At the minimum, you must be a member of the Farm Administrators SharePoint group to complete this procedure.

Create a new content deployment path

Use this procedure to create a new content deployment path.

To create a new content deployment path

  1. On the top navigation bar of the Central Administration Web site, click Operations.

  2. On the Operations page, in the Content Deployment section, click Content deployment paths and jobs.

  3. On the Manage Content Deployment Paths and Jobs page, click New Path.

  4. On the Create Content Deployment Path page, type a name for the content deployment path in the Type the name of this path box.

  5. Type a description of the content deployment path in the Type the description of the content deployment path box.

  6. In the Source Web Application and Site Collection section, in the Source Web application list, click a source Web application.

  7. Click a source site collection on the Source site collection menu.

    The Web application and site collection determine from where the content is being deployed. After you make your selections, the source location is displayed under URL.

  8. In the Destination Central Administration Web Application section, type the URL of the destination Central Administration server in the Type the URL of the Destination Central Administration Server box.

    Note

    This is the URL of the Central Administration server on the destination server; it is not the URL of the server that is configured to accept incoming content deployment jobs.

  9. In the Authentication Information section, select one of the following:

    • Connect by using the application pool account   Select this option if you want to use the application pool account to authenticate on the destination Central Administration server.

      Note

      The application pool account in this option is the same application pool account that is used to run the Central Administration Web site.

    • Connect by using a different account   Select this option if you want to use an account other than the application pool account for authentication on the destination Central Administration server. If you select this option, select an authentication type and provide credentials for the account to use for authentication.

  10. Click Connect.

    Note

    If the credentials you entered are valid, the message Connection succeeded appears.

    You are connected to the destination Central Administration server, which supplies a list of eligible destination Web applications and site collections.

  11. In the Destination Web Application and site collection section, click a destination Web application in the Destination Web application list.

  12. In the Destination Site Collection list, click a destination site collection.

  13. In the User Names section, select the Deploy user names check box if you want user names to be included when this path is used for content deployment.

  14. In the Security Information section, in the Security information in the content deployment list, click one of the following:

    • All

    • Roll Definitions Only

    • None

  15. Click OK.