Use the variationsfixuptool operation

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Applies To: Office SharePoint Server 2007

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Topic Last Modified: 2009-04-30

The Stsadm variationsfixuptool operation lets farm administrators control and perform operations against variations. It allows a farm administrator to:

  • Analyze, report, and fix potential variation problems such as orphaned pages and incomplete variation hierarchies.

  • Force a variation process to complete in a timer job. This is particularly useful in scenarios where a new variation label is created in an existing hierarchy and there are thousands of pages that need to be synchronized with the new label.

  • Investigate and report how many variation jobs are running in a specific site collection.

Note

The variationsfixuptool operation was first introduced in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 with Service Pack 2 (SP2).

Before you perform this procedure, confirm that:

Important

To run the Stsadm command-line tool, you must be a member of the Administrators group on the local computer.

Using the variationsfixuptool operation

Use the following procedure to run the variationsfixuptool operation.

Use the variationsfixuptool operation

  1. On the drive on which SharePoint Products and Technologies is installed, change to the following directory: %COMMONPROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft shared\Web server extensions\12\Bin.

  2. Type the following command, and then press ENTER:

    stsadm -o variationsfixuptool -url <source variation site URL>

    Other parameters you can use include -scan, -recurse, -label, -fix, -spawn, and -showrunningjobs. For more information, see Variationsfixuptool: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server).