{"id":51,"date":"2008-10-14T02:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T02:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brainlitter.itgroove.net\/2008\/10\/14\/sharepoint-designer-restore-from-moss-to-wss-could-not-find-feature-error-resolution\/"},"modified":"2008-10-14T02:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T02:31:00","slug":"sharepoint-designer-restore-from-moss-to-wss-could-not-find-feature-error-resolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regroove.ca\/brainlitter\/2008\/10\/14\/sharepoint-designer-restore-from-moss-to-wss-could-not-find-feature-error-resolution\/","title":{"rendered":"SharePoint Designer Restore from MOSS to WSS (could not find feature error resolution)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ExternalClass782D8AF3B7F14590AB3D152A6209517C\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While attempting to perform a SharePoint Sub-site restore, using SharePoint Designer 2007, from a nested MOSS installation (<a>https:\/\/portal.company.com\/projects\/supersaucesite<\/a>) to a dedicated WSS site (root collection), I ran into the following error.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>Error occurred while importing the web <\/strong><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/xxxxxx\/\"><em><strong>http:\/\/xxxxxx<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><strong>.\u00a0 Could not find Feature DataConnectionLibrary<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/brainlitterarchive\/Media\/WindowsLiveWriter\/SharePointDesignerRestorefromMOSStoWSSco_112E9\/image_2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right:0px;border-top:0px;border-left:0px;border-bottom:0px\" height=\"128\" alt=\"image\" src=\"\/brainlitterarchive\/Media\/WindowsLiveWriter\/SharePointDesignerRestorefromMOSStoWSSco_112E9\/image_thumb.png\" width=\"435\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The problem is, the source site had MOSS 2007 which has the &#8216;DataConnectionLibrary&#8217; feature (and one not exposed via the Site Settings that I could simply deactivate), and the destination server (running WSS 3.0) did not.\u00a0 While there are several ways to skin this cat, this is the approach I took first and worked a charm (still working in SharePoint Designer, except for having to deactivate a feature in the subsite I was backing up from using the STSADM tool).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Here&#8217;s what I did to succeed<\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>I connected to the console of the MOSS Server, and performed the following using the STSADM command (to disable the feature in the original site, as I wasn&#8217;t even using it):<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div style=\"border-right:gray 1px solid;padding-right:4px;border-top:gray 1px solid;padding-left:4px;font-size:8pt;padding-bottom:4px;margin:20px 0px 10px;overflow:auto;border-left:gray 1px solid;width:87.47%;cursor:text;line-height:12pt;padding-top:4px;border-bottom:gray 1px solid;font-family:consolas, 'Courier New', courier, monospace;height:62px;background-color:#f4f4f4\">\n<div style=\"padding-right:0px;padding-left:0px;font-size:8pt;padding-bottom:0px;overflow:visible;width:100%;color:black;border-top-style:none;line-height:12pt;padding-top:0px;font-family:consolas, 'Courier New', courier, monospace;border-right-style:none;border-left-style:none;background-color:#f4f4f4;border-bottom-style:none\">\n<pre style=\"padding-right:0px;padding-left:0px;font-size:8pt;padding-bottom:0px;margin:0em;overflow:visible;width:100%;color:black;border-top-style:none;line-height:12pt;padding-top:0px;font-family:consolas, 'Courier New', courier, monospace;border-right-style:none;border-left-style:none;background-color:white;border-bottom-style:none\">stsadm -o deactivatefeature -name DataConnectionLibrary -url <a href=\"https:\/\/portal.company.com\/projects\/supersaucesite\">https:\/\/portal.company.com\/projects\/supersaucesite<\/a> -force<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>STSADM returned &#8220;<em>Operation completed successfully<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I then attempted my SharePoint Designer backup again, from the source site (<a href=\"https:\/\/portal.company.com\/projects\/supersaucesite\">https:\/\/portal.company.com\/projects\/supersaucesite<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/brainlitterarchive\/Media\/WindowsLiveWriter\/SharePointDesignerRestorefromMOSStoWSSco_112E9\/image_4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right:0px;border-top:0px;border-left:0px;border-bottom:0px\" height=\"389\" alt=\"image\" src=\"\/brainlitterarchive\/Media\/WindowsLiveWriter\/SharePointDesignerRestorefromMOSStoWSSco_112E9\/image_thumb_1.png\" width=\"620\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And it went fine&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/brainlitterarchive\/Media\/WindowsLiveWriter\/SharePointDesignerRestorefromMOSStoWSSco_112E9\/image_6.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right:0px;border-top:0px;border-left:0px;border-bottom:0px\" height=\"93\" alt=\"image\" src=\"\/brainlitterarchive\/Media\/WindowsLiveWriter\/SharePointDesignerRestorefromMOSStoWSSco_112E9\/image_thumb_2.png\" width=\"244\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Then I did my restore&#8230; (choosing, like the backup above, Sites, Administration, Restore Web Site&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/brainlitterarchive\/Media\/WindowsLiveWriter\/SharePointDesignerRestorefromMOSStoWSSco_112E9\/image_8.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right:0px;border-top:0px;border-left:0px;border-bottom:0px\" height=\"276\" alt=\"image\" src=\"\/brainlitterarchive\/Media\/WindowsLiveWriter\/SharePointDesignerRestorefromMOSStoWSSco_112E9\/image_thumb_3.png\" width=\"361\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/brainlitterarchive\/Media\/WindowsLiveWriter\/SharePointDesignerRestorefromMOSStoWSSco_112E9\/image_10.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right:0px;border-top:0px;border-left:0px;border-bottom:0px\" height=\"88\" alt=\"image\" src=\"\/brainlitterarchive\/Media\/WindowsLiveWriter\/SharePointDesignerRestorefromMOSStoWSSco_112E9\/image_thumb_4.png\" width=\"406\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And Voila! 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