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I believe firmly that if you are going to *play* in SharePoint, you should play in a sandbox, and ideally, with production *like* data.\u00a0 To accomplish this for clients, I generally provide a ‘sandbox’ site, in addition to their production WSS site.<\/p>\n

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So, for example, if a client had a portal at https:\/\/portal.mycompany.com<\/a>, I’d likely have a ‘sandbox’ for them at http:\/\/sandbox.mycompany.com<\/a>. Then, on request or occasion, I’d *refresh* the sandbox with the latest version of their production site (and I’d also then change the colour theme to something that really stands out – i.e. ugly – so it is clear they are not manipulating their production data).<\/p>\n

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Based on the outline above, this is how the refresh would be handled…<\/p>\n

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   1:<\/span> cd %COMMONPROGRAMFILES%Microsoft sharedWeb server extensions12Bin<\/pre>\n
   2:<\/span>\u00a0 <\/pre>\n
   3:<\/span> REM Back it up...<\/pre>\n
   4:<\/span> stsadm -o backup -url https:\/\/portal.mycompany.com:443 -filename \"D:TOPportal2sandboxswapportalbackup.bak\"<\/span><\/pre>\n
   5:<\/span>\u00a0 <\/pre>\n
   6:<\/span> REM Restore it to sandbox...<\/pre>\n
   7:<\/span> stsadm -o restore -url http:\/\/sandbox.mycompany.com:80 -overwrite -filename \"D:TOPportal2sandboxswapportalbackup.bak\"<\/span><\/pre>\n
   8:<\/span>\u00a0 <\/pre>\n
   9:<\/span> REM Reset IIS 'cause I like to...<\/pre>\n
  10:<\/span> IISRESET<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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