Sharepoint deployment packaging (simplest!)

Question

Hi all,

I'm looking for a simplest and effective method of sharepoint deployment? Supposedly, you've a package and you deploy no need to separately move the dependencies. There is a tool SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard but I'm unlucky to get any help from it. It successfully creates a export package but when I import the package on a different machine it doesn't work. I need to deploy a package remotely on a different machine. The utility looks the easiest way of deploy sharepoint package but for me it always end up with an error log:

[1/25/2010 5:31:59 PM]: Start Time: 1/25/2010 5:31:59 PM.
[1/25/2010 5:31:59 PM]: Progress: Initializing Import.
[1/25/2010 5:32:10 PM]: FatalError: Could not find WebTemplate JRIM#75805 with LCID 1033.
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.ImportRequirementsManager.VerifyWebTemplate(SPRequirementObject reqObj)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.ImportRequirementsManager.Validate(SPRequirementObject reqObj)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.ImportRequirementsManager.DeserializeAndValidate()
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.SPImport.VerifyRequirements()
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.SPImport.Run()
[1/25/2010 5:32:15 PM]: Progress: Import Completed.
[1/25/2010 5:32:15 PM]: Finish Time: 1/25/2010 5:32:15 PM.
[1/25/2010 5:32:15 PM]: Completed with 0 warnings.
[1/25/2010 5:32:15 PM]: Completed with 1 errors.

Do you have any idea what is it?

What can be the easiest way to deploy a sharepoint site to another farm? Is there any other tool like SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard? I'm emphasize on easiest because of separate deployment mechanism of web parts which is a awful.

Thanks.

Answer 1

This has nothing to do with the content deployment wizard (nor do you need an expensive tool for this ;), your new server is missing that template: JRIM#75805

You should compare your old and new server for installed add-ons, templates, features, etc. because they will all have to be present on the new server.