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Unanswered How To- Move Content from old 2010 farm to new 2010 farm in-use without triggering Alerts (and without stopping SMTP)

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      Sunday, February 12, 2012 10:17 PM
       
       
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      We are moving content from an Old-2010-Farm to a New-2010-Farm, and are worried about re-transmitting the same Alerts a second time.

      In the Old-2010-Farm, SharePoint has already sent out numerous Alerts.

      The New-2010-Farm is active and already sending SharePoint 2010 Alerts. We want to move Content (i.e.) some Content Databases, some Site Collections, and some Sites/Lists/Libraries, all with Alerts on the Old-2010-Farm into the New-2010-Farm. 

      Our FIRST concern is that once the Content goes-live on the New-2010-Farm, it will duplicate and re-send thousands of Alerts. Very Undesirable!

      Normally, we would stop the SMTP service. However, the New-2010-Farm already has other Content sending Alerts. Consequently, we cannot stop the SMTP service.

      So, how do we prevent those thousands of duplicate Alerts from being re-transmitted, when the Content is moved from the Old-2010-Farm to the New-2020-Farm???

      -mrkc

       

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    • Monday, February 13, 2012 2:04 AM
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      Hi,

      According to your requirement, firstly you can disable alert function on the new farm instead SMTP service, then migrate the content from old farm to the new one, after finishing migration, then enable alert function on the content.

      There are many ways you can use to disable alert, check out the following link for the detailed information:

      http://brandonatkinson.blogspot.com/2010/06/disabling-alerts-in-sharepoint-2010.html

      Thanks,

      Rock Wang

      Rock Wang TechNet Community Support


       
    • Monday, February 13, 2012 11:07 PM
       
       
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      Thanks.

      I checked the reference you provided. I understand you to suggest the following process:

      1. Go to Central Admin -> Application Management -> Manage Web Applications -> General Settings.  From there turn Alerts "OFF" at the Web App.

      2. Move the Content from the Old-2010-SP-Farm to the New-2010-SP-Farm.

      3. Repeat step 1, but turn alerts "ON".

      Well, isn't this the same problem we want to avoid? 

      We wanted to avoid turning OFF all Alerts by turning OFF the SMTP Service.

      This sounds like turning OFF all Alerts by turning OFF the Web App Alert Service. Same problem as STOPPING SMTP, just moving the Scope to the Web App.  Yes?

      -mrkc