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One of the things I’ve been working on recently was trying to get the site directory into a useable state post upgrade. The main issue I needed to address was that the upgrade resulted in duplicate columns for Division and Region.

After running a test upgrade I discovered that one page particular was showing up as un-ghosted (or customized) despite my setting the option to reset all pages to the site definition when I ran the upgrade.

One of the challenges I’m currently trying to solve is related to the site directory. After my upgrade the site directory is a bit messed up (the upgrade seemed to have merged columns).

I created this particular command because I needed to get some additional information about service level timer jobs. If you go to Central Admin -> Operations -> Time Job Definitions (or status) you’ll see all the timer jobs for the farm.

I’m starting to work on getting our Site Directory configured and the first thing I noticed after performing my test upgrade was there were tons of links in the site directory to dead sites.

Last month I created a couple pretty basic commands to help me with setting the navigational elements of my site: gl-enumnavigation and gl-addnavigationnode. You can find information about those commands here: Site Navigation Settings.

I finally figured it out! This was supposed to be one of those very simple tasks that I should have been able to do without any custom code. Turning a sub-site (or web) into a site collection (or top level site) turned out to be the most difficult task I’ve yet to face with SharePoint 2007.

This command was created to fix an issue with our upgraded sites as well as issues I discovered with sites that had been imported to new farms. What happened was that after the upgrade (or an import) the Page Layout URL (page.

I created this only because I needed to debug some issues I’ve been having with Page Layouts – try to convert a sub-site to a site collection and you’ll see what I mean :).

This turned out to be a lot more challenging than I was expecting it to be. Duplicating a content type required that I learn a lot about how to programmatically create things like site columns and workflows associations and policies.