SharePoint® 2010 Administration: Instant Reference

Configure Content Deployment

SharePoint 2010 Content Deployment enables administrators to copy, or propagate, the contents of an entire source site collection into a destination site collection. The first time a deployment is performed, all objects and contents are copied. In subsequent deployments, only the changes are deployed, making it fast and efficient. Content deployment allows organizations to host an editable “staging” site collection, accessible only to content managers, that is separate from the read-only “production” site collection that most users connect to. The source and destination site collections can be in different farms and even in different domains, allowing for propagation of content from a development or testing environment ...