SharePoint user "does not exist or is not unique" when restoring site
We backed up the site on our development server and restored it to our production server on a different domain.
To clean up all users on the site, we used web.SiteUsers.Remove () for all users on the web root in our dev site. When taking a backup and restoring to the production server using stsadm, we get a "user does not exist or is not unique" error during the restore process, which does not work (in the stsadm -o restore command itself).
Any pointers to a solution to this or what we are doing wrong is appreciated. We are trying to remove users from the site collection before restoring them to production.
Respectfully,
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Perhaps you can use stsadm -o migrateuser
( http://www.toddklindt.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=75 ) or stsadm -o deleteuser
before restoring? You can see the link.
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We have a problem with your issue while installing Reporting Services. In the WSS_Content DB, some tables (.AllLists, .Webs that I can recall) had entries referencing the user in our .UserInfo table that didn’t go out in our domain. It turns out that it was a user on the development domain. Our SQL people had to run through the DB to set these records to the ID (WARNING! DO NOT SUPPORT! SEE UPDATE BELOW!) Of a user that exists on the domain. I would say your site has similar links that MOSS tries to list on import. Here's a link that sets us on the right track:
http://objectmix.com/sharepoint/298701-stsadm-export-user-cannot-found-zone-authentication.html
UPDATE (17APR09): Someone has already sorted out the author's check / reprogram bit without having to manually edit the DB:
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If you're just reaching out to AD users, then this tool called Sharepoint AD Information Sync can help you. Just as its names say the sync function is special.
Otherwise, I would rather close my mouth because I have no experience with backups.