While SharePoint has become tremendously popular precisely because it makes so many laborious tasks so easy, deployment of Web parts can be surprisingly thorny. The trick lies in knowing what STSADM, the command line tool generally used for installing Web parts from a CAB file, is looking for and making sure it's all packaged up properly.
by Robert Bogue
September 27, 2005
his isn't the article that I set out to write. While researching another article (coming soon) I soon realized there just isn't a lot of good material on how to troubleshoot Web part deployment, or even precisely how Web part deployment via STSADM even works. This article is designed to explain the moving parts of the deployment process and describe what can go wrong. Hopefully, it will help a few people get their implementations up and running more smoothly.
Why Deploy with STSADM?
Before getting too deeply involved in fixing STSADM Web part deployments, it's important to understand what STSADM is and why it's a good platform for troubleshooting Web part deployment.
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his isn't the article that I set out to write. While researching another article (coming soon) I soon realized there just isn't a lot of good material on how to troubleshoot Web part deployment, or even precisely how Web part deployment via STSADM even works. This article is designed to explain the moving parts of the deployment process and describe what can go wrong. Hopefully, it will help a few people get their implementations up and running more smoothly.
