I wanted to post an open question out to the community on how the rest of you are handling this.
In previous versions of SharePoint if you create a Site collection on an Enterprise edition farm and then attempted to deploy that to a Standard edition farm it was painful (content database migration in most cases). Even if you had not used any enterprise features, the site was still stamped with enterprise guids and this cause problems.
In our case as an organization that needs to work with many different clients, we create multiple integration servers (one enterprise and one Standard). We then did the design, development and Information architecture, etc on the correct version and then bypassed any conflict.
In SharePoint 2013, MSDN does not provide a Standard key, only an Enterprise key. I do know that volume licensing does have different keys (we have a client that only had a standard key). This creates a dilema, if I only have a MSDN enterprise farm available, how do I efficiently do a content database migration to at Standard farm.
I have some thoughts on how I may accomplish this, but I wanted to see if anyone else already has a process for this that they would care to share.
Thanks,
I know this post is really very old, but I saw it still sitting out here and just in case someone comes across it, I felt I should update it.
I did check MSDN last week and saw that there is now a Standard and Enterprise Key.
hey i need help for same …..i am beginner and my pm has assigned to search for issues for same deployment configuration ….dude pls help
I can verify that as of yesterday, there is not Standard key posted on MSDN.
In the past even if the features are not activated, they are still “installed” and thus referenced. Unless they changed that in 2013 (which I think would be a pretty big architecture change) it is still going to be a problem. I hope to confirm, but I need to do a couple of SP installs.
Thanks
Hey Eric,
Very good scenario, didn’t think at that before. Â My MSDN license expired june 1st :(:( , so I cannot check, however if anyone could look in their MSDN see if they got a Standard license it would be really nice.Â
Maybe if you don’t activate the Enterprise Site Collection Features?