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My setup is as follows: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 installed on Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition.

I am currently trying to migrate page data between servers on different domains.

I have been doing the following:

stsadm -o export -url http://mosswebserver/mysitecollection/wiki -filename c:\spbackups\mysitecollection\wiki\wiki_site.cmp -includeusersecurity -nofilecompression -versions 4

This works with no issues, usually. However, I am now at the point where I need to migrate Wiki pages over, and the location that I need to move my Wiki sites over to is a subsite underneath a Publishing portal site with workflows enabled.

When I go to Site Actions > Create Site, the only option available for creating the site is "Publishing Site with Workflow"...there is no "Blank Site", which is what I normally create when getting ready to import site data over using stsadm.

stsadm -o import -url http://mosswebserver/myNEWsitecollection/wiki  -filename c:\spbackups\mysitecollection\wiki\wiki_site.cmp -includeusersecurity -nofilecompression

Unfortunately, since it only allows me to create a site with the Publishing Site with Workflow, when I try to do an import I end up with the following error message:

Cannot import site. The exported site is based on the template WIKI#0 but the destination site is based on the template BLANKINTERNET#2. You can import sites only into sites that are based on same plate as the exported site.

Does anyone know how to create a blank site underneath a Publishing site collection? I'm unsure of how to do this with stsadm, and have only very limited coding experience for SharePoint (I can create a basic web part to display some text, and allow users to change the text and the color of the text...that's basically it, for now).

Cheers, any help would be appreciated.

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Figured this one out, just forgot to post an answer since I don't receive email notifications from the 'Vault!

To create a new Wiki Site (Site Collection): stsadm -o createsite -url http://myServer/NewWikiSiteCollection -owneremail someone@here.com -ownername "John Doe" -ownerlogin DOM\john.doe -sitetemplate WIKI#0 -description "A new Wiki Site"

To create a new Wiki web (Subsite in Site Collection): stsadm -o createweb -url hxxp://myServer/publishingSiteCollection/newWikiSubSite -sitetemplate WIKI#0 - description "A new Wiki SubSite"

I wasn't able to create it in the GUI, since when creating a new subsite (web) from the Site Settings page wasn't an option (it didn't show that template). And I wasn't able to import correctly, so I used stsadm to create the web with a Wiki Template, and then imported the site successfully.

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