Another colleague of mine has started his blog on https://moss2007.be. And don’t be fooled by the host name, it’s for posts on SharePoint 2010 as well !!
Find them here and add them to your feed readers :)
Tom Van Rousselt: https://moss2007.be/blogs/tomvr
Sebastian Bouckaert: https://moss2007.be/blogs/sebastian
…And for me ? Well I’m still enjoying my new born and some paternity leave :) Will be blogging in the near future again, once my life settles a bit.
I’m wrapping up a SharePoint 2007 to 2010 migration with custom development including programmatically copying files and folders, custom Event Receivers, Web Parts, etc.
Since the new setup uses a new AD domain, user accounts were mapped to new accounts and migrated using stsadm –o migrateuser.
After this we noticed errors like “User cannot be found”.
A bit of investigation showed that the ‘migrateuser’ operation didn’t update SPFile.Author or SPFile.ModifiedBy and querying those properties would throw the above exception.
A look at the ItemXml confirmed this:
ows_Modified_x0020_By="OLDDOMAIN\olduser" ows_Created_x0020_By="OLDDOMAIN\olduser" ows_File_x0020_Type="pdf" ows_ID="3" ows_Created="2010-06-28 15:20:48" ows_Author="133;#New User" ows_Modified="2010-09-07 18:41:07" ows_Editor=";#System Account" ows_File_x0020_Size="3;#1035567" ... />
Workaround
I didn’t want to script an update to all files (because that would trigger Event Receivers) so I avoided querying those properties directly and instead created an extension method to get those values through the SPListItem:
SPFieldUserValue fuv = new SPFieldUserValue(item.Web, (String)item["Author"]);
return fuv.User;
Scripting an update
There were a lot of Event Receivers in the custom solution so I didn’t take this path, mainly because I noticed in SharePoint 2010 the SPListItem.SystemUpdate() method will also trigger Event Receivers. Here’s a blog post on it:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mjsabby/archive/2010/01/24/disabling-events-in-sharepoint-2007-and-sharepoint-2010.aspx
This is different from SharePoint 2007 as far as I recall. Feel free to comment on this.
Other mentions
This blog post by Keith Richie mentions a solution for SPWeb.Author: http://blog.krichie.com/2008/09/12/resetting-the-author-on-a-sharepoint-site-or-wherefore-art-thou-author-redux/
Be sure to take this into consideration !