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You are moving a customized SharePoint site collection to a new farm. You attach and mount the source content database in the destination farm. You need to ensure that all customizations from the…
The correct answer is A. Install all custom applications in the destination farm. When migrating a SharePoint site collection via database attach, farm-level customizations (solutions, features, web parts) are not stored in the content database and must be separately deployed to the destination farm.
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You are moving a customized SharePoint site collection to a new farm. You attach and mount the source content database in the destination farm. You need to ensure that all customizations from the source farm are available in the destination farm. What should you do?
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- AInstall all custom applications in the destination farm.
- BCopy all custom master pages from the source site collection to the Style Library in the
- CCopy all SharePoint groups and users from the source farm to the destination farm.
- DCopy all custom master pages from the source site collection to the master page gallery
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Why each option
When migrating a SharePoint site collection via database attach, farm-level customizations (solutions, features, web parts) are not stored in the content database and must be separately deployed to the destination farm.
A database attach migration moves only the content database, which holds site content and structure. Any farm-level solutions, features, or custom applications (WSP packages) that were deployed to the source farm do not travel with the database and must be explicitly installed on the destination farm before the mounted database will function correctly.
Master pages stored in the site collection's master page gallery are part of the content database and already migrate with the database attach - copying them to the Style Library is unnecessary and incorrect.
SharePoint groups and user memberships are stored within the content database itself and are automatically carried over during a database attach migration without any manual copying.
Custom master pages in the master page gallery are already included in the content database and move with the attach operation - no separate copy step is required.
Concept tested: SharePoint database attach migration and farm-level customizations
Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/upgrade-and-update/copy-databases-to-the-new-farm-for-upgrade-to-sharepoint-server-2019
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