If you’re toying around with SharePoint and want to move a site to another location, you might run into what I’ve run into: broken Lookup field links.

SharePoint Server 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 feature 20 server templates you can integrate within your SharePoint infrastructure with the command line utility stsadm.exe.

This command line utility also allows you to move sites. Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) does not have any features to really move sites, and so the advised way to move sites within and over WSS web farms is to use stsadm.exe export and import operations to export a given site, and import it on another location.

For instance, exporting a site from your WSS web farm goes somewhat like this:

stsadm.exe -o export -url http://mysharepoint/site/subsite -filename subsite.bak

Importing this site back into your WSS web farm goes like this:

stsadm.exe -o import -url http://mysharepoint/subsite -filename subsite.bak

You now have moved your subsite to the root site.  Or did you? … →