Sharepoint content publishing

One of the key feature in sharepoint is about content publishing, which means it provides you the flexibility to separate authoring and publishing environment.

Then you may ask one question. HOW TO DO IT !!!

It is very simple, just follow the steps below:

On Target
1. Create a new web application in target.
2. Create a empty site, preferably using
stsadm -o createsite -url http://targetSiteUrl/ -ownerlogin yrLogin -owneremail yrEmail
--If you dont use blank site, you are expected to see error
3. Then you should go to central admin --> Operation --> Content Deployment Settings to turn on "Accept incoming content deployment jobs"

On Source
1. Go to central admin --> Operation --> Content Deployment Paths and jobs
2. Create new path
3. Create new job
4. Execute the job

One very important notes !!!
If you have feature deployed on the source, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE IT INSTALL IN TARGET AS WELL before the deployment started.

Some basic readings that you might want to start off before you perform publishing deployment
1. Basic Idea
2. Basic Walkthrough
3. Pre-deployment
4. Best Practice