Struggling to migrate sharepoint sites developed on dev or qa over to production

I would argue that user1 shouldn't have needed to use the dev environment at all.

also, if you look around at best practices, dev environments should be created FOR EACH DEVELOPER to avoid these types of issues. SharePoint does NOT make a happy multiple concurrent developer environment

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Scott Brickey

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