hi,I am trying to import my site to another location.Export Command completed successfully.While trying to import i am getting the following error. stsadm -o import -url http://abc -filename backupinteractTopLevel.dat -includeusersecurity -haltonwarning -updateversions 1 Start Time: 3/9/2009 4:34:58 PM.Progress: Initializing Import.Progress: Importing User Progress: Importing User Progress: Importing UserProgress: Importing User .............. Progress: Importing Group member 51.Progress: Importing Group member 52.Progress: Importing Group member 53.Progress: Importing Group member 54.Progress: Importing Group member 55.Progress: Importing Group member 57.Progress: Importing Group member 58.Progress: Starting content import.Progress: De-Serializing Objects to Database.Warning: User or group 5 cannot be resolved.FatalError: User or group 5 cannot be resolved. at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.DeploymentLogger.Log(DeploymentLogSeverityseverity, SPDeploymentObject deplObject, String message, Boolean throwException) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.DeploymentLogger.Log(DeploymentLogSeverityseverity, String message) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.ImportObjectManager.ConvertToDestUserId(Int32 userid, Boolean bAllowFallback, Boolean& bIsGroup) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.WebSerializer.DealWithGroupsOnImport(ImportObjectManager objectManager, DictionaryEntry property) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.WebSerializer.SetObjectData(Object obj, SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext context, ISurrogateSelector selector) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.XmlFormatter.ParseObject(Type objectType,Boolean isChildObject) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.XmlFormatter.DeserializeObject(Type objectType, Boolean isChildObject, DeploymentObject envelope) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.XmlFormatter.Deserialize(Stream serializationStream) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.ObjectSerializer.Deserialize(Stream serializationStream) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.ImportObjectManager.ProcessObject(XmlReader xmlReader) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.SPImport.DeserializeObjects() at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.SPImport.Run()Progress: Import Completed.Finish Time: 3/9/2009 4:39:30 PM.Completed with 1 warnings.Completed with 1 errors. User or group 5 cannot be resolved.Any Help for this.Thanks,raji

Hi Raji,are you exporting to another environment then the error probably indicated that you are missing some of the users or that some of the users can't be resolved.Investigate what the group 5 is and try to remove it.You get the error because you are using the -includeusersecurity option.You could look in the "hive12"\logs for more info.Cheers, Daniel Bugday Web: SharePoint Forum Blog: Daniel Bugday's SharePoint Blog

Hi Daniel, thanks so much for the reply.the issue was solvedraji

Hi RajiI believe this blog post is the more precise answer: http://blogs.msdn.com/vijgang/archive/2009/11/30/incremental-content-deployment-completes-with-a-warning-message-user-or-group-with-id-x-cannot-be-resolved.aspxRecently I have been experiencing the same issue and came across that post. In the same search this topic appeared, so.. ;-)RegardsMichael

I had this issue on SharePoint Server 2010 when exporting a list and importing it back to the same machine. The list contained a Person column. What I had to do is to use the -ImportUserSecurity with the Import-SPWeb cmdlet.