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Darwin_Goh
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Dec 18, 2018

Migration of SharePoint site with SharePoint Hosted Add-ins (SharePoint 2016)

Hi,   I have been developing a SharePoint Hosted Add-ins in the Development environment and everything has been tested to be working. However, when we are migrating the SharePoint Site collection f...
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jcgonzalezmartin
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Dec 18, 2018

To me it sounds you are doing in the right way, but doing a backup & restore of an Add-in is something I have not seen...adding Trevor Seward to the conversation

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    Darwin_Goh
    Copper Contributor
    Dec 18, 2018

    Hi Carlos,

     

    This is what i found so far as well. I have also check the ULS logs and there are no error log in there as well. 

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      Trevor Seward
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      Dec 19, 2018
      In general you shouldn't do a backup/restore this way for Addins. Instead, remove the Addin and re-add it to the site.
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        Darwin_Goh
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        Dec 20, 2018
        Hi Trevor,

        So if we need to remove the add-ins before performing the backup and restore, all the app part which has been added into the sharepoint pages will be remove as well?

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