I have a running SharePoint 2010 application running and I would like to extract the WSP so I can deploy that application in another server. I have no custom components yet so I'm not yet under Visual Studio. Is it possible to extract the WSP for the web app from central administration?
Many thanks
Yes it is possible to extract the wsp from the CA using the Power shell command.
Please take a look at this
To take single wsp backup use this
$farm = Get-SPFarm
$file = $farm.Solutions.Item(“JDSU.OneStop.wsp”).SolutionFile
$file.SaveAs(“c:\temp\JDSU.OneStop.wsp”)
To take multiple wsp backup use this powershell command
Start-Transcript "c:\wsp\transcript.txt"
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.SharePoint")
$solutions = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPFarm]::Local.Solutions;
foreach ($solution in $solutions) {
$solution.SolutionFile.SaveAs("c:\wsp\" + $solution.Name);
}
Stop-Transcript
Hope this helps