Copy SPList in SharePoint 2010

We recently had a requirement after we upgraded some SharePoint 2007 Content Databases to SharePoint 2010 to move some of the content (Lists) into a different site template.

Some of the lists we had to move were:

• Discussions
• Announcements

I decided to use Gary Lapointe’s PowerShell Extensions for SharePoint 2010 which were simple to install and use.

The command we used was Copy-SPList and an example of which is below:

Copy-SPList –sourceList http://sharepoint/sites/web/Lists/Team%20Discussion/AllItems.aspx -targetweb http://sps/sites/test -IncludeUserSecurity

The only thing we did before the copy was ensure that on the target web we were able to create the type of list we were copying over.