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I recently upgraded a SharePoint 2007 environment to SharePoint 2010 and all appeared to go smoothly.  During validation testing, we noticed that one of the sites was throwing an error (our good friend “An unexpected error has occurred”).  I did some troubleshooting by taking the correlation id on the error page and tracing it to more ...

This is one of those “this is what I did and it worked but don’t necessarily try this at home” posts. Here is the scenario… We had a WSS 2.0 environment that had some data deleted (remember the days of no recycle bin!).  There was no SharePoint backup file and no WSS 2.0 development environment.  Playing the role of MacGyver, I ...

By now, you have probably heard that SP2 for SharePoint 2007 is available (read the details here).  The changes in SP2 cover three main areas: Performance and Availability Improvements Improved Interoperability Getting Ready for SharePoint Server 2010 The release of a new service pack is always a good time to assess your Disaster ...

Recently, we were trying to do an inplace upgrade on a SharePoint Portal Server 2003 portal.  There were a couple of document libraries in the portal that contained a large (thousands) number of documents.  When we ran the upgrade process it failed with a ''Average row size in the docs table too large. Adjust row count from 44445 to ...

I found a very interesting article on Microsoft TechNet (http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/e96a7f61-4287-40f9-b7c0-2763e1fd93841033.mspx?pf=true) on how search is affected by going from SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to MOSS 2007.  It provides details, via a simple table, on how SPS 2003 settings map to MOSS 2007 ...

I was wrong.  I have to admit that 6 months ago I thought that around this time (April-ish) many of my customers that were running SharePoint Portal Server 2003 would be knee deep in a new MOSS environment.  I suspected that by this summer a new wave of companies that had not jumped on the SharePoint bandwagon would finally do so.  ...

Nick Bisciotti did a session at the New England SharePoint User Group meeting this month on upgrading from SPS 2003 to MOSS 2007.  It was a very informative session and Nick included lots of research references in his slides. Those slides are available at: http://www.jornata.com/presentations/moss_upgrade.zip