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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