Today I had to upgrade my MOSS installation to the latest builds as I ran into blocking bug in Beta 2 which prevented me from being able to continue with my MCMS migration. After upgrading I did another analysis step to see if something changed. ...

A couple of users asked me how I setup my system to do the migration of a MCMS database to MOSS 2007. Here are the steps I used: Install Windows Server 2003 SP1 with latest hotfixes Install Windows Workflow Foundation Services (June CTP) ...

This article discusses: Building portal sites with MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 Shared Service Providers, user profiles, and portal search Integration with the BDC and back-end systems Managing Web sites, business intelligence, and enterprise...

In the last couple of days I posted the different errors and warning I received when trying to migrate my MCMS 2002 database to MOSS 2007. Here is a list with all the warnings I received: Error: Database is not consistent Error: Invalid characters...

As discussed earlier I received a long list of warnings and errors when running the premigration check. The next entries in my list are a couple of warnings of this type: All users listed in these events were accounts which are not available on...

As discussed earlier I received a long list of warnings and errors when running the premigration check. Another entry in my list is a warning of this type: Looking at the event details again gives more details: Before running the migration...

As discussed earlier I received a long list of warnings and errors when running the premigration check. The next entries in my list are a couple of warnings of this type: And in the event details: MOSS 2007 is not able to migrate templates...

As discussed earlier I received a long list of warnings and errors when running the premigration check. Another entry in my list is a warning of this type: Host header name to channel name mapping is a nice feature in MCMS to allow root level channels...

As discussed earlier I received a long list of warnings and errors when running the premigration check. The next entries in my list are a couple of warnings of this type: I assume that this warning will only hit a very small set of customers as...

As discussed earlier I received a long list of warnings and errors when running the premigration check. The next entries in my list are a couple of warnings of this type: What is the difference to the previous error message I discussed: "Leaf names...

As discussed earlier I received a long list of warnings and errors when running the premigration check. The next entries in my list are a couple of errors of this type: Here is the more detailed description for this error: Indeed I had two...

As discussed earlier I received a long list of warnings and errors when running the premigration check. The next entries in my list are a couple of errors of this type: Hm... what should be invalid here was my first thought. Maybe the underscore...

As discussed earlier I received a long list of warnings and errors when running the premigration check. The next entry in my list is a warning: This warning irritated me a little bit as it is not possible to create two rights groups in the same...

Before trying to migrate my MCMS database to MOSS 2007 I ran the pre-migration analyze step against my MCMS database. Although I'm running this against a pretty small database (around 300 postings) I got a long list of errors and warning (actually...

While migrating my MCMS 2002 database to MOSS 2007 I experienced a hang situation in the export step. Even after a couple of hours no progress was visible. No CPU was used by any related process and no filesystem activities was visible. Finally I received...

I'm currently preparing a migration of one of my MCMS 2002 databases to MOSS 2007. To achieve this I need to create a new web application that should work as destination for the generated MCMS website. While creating this site using the Create or extend...

On my first attempt the creation of the config database failed with the following exception: Task configdb has failed with an unknown exception Exception: Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException: The language is not supported on the server . ---> System...

I just tried to setup a new box with MOSS 2007. When running the setup program I noticed that I did not get prompted whether I would like to run the basic or the advanced setup. And on the Server Type screen all options except Stand-alone were grayed...