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Friday, July 21, 2006 4:18 PM

Migrating MCMS database to MOSS 2007 - Nonexistent User

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. Indeed
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Friday, July 21, 2006 11:06 AM

MOSS setup for MCMS conversion

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) Install SQL 2005
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Tuesday, July 18, 2006 11:23 AM

MSDN Magazin article: New Dev-Centric Features In Office SharePoint Server Keep Your Apps Rolling

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 data Contents Building
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Tuesday, July 18, 2006 10:46 AM

Common Errors and Warnings when migrating a MCMS database to MOSS 2007

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 Error:
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Tuesday, July 18, 2006 10:41 AM

Migrating MCMS database to MOSS 2007 - Nonexistent User

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 my MOSS
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Tuesday, July 18, 2006 10:37 AM

Migrating MCMS database to MOSS 2007 - Deleted Items

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 to MOSS 2007
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Tuesday, July 18, 2006 10:33 AM

Migrating MCMS database to MOSS 2007 - Checked-out template

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 which are checked-out
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Monday, July 17, 2006 5:17 PM

Migrating MCMS database to MOSS 2007 - Host header mapping enabled

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
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Monday, July 17, 2006 3:13 PM

Migrating MCMS database to MOSS 2007 - Deprecated placeholders

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 it only
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Monday, July 17, 2006 9:51 AM

Migrating MCMS database to MOSS 2007 - Duplicate template name

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 are
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Friday, July 14, 2006 4:19 PM

Migrating MCMS database to MOSS 2007 - Leaf names are not unique

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 or more items
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Friday, July 14, 2006 2:27 PM

Migrating MCMS database to MOSS 2007 - 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 errors of this type: Hm... what should be invalid here was my first thought. Maybe the underscore char
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Friday, July 14, 2006 1:38 PM

Migrating MCMS database to MOSS 2007 - Rights group names are not unique.

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 role with
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Friday, July 14, 2006 11:36 AM

Migrating MCMS database to MOSS 2007 - Database is not consistent

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 more
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Friday, July 14, 2006 11:12 AM

MOSS 2007 beta 2 hangs in Export step when using a SQL 2005 database

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
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Thursday, July 13, 2006 2:56 PM

Creating a new Web Application in MOSS 2007

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
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Tuesday, July 11, 2006 4:12 PM

MOSS 2007 fails to create the Config database

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.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException
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Tuesday, July 11, 2006 2:13 PM

Glitch when installing MOSS 2007 beta 2 with WSS 3.0

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
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