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Friday, May 01, 2009 9:59 AM

Red is Green, Up is Down and the Unsupported suddenly becomes Supported!

As I discussed in an earlier article backup/restore between farms for publishing sites was unsupported due to the fact that MOSS often stores absolute URLs to the Page Layout in the properties of a Publishing Page. Workarounds had to be used to adjust
Posted by Stefan_Gossner | 12 Comments
Thursday, March 26, 2009 3:05 PM

Databases can become corrupted when using STSADM -o MergeContentDB

An important KB article has been released today discussing a problem in WSS which can lead to database inconsistencies when using STSADM -o MergeContentDB. It is highly recommended to backup as well the source and the destination databases before performing
Posted by Stefan_Gossner | 0 Comments
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 6:38 PM

Common error situation when using backup/restore to transfer a database to a new farm on MOSS 2007

In the past I have seen the following problem a couple of times: a customer creates a backup of a content database on one server farm (e.g. using STSADM -o backup or a DB backup in SQL) and restores the backup on a different farm and attaches the content
Posted by Stefan_Gossner | 45 Comments
 
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