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  • WSS v3 to MOSS 2007 Upgrade "Fun"

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    A few days ago I was allowed to participate in the fun of upgrading from the Windows SharePoint Services version 3 platform to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard Edition during an overnight weekend time period so as to limit the exposure of any problems that could crop up during operational hours.  This should be…

  • Developing Migration Methodologies

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    Something that always seems to strike me as somewhat interesting is when I find colleagues, co-workers and fellow engineers not really thinking through the entire process of migrating from one SharePoint services based platform to another. I tend to cringe when I hear Microsoft salesman talk about the extensibility and the modularity of SharePoint 2007…

  • Troubleshooting Tip of the Day… Network Configuration – Wrong Gateway

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    For those of you that have ever setup a server with two NICs, you probably know that it’s usually best to either a) team the NICs to have greater performance, or b) have them on completely separate LANs and only have one that is registered in DNS with the domain name that you are hosting…

  • Things not to do when figuring MOSS out…

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    So I decided that it wouldn’t be a bad idea to really get at the guts of MOSS and figure out just how PSConfig works and what the different application pools are useful for. So the first lesson learned of the day is that the web application for Office Server really should never be toyed…

  • 70-630… and check…

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    So after inadvertently forgetting to move the 70-630 exam so that I might be able to get some study time in, I decided to suck it up and go take the exam at the time I’d originally scheduled it for… The exam went by pretty quickly as I completed it in about 35 minutes –…

  • 70-631… check

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    So this morning on a whim I decided to test out my skills and took 70-631 at a local testing center. About 45 minutes later I was walking out with a smirk on my face thinking “Oh yeah”. Needless to say, it was a nice accomplishment after not having studied (and no I didn’t stay…

  • WSSv2: Photo Library Pet Peeve

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    I give Microsoft credit for having developed a highly usable framework for the Windows SharePoint Services v2 platform, however I do have to say that they left a lot of room for improvement between v2 and the newly released v3 (which is highly improved in many aspects). For those who have not yet upgraded, I…