Maybe last one of those I do, but found a few interesting bits. I used the DB attach method, but 2 things went wrong, sites in the DB were not crawled, and one 10GB site was broken. The solution was to move the good Site Collections to another content DB, they were then crawled. Here are some links on the subject:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262923.aspx
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969242
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc508854.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189035.aspx
Labels: migration
The public beta for SharePoint 2010 is out in 2-3 weeks, so if you don't have the hardware ready already, here's what I did. Although this is not what you'd do in production it is nice and simple.
I bought a Dell Precision 390 on eBay for about €300.
It had no monitor I connected my main monitor to it temporarily when installing everything, then remote desktoped to it after that.
I put 8GB of RAM in it. I bought that on
www.memoryc.com (about another €120). Putting RAM in a machine is easy. Just get the right type, see how many slots are in the server, then put it in and reboot. Note if like me you had XP 32bit to start with, you'll not see the 8GB of RAM until you go to 64bit, which we'll do in two steps.
I then put it on my network here at home. To do that, I just stuck the network cable in the back. Make sure you have internet access, you will need it for updates and prereqs.
Installed Win2008 64bit. To do that, I downloaded the ISO, burned on to a DVD, then put the DVD in the new server, restarted and pressed F8 to boot from DVD. I then installed any updates.
Then I did the SharePoint 2010 basic install, it installed the prereqs for me too.
All was done in an hour or two, very quick and easy, much simpler than MOSS 2007 was.
So even if you don't have the beta yet, get your server ready!
Labels: SharePoint 2010
I will be posting updates from the SharePoint Conference via my twitter page, go have a look!:
http://twitter.com/stephencummins
Definitive article on MOSS 2007 capacity planning, well worth another look since it has been updated:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262787.aspx
SharePoint is frustratingly hard to simplify into one sentence. "It is a collaboration tool" sounds too basic, but this little movie explains it neatly in just over three minutes:
http://www.youtube.com/v/s12Jb5Z2xaE&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6&border=1Labels: SharePoint Help