Monthly Archives: May 2009

How To Recover Your SharePoint 2007 Product ID by Bert Johnson

Posted on May 28, 2009 by Dirk

On my post about the SP2 bug, I had a comment by Bert Johnson about a post of his explaining how to recover the SharePoint 2007 Product ID from your system. This is indeed very handy if you do not … Continue reading →

Posted in MOSS, SharePoint, Tips, Tools | 7 Comments

How to upgrade to SharePoint 2007 SP2 – Step by Step by Chris Givens

Posted on May 28, 2009 by Dirk

I was reading trhough my blogroll today and noticed a very complete blog post for deploying SP2 in a large MOSS environment. It describes optimized steps for installing SP2 with lesser downtime as you would have by just installing it. Chris … Continue reading →

Posted in MOSS, Upgrade, WSS | 1 Comment

Bug in SP2 – product expiration date is improperly activated.

Posted on May 25, 2009 by Dirk

I saw this note on a linkedin post this morning and I immediately checked my calendar to see if it was April 1st today. Guess what, it isn’t….This bug will make SharePoint expire as though it was a trial installation 180 … Continue reading →

Posted in MOSS, SharePoint | 1 Comment

lessons learned in my last sps to moss migration project using gradual approach

Posted on May 10, 2009 by Dirk

I have been doing a fun project for a customer, which asked to have his SharePoint Portal Server 2003 farms upgraded to MOSS 2007 using the gradual upgrade approach. I wanted to share some tips and things to consider when … Continue reading →

Posted in MOSS, Planning, SPS, Upgrade | 2 Comments

Steve Riley: employment ended with Microsoft!

Posted on May 7, 2009 by Dirk

What a shock when I found out about Steve Riley being kicked out of Microsoft as part of a restructuring. If you ever attended Tech Ed conferences, then you must have seen Steve in action. His sessions were and still … Continue reading →

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