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Revert a SharePoint 2010 site to the WSS3.0/MOSS2007 Look after Visual Upgrade
This question came up in one of my comments recently and I wanted to find out if it was even possible to reveert the look back of a SharePoint 2010 site that has been upgraded from WSS 3.0 or MOSS2007 Thanks to Corey Roth and a comment on his post about...
My upgrade experience to SharePoint Foundation 2010
I thought I'd share with you guys what I had experienced during the upgrade from my WSS 3.0 server to SharePoint Foundation 2010 beta. First of all, my WSS 3.0 is quite small. There's only One site collection in there of any significance en some other...
Posted: 11-24-2009 7:23 by Dirk | with 7 comment(s)
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Update a SharePoint farm with minimal site downtime
It was the time of the year again to do an upgrade of several SharePoint farms for my customer. This upgrade was for installing SP2 and the June cumulative update on an entire farm and the requirement was to avoid too many downtime by the installation...
Posted: 10-19-2009 19:20 by Dirk | with 9 comment(s)
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How to upgrade to SharePoint 2007 SP2 - Step by Step by Chris Givens
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 Givens is...
Posted: 05-28-2009 22:13 by Dirk | with 1 comment(s)
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lessons learned in my last sps to moss migration project using gradual approach
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 you are facing such a project...
Posted: 05-10-2009 5:37 by Dirk | with 2 comment(s)
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SPS2003 Add Link to Site not working
Why might this be relevant to a MOSS admin. Well, you might be busy upgarding a SharePoint Portal Server 2003 environment to MOSS using the gradual approach, like I am. Off course you would test thjis on a test farm and reproduce your production environment...
Posted: 03-13-2009 3:16 by Dirk | with no comments
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Step-by-Step – A REAL world upgrade of a SharePoint Portal Server 2003 (SPS) farm to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) by Cornelius J van Dyk
Looking for some more information about the gradual upgrade from SPS 2003 to MOSS 2007 I stumbled upon this monster step-by-step guide of Cornelius J van Dyk, a Microsoft MVP in SharePoint. If you are starting an upgrade project, then be sure to go through...
Posted: 11-20-2008 7:38 by Dirk | with no comments
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