Category Archives: Upgrade

Cumulative updates packaging changed for SharePoint 2010

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Dirk

while browsing the updates page on Technet I found: The packaging of cumulative updates changed as of August 31, 2011. The following packages are provided for cumulative updates: • SharePoint Foundation 2010 • SharePoint Foundation 2010 + SharePoint Server 2010 … Continue reading →

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SharePoint 2010 gradual upgrade approach using ISA server

Posted on October 13, 2010 by Dirk

Now first a little remark about this post: This post will not handle the actual upgrade from MOSS 2007 to SP2010. It will only provide a possible method to use when you are considering to gradually upgrade specific web applications, … Continue reading →

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Revert a SharePoint 2010 site to the WSS3.0/MOSS2007 Look after Visual Upgrade

Posted on December 4, 2009 by Dirk

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 … Continue reading →

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My upgrade experience to SharePoint Foundation 2010

Posted on November 24, 2009 by Dirk

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 … Continue reading →

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Update a SharePoint farm with minimal site downtime

Posted on October 19, 2009 by Dirk

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 … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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 →

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SPS2003 Add Link to Site not working

Posted on March 13, 2009 by Dirk

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 … Continue reading →

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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

Posted on November 20, 2008 by Dirk

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 … Continue reading →

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