This is a longer post so I’ll be breaking it up into multiple parts. I had an interesting problem occur the other day when working with SharePoint. Im not yet sure of the cause, but will be working to find the cause and hopefully post on my findings.
The Scenario is a migration from SharePoint 2003 to MOSS. Due to the complexity of the migration, we decided to use AvePoint’s DocAve. There is a possibility this is one cause of this issue as I haven’t seen it before. Due to EPC Group’s (my employers) strong partnership with AvePoint, if this is indeed a bug, I will be working with them to get it resolved.
One of the requirements was that all the existing URL’s remain the same with no downtime while performing migrations that took several hours to complete. With this requirement, we created web applications on alternate port numbers to perform the migrations to and then once the migrations were done.
However, once we were done with all the migrations we wanted to turn off the old IIS sites (running on the alternate ports) to preserve resources. However, upon turning off the IIS sites, our “This Site:” and “The List:” search quit working and every other search, All Sites, for instance with the search center were returning the results using the URL for the alternate port number rather than the search results using the URL we were hitting the site from. Needless to say, this caused lost of confusing for users and search results that couldn’t be used, because the URL returned was inactive. Even turning the alternate “port number” URLs back on, still didn’t resolve the problem of our search results displaying the wrong URL.
Through some trial and error we have discovered how to resolve the issue. If you have ever had similar problems stay tuned as I will post our fixes and finds over the next couple days in the next few parts to this post.
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Unfortunately, not really being a developer, I didn’t attend PDC 2008. This also means I wasn’t able to hear first hand about all of the great upcoming new Microsoft software releases. I have however, been able to follow the blogs and news postings of those that are in attendance and learn about the upcoming releases from them. One of the most exciting for me, being the SharePoint guy I am, is finally some more information about SharePoint and Office 14. Here is a great post by Joel about Office 14 – Office 14. In addition, Microsoft has been talking a lot about it’s cloud computing Azure. Finally, a really big deal has also been made about Windows 7. Here is a short list of some of the coolest features of Windows 7. You can always Google (don’t tell Microsoft I said that) PDC 2008 as well and find lots more information about what Microsoft is releasing and working on.
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This past Wednesday, Microsoft announced the scheduled release of the Office Suite Service Pack 2. This includes Service Pack 2 for SharePoint. You can read the official announcement here. For those of you that just want to know the date, it is between February and April of 2009.
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I’m back after way to long of not blogging. I have a few posts to catch up on as well. I was taking a little “vacation” a coupe of weeks ago up in Michigan to get my wisdom teeth removed. It wasn’t a whole lot of fun, but I made it safely through and have recovered nicely.
As soon as I got back from vacation I had to travel to Houston, TX for work and spent the week there. Upon returning home from Houston, my week this week was filled up with some Project Server training. With all the SharePoitn work I’ve been doing, I’ve been getting more and more into Project Server 2007 as well and how it fits into SharePoint. This week I finally decided to get some in depth training on it to help make me even a better consultant. As I do more and more with Project Server don’t be surprised to if Project Server blog posts start showing up on here.
So, now that I’m done with all that, I decided I would take some time and update you on what I’ve been doing as well as get caught up on some overdue blog posts.
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