Comments on: SharePoint 2003 to MOSS 2007 Upgrade: Database migration

By: Nancy Forbes

Nancy Forbes — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:08:05 +0000

I deleted the full text catalog on the new sharepoint site and now I can create a backup.

By: Nancy Forbes

Nancy Forbes — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:06:47 +0000

The Sort order issue is resolved. on Advanced Settings under List Settings there is a flag for “Allow Management of Content Type”. Change this to Yes

Doing this step on all of our lists and document folders seemed to resolve a lot of issues.

We have another problem though. My database won’t back up. I get transaction log backups but I’m getting this error when I try to do a full backup:

System.Data.SqlClient.SqlError: The backup of full-text catalog ‘ix_STS_48GIDOC1_919767436′ is not permitted because it is not online. Check errorlog file for the reason that full-text catalog became offline and bring it online. Or BACKUP can be performed by using the FILEGROUP or FILE clauses to restrict the selection to include only online data. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo)

48gidoc1 is our old sharepoint server. The SharePoint database on the new server is online and is functioning.

I suspect some pointer didn’t get updated when I restored or renamed SQL objects during the migration process. If you have any ideas how to fix, please let me know.

By: Nancy Forbes

Nancy Forbes — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:02:35 +0000

I migrated one of our Portal’s last night. Mostly things are working pretty well be we have come across one issue. When we edit or enter a new List item the columns (Fields) do not display in the sort order we have defined (Settings – List Settings – column ordering). (Column ordering within a view is working.)

By: Farhan Faiz

Farhan Faiz — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:21:11 +0000

Nizam,

Check the following URL:

http://glorix.blogspot.com/2007/06/upgradingmigrating-story-continues.html

By: Nizam

Nizam — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:54:15 +0000

Hi Farhan,

I have backed up SPS 2003 portal using the upgrade and restore utility. I am trying for an in place upgrade to sharepoint 2007. After the backup finished, I am unable to restore the same portal on a test server since only SITE DB gets created not the PROF and SERV DB’s. If I try your approach without PROF DB then will the user profile info into the 2007 portal be migrated. thanks

By: Farhan Faiz

Farhan Faiz — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:12:13 +0000

Iq,

Do u have any test environment?

By: lq

lq — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:46:51 +0000

Hi, I am asking for help because I have limited support. I never played with sharepoint until I been in the army. I been tasked to migrate Sharepoint 2003 and sql 2000 on a dell poweredge 2850 server to a dell poweredge 2950 server running sharepoint 2007 and sql 2005. I figure that I can install 2007 and 2005 on the new server and attach the sql database to 2005 and copy the sharepoint 2003 folders to 2007 but it appears to be the wrong course of action. i was able to do this fine with adobe connect but this looks like a longer process. please email me at bronxlou on yahoo to help me out. thanks

By: Farhan Faiz

Farhan Faiz — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:55:17 +0000

Jack,

Thanks for comments . Also, changed stsadm deletecontentdb command text.

Regards,

By: Jack

Jack — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:44:02 +0000

Great walkthrough! This gem saved me a lot of time. I’d spent hours upon hours trying to get the Upgrade working. I finally gave up and decided to follow your guide (wish I’d done that from the start).

I only had one issue – step – Reattaching the Database. The command as written would not run, I had to switch around the databasename and url parameters like so -

stsadm.exe -o deletecontentdb -databasename WSS_Content_1234 -url http://servername:1234

Again, many thanks for taking the time to write this up. Now I can enjoy the rest of my weekend!

By: Farhan Faiz

Farhan Faiz — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:47:36 +0000

Gary,

It will move all the site but if you have some customized site definitions, the, you have to move them first.

Regards,