Wednesday 29 September, 2010

SharePoint 2010 Upgrade - SQL 2008 DB attach error

Yes, finally I was ready to move some of my MOSS 2007 SharePoint sites to the SharePOint 2010 test environment after days of playing on the new ground. I choose the Database attach method. As a first step I made sure that I have SP 2 and October 2009 CU on my MOSS 2007 and ran the

stsadm.exe -o preupgradecheck

This step is very important don't skip it. After making sure all components of my MOSS 2007 will get migrated to SP 2010 farm. I detached the database from MOSS 2007 Database server and moved it over to SP 2010 database server, the database server is SQL 2008. Everything was smooth till this point. The moment I tried to attach the MOSS 2007 content database, I received an error  as shown below. I checked my permissions on the database server and found nothing wrong.


Later I realized that this is a bug with SQL management studio and I need to use TSQL to attach the database


USE [master]
GO
CREATE DATABASE [WSS_Content_Databasename] ON
( FILENAME = N'E:\MSSQL\MSSQLSERVER.DB\Data01\WSS_Content_databasename.mdf' ),
( FILENAME = N'E:\MSSQL\MSSQLSERVER.DB\Data01\WSS_Content_databasename_log.LDF' )
 FOR ATTACH
GO
if exists (select name from master.sys.databases sd where name = N'WSS_Content_databasename' and SUSER_SNAME(sd.owner_sid) = SUSER_SNAME() ) EXEC [WSS_Content_databasename].dbo.sp_changedbowner @loginame=N'sa', @map=false
GO

Database attach went through fine after this and I had my first site migrated to SharePoint 2010 :-)

Friday 24 September, 2010

Office Web Apps. Now you can embed Powerpoint or Excel spreadsheet in you blogs/websites/sharepoint site

One of my friend Kiran sent me this  and I thought it is worth sharing.

Microsoft Office Web apps team has released some new features one of the most interesting one being able to embed PowerPoint and Excel spreadsheets into your Sharepoint site/blogs/website. You can read more from here. A very good feature of this is you can update the source location of Spreadsheet/PowerPoint page and Sharepoint/webpage/blog automatically displays the updated file.

Monday 20 September, 2010

Free SharePoint 2010 Training Videos for IT Pros's and Developers


A lot of people ask me for good SharePoint 2010 learning resources, like books videos etc., Here are couple of links I referred myself and are great for SharePoint Developers, IT Pros as well as Users of SharePoint 2010. Hope you find this useful, here we go.

SharePoint 2010 End  User Training Videos at Point8020.com






and did I tell you, you can download all these videos.
 

Tuesday 14 September, 2010

Some cool features you will like on SharePoint 2010

As I started using my new SharePoint 2010 site, there are some cool features I liked and hope every user of SP 2010 will really appreciate these.


The first thing I noticed was the “Getting Started” links on the homepage





You don’t have to go to “Site Settings” to carry out those changes that you wanted to do as soon as you got your new site. Things like changing the site icon, theme are right here. Even the customize quick launch bar comes handy at any time.










The other feature I liked was the Library tools Ribbon that appears on the top of the page the moment you select the small check box on the “Shared Documents” web part




Cool isn't it

Sunday 5 September, 2010

SharePoint 2010 Evaluation Virtual Machine Available for download

Altohugh this is coming a bit late on my blog, I thought it is still a good information to share, lot of my SharePoint frineds wanted to try out SharePoint 2010 right away without going through the hassels of setting up one, and here is the solution I pointed them all to 2010 Information Worker Demonstration and Evaluation Virtual Machine (RTM). I hope this will be useful to my many more SharePoint friends out there!!