Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Free Microsoft Office 2010 Book

 

Download the free e-book “First Look: Microsoft Office 2010” from here

http://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_press/archive/2009/12/09/free-e-book-first-look-microsoft-office-2010.aspx

Wednesday, December 02, 2009

The current farm uses database from the following SQL server(s) whose versions are not supported.

 

While upgrading from MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010, you might get the following error-

 

The current farm uses database from the follwoing SQL server(s) whose versions are not supported.


SharePoint requires these SQL server(s) to be upgraded to minimum supported version before you can continue. Refer to the log file of this configuration wizard for more information about the minimum supported SQL versions and download instructions.

 

To fix this you need to install cumulative updates for SQL Server 2008 SP1
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970315

Steps to change Virtual Directory Local Path for a MOSS WebAppications and Central Admin site

 

One of easiest way to move Web Application virtual path is to delete the Web application(only IIS site) from Central Administration and recreate them again using new path. But you cannot move Central Admin site using this approach.

After goggling for sometime, I found this nice article which describes the steps to move SharePoint sites including Central Admin

The link is http://www.mattjimison.com/blog/2009/02/26/how-to-change-the-iis-path-for-a-sharepoint-web-application/\