I was being proactive for once and thought I would do a check of various parts of the system while I had not as many problems to fix. You know, find out what is wrong or not working as well as it should and fixing it before people complain about it. I walked around the
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Category: Rants
Badly Written Software
I have just had another encounter with a piece of software that I manage on our network. I’m not going to name it as I feel that would be unprofessional. Just to set the record straight, I am by no means a fantastic developer, and I admit to ‘bodging’ things every now and then. However,
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SharePoint – The Confession
Just remembered too how stupid I was doing the restore. First time round I had installed SQL Server 2008, and then used the Standalone Server option in the SharePoint setup. That installs SQL 2005 and uses that! Means that wehn you try and restore the databases to your SQL 2008 instance, it will error saying
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SharePoint Backup & Restore
We have upgraded our SharePoint server from Windows Server 2003 32bit to Windows 2008 64bit. This, on the face of it seemed like a reasonably effortless task, requiring some planning, but principly, install new server, install SharePoint, move SharePoint using a backup and a restore, and then re-deploy the Application Templates. All was going well.
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