As discussed earlier I received a long list of warnings and errors when running the premigration check. The next entries in my list are a couple of warnings of this type: And in the event details: MOSS 2007 is not able to migrate templates which are checked-out by a template designer. You need to check […]

As discussed earlier I received a long list of warnings and errors when running the premigration check. Another entry in my list is a warning of this type: Host header name to channel name mapping is a nice feature in MCMS to allow root level channels to be mapped to the root of a web […]

As discussed earlier I received a long list of warnings and errors when running the premigration check. The next entries in my list are a couple of warnings of this type: I assume that this warning will only hit a very small set of customers as it only affects customers who have implemented custom placeholder […]

As discussed earlier I received a long list of warnings and errors when running the premigration check. The next entries in my list are a couple of warnings of this type: What is the difference to the previous error message I discussed: “Leaf names are not unique”? To get a better picture I opened the […]

As discussed earlier I received a long list of warnings and errors when running the premigration check. The next entries in my list are a couple of errors of this type: Here is the more detailed description for this error: Indeed I had two or more items with identical names in those channels which is […]

As discussed earlier I received a long list of warnings and errors when running the premigration check. The next entries in my list are a couple of errors of this type: Hm… what should be invalid here was my first thought. Maybe the underscore char at the beginning of the channel name? That is a […]

As discussed earlier I received a long list of warnings and errors when running the premigration check. The next entry in my list is a warning: This warning irritated me a little bit as it is not possible to create two rights groups in the same role with the same name. So I looked at […]

Before trying to migrate my MCMS database to MOSS 2007 I ran the pre-migration analyze step against my MCMS database. Although I’m running this against a pretty small database (around 300 postings) I got a long list of errors and warning (actually more than 100). The first error in the list alerted me: I fixed […]

While migrating my MCMS 2002 database to MOSS 2007 I experienced a hang situation in the export step. Even after a couple of hours no progress was visible. No CPU was used by any related process and no filesystem activities was visible. Finally I received a note from the product team that this is a […]

I’m currently preparing a migration of one of my MCMS 2002 databases to MOSS 2007. To achieve this I need to create a new web application that should work as destination for the generated MCMS website. While creating this site using the Create or extend Web application option I experienced a strange behavior: everything went […]

On my first attempt the creation of the config database failed with the following exception: Task configdb has failed with an unknown exception Exception: Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException: The language is not supported on the server. —> System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x8102005E): The language is not supported on the server.   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequestInternalClass.CreateSite(Guid gApplicationId, String bstrUrl, Int32 lZone, Guid gSiteId, Guid gDatabaseId, […]

I just tried to setup a new box with MOSS 2007. When running the setup program I noticed that I did not get prompted whether I would like to run the basic or the advanced setup. And on the Server Type screen all options except Stand-alone were grayed out: This was pretty anoying as my […]