I have had the opportunity to use the Bamboo Bulk List importer for a large technology client recently. It is a good tool for the money but doesn’t have a number of features that make life easier. It works well for smaller migrations where full ...[Read More]

I had a client issue a CertReq a couple of weeks ago from a SharePoint 2007 created IIS Virtual Server being used for Staging and when the WebApp was removed, the choice to delete the IIS Virtual Server was chosen though the Content Db was not. ...[Read More]

A client this morning applied the WSS SP1 and the MOSS SP1 to a medium sized farm (2 WFEs, 1 App, Clustered SQL)and failed, so I gotta call. First Ensure the binaries and registry settings were correct on all servers. Ensure which Dbs were upgrade ...[Read More]

I have seen this a number of times using stsadm export import to update production. The most common reason seems to be trying to move layouts, master pages, and content types to production. Please review Andrew Connell's articles on th ...[Read More]

I had a new client the other day setup their first x64 server and didnt install IIS prior to installing .Net 2 and 3 and wasnt able to install SharePoint 2007, with the error that .NET 2 was not installed. The issue is that the IIS Metabase did no ...[Read More]