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Upgrading MOSS 2007 SSP User Profiles and MySite content to SharePoint Server 2010 using DB-Attach method

AMazaheri — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:29:00 GMT

Note: This post is based on Beta 2 and is subject to change in future releases.

I highly recommend to review the Services upgrade model and User Profile Service overview on SP 2010 TechNet site before trying the following steps to upgrade a MOSS 2007 SSP database and My Site content to SharePoint Server 2010.

Upgrading SSP

1. Under Services on Server in Central Admin, make sure both the User Profile Service and the Managed Metadata service are running.

2. Use the “New-SPProfileServiceApplication” cmdlet to create the new user profile service, make sure to use the MOSS 2007 SSP database name you want to upgrade for “ProfileDbName” parameter.

3. At this point SSP database should be upgraded along with two new databases for “Sync” and “Social”.

4. Check the “Upgrade Status” Page and confirm that SSP database upgrade finished successfully.

5. Create a Service Proxy using “New-SPProfileServiceApplicationProxy” cmdlet and pass the ID for the new Profile Service Application provisioned in step 2.

6. Confirm that all user profiles and other settings are imported.

7. From “Manage service application” page, select the upgraded User Profile service application and click “Administrators” icon on the ribbon.

8. Give Search default crawler account “Retrieve People Data for Search Crawlers” permission.

Upgrading My Site host and Personal site collections

1. Run “Test-SPContentDataBase” cmdlet against the 2007 My Site Host content database and resolve the issues as needed.

2. After resolving the issues and installing missing DLLs and Features, run the command again to verify there are no further issues with the content database.

3. Make sure to remove the default content database when you provisioned the web application for My Site host.
4. Run the following stsadm command:
stsadm -o addcontentdb -url http://<yourwebappsURL> -databasename <2007 MySite content database> [-databaseserver <the database server from above>]

5. Make sure Upgrade completed successfully by checking the “Upgrade Status” page.

6. After upgrading the content database, go to Manage Service Applications in Central Administration site and click on the upgraded User Profile Service you want to associate with the My Sites and click on “Setup My Sites” link.

7. Enter “My Site Host” URL and “Personal Site Location”, click on “OK” to save the setting and run the IISRESET.

Make sure that all existing content such as documents are accessible in the upgraded Personal site.

Upgrade and Migration Resource Center for SharePoint Server 2010 (Beta)

AMazaheri — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:08:51 GMT

If you are planning for upgrading your MOSS 2007/WSS 3.0 to upcoming Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010/Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 I definitely encourage you to look at the “Upgrade and Migration Resource Center for SharePoint Server 2010 (Beta)” site.

Service Pack 2 Update

AMazaheri — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:05:00 GMT

The public update for the Service Pack 2 expiration date issue is now available for download.

The update can be applied before or after Service Pack 2 installation. If the update is applied prior to installing Service Pack 2 it will prevent the expiration date from being improperly activated during installation of Service Pack 2, if it is applied after Service Pack 2 it will remove the expiration date incorrectly set during installation of Service Pack 2.

More info here.

Important Information on MOSS 2007 Service Pack 2

AMazaheri — Sat, 23 May 2009 00:14:00 GMT

If you are planning to install MOSS 2007 SP2 or already installed it please read the following important announcement which just posted by SharePoint Team Blog:

Attention: Important Information on Service Pack 2

WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 SP2

AMazaheri — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 03:19:00 GMT

Just a quick note that the SP2 for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 will be available on April 28th 2009! More information can be found here.

Microsoft Certified Master program for SharePoint 2007

AMazaheri — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:31:00 GMT

I just wrapped up an intensive Three week MCM training up in Redmond and wanted to share couple of posts on the program from colleagues who attended the R2 (Beta) for folks who are interested:

As soon as I get a chance I will share my experience as well, also Arpan Shah had a great post on MCM which can be found here.

Update:

I just found out today that I am officially a MCM for SharePoint 2007!

Unable to refresh the external connection via browser when Excel Services running in Trusted Subsystem mode

AMazaheri — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:23:00 GMT

On standalone configuration where ECS (Excel Calculation Services) and Microsoft SQL server reside on same machine, external resources such as tables and cubes should be accessible via Office Data connections (ODC) in Trusted Subsystem mode (Default settings) using SSO authentication (In farm scenarios where ECS resides on a dedicated machine Constraint Kerberos delegation is required for Integrated windows Auth and ECS access mode should be modified from Trusted Subsystem to Delegation via STSADM -o set-ecssecurity command).

In cases that separate accounts are being used for SSP and SSO service/admin/configuration, you will get the following error while trying to refresh a connection:

In order to resolve this issue, I usually create an AD group (e.g. SSOAdmin) and add the SSP and SSO admin accounts as members and set the group as SSO and Application definition administrators in SSO configuration page as follows:

More detail on this issue can be found on Ten Tips for Using SharePoint Server 2007 with Excel Services.

Server Upgrade and Migration Tool for Microsoft Office InfoPath

AMazaheri — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:01:00 GMT

The Server Upgrade and Migration tool allows a SharePoint farm administrator to change hard-coded URLs in InfoPath form templates, UDC files, and content types to ensure that the form templates continue to work correctly in the following circumstances:

When performing a gradual upgrade from Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 to Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or from Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
When migrating InfoPath forms and form templates from one Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or Office SharePoint Server 2007 or Web site collection to another.

And can be downloaded here.

December Cumulative Update for MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 is now available for download!

AMazaheri — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:45:00 GMT

December Cumulative Update for Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is now available for download:

December Cumulative Update for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
December Cumulative Update for Microsoft Office Servers

More information can be found here.

Support for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 withouht SP1 will end on January 13th 2009

AMazaheri — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:03:00 GMT

Per our "Lifecycle Supported Service Packs" link the support for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 without SP1 will end on January 13th 2009 and it is recommended to apply SP1 before the deadline to be in supported state.

Quick Deploy link is disabled even when user is a member of Quick Deploy group and Quick Deploy job is enable for the Content deployment path

AMazaheri — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:29:55 GMT

I was asked by couple of my customers, why the "Quick Deploy" link under Tools on Page Editing toolbar is disabled even though the user is a member of "Quick Deploy Users" group and Quick Deploy job is already enabled for the Content Deployment path:

Solution:

After modifying the change make sure to approve and publish the page
From "Site Actions" menu select "Show Page Editing Toolbar"
"Quick Deploy" option should be enabled under Tools
To verify that the Quick Deploy job is created check the following hidden list: http://[site name]/Quick%20Deploy%20Items/AllItems.aspx

Customizing High Confidence Search Result for People search in MOSS 2007

AMazaheri — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 02:28:00 GMT

OOTB when searching for a person using "PreferredName", "WorkEmail", "UserName" and "AccountName", along with the core search result (Displayed via Search Core Result webpart) person's information is also displayed using "Search High Confidence Results" webpart (Same webpart used for Best bet) as exact match.

By default following properties are included in the high confidence search result:

Title
Skills
Work Email
Work Phone
Department
Office
About Me
Responsibility

Following steps allows administrators to add additional information (e.g. Cell Phone or any custom profile property) to the resultset.

Step 1

From "Metedata Property Mapping" page select and edit any of the available High Confidence Display Properties (HighConfidenceDisplayProperty12-HighConfidenceDisplay15):

And from "Edit Managed Property" page map it to the desired profile property:

Step 2

Run a full crawl on a content source which contains sps3://[Mysite web application url] as one of the entries in start addresses list:

Step 3

On "results.aspx" or "peopleresults.aspx" replace the "Search High Confidence Results" webpart's XSLT with the following:

XML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xmp><xsl:copy-of select="*"/></xmp>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

And make sure that the profile property added in step 1 is included in the resultset:

Note: Make sure to save the original XSLT before applying the above change.

Step 4

Add a reference to the "highconfidencedisplayproperty12" in the original XSLT as follows:

XML

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" >

<xsl:param name="BBLimit">3</xsl:param>

<xsl:param name="DisplayDefinition">True</xsl:param>

<xsl:param name="DisplayDescription">False</xsl:param>

<xsl:param name="DisplayHCDescription">False</xsl:param>

<xsl:param name="DisplayHCImage">True</xsl:param>

<xsl:param name="DisplayHCProps">True</xsl:param>

<xsl:param name="DisplayHCTitle">True</xsl:param>

<xsl:param name="DisplayTerm">True</xsl:param>

<xsl:param name="DisplayTitle">True</xsl:param>

<xsl:param name="DisplayUrl">True</xsl:param>

<xsl:param name="ResultsPerTypeLimit">1</xsl:param>

<xsl:param name="DisplayST">True</xsl:param>

<xsl:param name="DisplayBB">True</xsl:param>

<xsl:param name="DisplayHC">True</xsl:param>

<xsl:param name="ResponsibilityText" />

<xsl:param name="SkillsText" />

<xsl:param name="HighConfTitle" />

<xsl:param name="IsFirstPage">True</xsl:param>

<xsl:param name="BestBetTitle"></xsl:param>

<xsl:template match="All_Results/SpecialTermInformation">

<xsl:variable name="keyword" select="Keyword" />

<xsl:if test="$DisplayST = 'True'" >

<xsl:if test="($DisplayTerm = 'True'and string-length($keyword) > 0) or ($DisplayDefinition = 'True' and string-length(Description) > 0)" >

<xsl:if test="$DisplayTerm = 'True'and string-length($keyword) > 0">

<b>

<xsl:value-of select="$keyword"/>

</b>

</span>

</xsl:if>

<xsl:if test="$DisplayDefinition = 'True'" >

<xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes" select="Description"/>

</xsl:if>

</div>

</xsl:if>

</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="All_Results/BestBetResults/Result">

<xsl:if test="$DisplayBB = 'True'" >

<xsl:if test="position() <= $BBLimit" >

<xsl:variable name="url" select="url"/>

<xsl:variable name="id" select="id" />

<xsl:if test="$DisplayTitle = 'True'" >

<xsl:value-of select="title"/>

</a>

</span>

</xsl:if>

<xsl:if test="$DisplayDescription = 'True' and description[. != '']" >

<xsl:value-of select="description"/>

</div>

</xsl:if>

<xsl:if test="$DisplayUrl = 'True'" >

<xsl:value-of select="$url"/>

</a>

</span>

</xsl:if>

</div>

</xsl:if>

</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="All_Results/HighConfidenceResults/Result">

<xsl:if test="$DisplayHC = 'True' and $IsFirstPage = 'True'" >

<xsl:variable name="prefix">IMNRC('</xsl:variable>

<xsl:variable name="suffix">')</xsl:variable>

<xsl:variable name="url" select="url"/>

<xsl:variable name="id" select="id"/>

<xsl:variable name="pictureurl" select="highconfidenceimageurl"/>

<xsl:variable name="jobtitle" select="highconfidencedisplayproperty1"/>

<xsl:variable name="workphone" select="highconfidencedisplayproperty2"/>

<xsl:variable name="department" select="highconfidencedisplayproperty3"/>

<xsl:variable name="officenumber" select="highconfidencedisplayproperty4"/>

<xsl:variable name="preferredname" select="highconfidencedisplayproperty5"/>

<xsl:variable name="aboutme" select="highconfidencedisplayproperty8"/>

<xsl:variable name="responsibility" select="highconfidencedisplayproperty9"/>

<xsl:variable name="skills" select="highconfidencedisplayproperty10"/>

<xsl:variable name="workemail" select="highconfidencedisplayproperty11"/>

<xsl:variable name="cellphone" select="highconfidencedisplayproperty12"/>

<xsl:value-of select="$HighConfTitle" />

</span>

<tr>

<xsl:if test = "$DisplayHCImage = 'True'">

<tr>

<xsl:variable name="imgid" select="concat('HSR_IMG_',$id)"/>

<xsl:choose>

<xsl:when test = "string-length($pictureurl) > 0">

</xsl:when>

<xsl:otherwise>

</xsl:otherwise>

</xsl:choose>

window.setTimeout("resizeProfileImage('<xsl:value-of select="$imgid"/>')", 1)

</script>

</a>

</td>

</tr>

</table>

</xsl:if>

</td>

<xsl:value-of select="$preferredname"/>

</a>

</span>

<br/>

<xsl:call-template name="DisplayOfficeProfile">

<xsl:with-param name="title" select="$jobtitle" />

<xsl:with-param name="dep" select="$department" />

<xsl:with-param name="phone" select="$workphone" />

<xsl:with-param name="office" select="$officenumber" />

<xsl:with-param name="cell" select="$cellphone" />

</xsl:call-template>

</div>

<xsl:choose>

<xsl:when test="$aboutme[. != '']">

<xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes" select="$aboutme"/>

<br/>

</xsl:when>

</xsl:choose>

<xsl:choose>

<xsl:when test="$responsibility[. != ''] or $skills[. != '']">

<xsl:choose>

<xsl:when test="$responsibility[. != '']">

<xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes" select="$ResponsibilityText"/>

</span>

<xsl:value-of select="translate($responsibility,';',',')"/>

<xsl:text> </xsl:text>

</span>

</xsl:when>

</xsl:choose>

<xsl:choose>

<xsl:when test="$skills[. != '']">

<xsl:if test="$responsibility[. != ''] and $skills[. != '']">

<br/>

</xsl:if>

<xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes" select="$SkillsText"/>

</span>

<xsl:value-of select="translate($skills,';',',')"/>

</span>

</xsl:when>

</xsl:choose>

<br/>

</xsl:when>

<xsl:otherwise><span /></xsl:otherwise>

</xsl:choose>

</div>

</td>

</tr>

</table>

</div>

</xsl:if>

</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="/">

<xsl:call-template name="dvt_1.body"/>

</xsl:template>

<xsl:template name="DisplayOfficeProfile">

<xsl:param name="title" />

<xsl:param name="dep" />

<xsl:param name="phone" />

<xsl:param name="office" />

<xsl:param name="cell" />

<xsl:if test='string-length($title) > 0'>

<xsl:value-of select="$title" />

</xsl:if>

<xsl:if test='string-length($dep) > 0'>

<xsl:value-of select="$dep" />

</xsl:if>

<xsl:if test='string-length($phone) > 0'>

<xsl:value-of select="$phone" />

</xsl:if>

<xsl:if test='string-length($office) > 0'>

<xsl:value-of select="$office" />

</xsl:if>

<xsl:if test='string-length($cell) > 0'>

<xsl:value-of select="$cell" />

</xsl:if>

</span>

<br/>

</xsl:template>

<xsl:template name="dvt_1.body">

<xsl:apply-templates />

</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Replace the customized XSLT with the original version and check in the page to apply the changes.

Patterns and practices for SharePoint is published on MSDN

AMazaheri — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 07:17:00 GMT

This guidance helps architects and developers design, build, test, deploy and upgrade SharePoint intranet applications. A reference implementation that is named the Contoso Training Management application demonstrates solutions to common architectural, development, and application lifecycle management challenges.

This guidance discusses the following:

Architectural decisions about patterns, feature factoring, and packaging.
Design tradeoffs for common decisions many developers encounter, such as when to use SharePoint lists or a database to store information.
Implementation examples that are demonstrated in the Training Management application and in the QuickStarts.
How to design for testability, create unit tests, and run continuous integration.
How to set up different environments including the development, build, test, staging, and production environments.
How to manage the application life cycle through development, test, deployment, and upgrading.
Team-based intranet application development.

check for publisher's certificate revocation slowing down SharePoint

AMazaheri — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 06:32:00 GMT

While working on an engagement deploying a medium farm on Windows 2008 with no internet connection I noticed a considerable performance hit causing by check for publisher's certificate revocation which is on by default.

Basically by having this option set, all managed code go through a cert check against crl.microsoft.com (Certification revocation check) by .net runtime before startup. While disabling this option is not recommended for security reasons, for a development environment with no internet connectivity turning off this check should increase the overall performance.

In order to disable this option simply go to Internet Options and uncheck "Check for publisher's certificate revocation" under advanced tab.

Note:

As an alternative, adding the following line to Hosts file should also resolve the issue (Thanks to my friend Ashkan for the hint):

127.0.0.1 crl.microsoft.com

MOSS 2007 Best Practices articles are now live!

AMazaheri — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:01:00 GMT

Recently I collaborated on a SharePoint Collaboration best practice article which just got published on Technet along with a series of great articles on Operation, Publishing, Search and My Sites:

· Ops: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc850692.aspx

· Pub: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc850698.aspx

· Collab: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc850694.aspx

· Search: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc850696.aspx

· My Sites: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262706.aspx