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Tuesday, November 06, 2007 3:17 PM

Upgrade Customization Articles Posted

The deepest most comprehensive content on upgrading customizations is now available. The best minds on upgrade were put together to pull this off. This paper is based on a project I drove though Aeshen. From Bill Baer (MS IT), Sean Livingston (upgrade
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Wednesday, July 18, 2007 10:31 PM

Upgrade Performance and Time to Upgrade

Performance and time to upgrade depends on a number of things. WSS and SharePoint Server provide multiple methods to upgrade , each have trade offs as well as differences in performance. MS IT included their numbers on upgrade performance which help one
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Friday, June 29, 2007 2:41 AM

SharePoint Groups, Permissions, Site Security, and Depreciated Site Groups

I had an email from one of Ted Pattison's students on "security in SharePoint." When I first started reading it, I expected to have some question about server hardening or firewalls, but the question was about permissions. It's been so long that security
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007 7:38 PM

File Name, Length, Size and Invalid Character Restrictions and Recommendations

Something that often comes up in deployments and migrations is what is allowed? What characters are supported. Rather than saying what's supported, it's a lot easier to say what is blocked and what is not allowed. Going from a desktop, file share or public
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007 6:25 PM

MS IT SharePoint GotDotNet tools republished

Working with Bill Baer, I've republished to our Codeplex governance workspace , the GotDotNet tools that MS IT had published These tools include the MS IT Recycle bin for WSS 2.0 and SPS 2003 written by an IT dev team (spec'ed by myself and Andre Heyman
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Saturday, June 02, 2007 12:51 AM

MSIT Site Life Cycle Managment tool beta 1 release and TechEd Goodies

I just uploaded the code for the Microsoft IT Team Site Life Cycle Management tool . Bill Baer worked overtime to get me the code on this one. Thanks Bill! If you're concerned about sites being unused, taking up disk space and interfering with search
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Wednesday, May 30, 2007 11:35 PM

WSS 2.0 to WSS 3.0 Farm Host Header Upgrade FYI

Just got off the phone with Sean Livingston and we had a quick discussion about host header upgrade and an issue to which some customers have contacted product support. I've seen this before in IT. I know there aren't too many host header deployments
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Tuesday, May 22, 2007 10:59 PM

3 Methods to Upgrade? Let me give you 4 More...

If you've followed my upgrade blog posts, you'll see a few posts on upgrade and the 3 methods are documented on TechNet and listed from the new TechNet Upgrade and Migration Center and ship out of the box. My recent experience tells me there are more
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Monday, May 07, 2007 4:37 AM

To Unghost or To Not Unghost, That Is the Question!

Before you dismiss this as a dev topic. Let me tell you why you should care about this as an upgrade topic and a manageability and governance topic. Your policies around customization may have the biggest impact to how difficult it is to upgrade, maybe
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Tuesday, May 01, 2007 8:54 PM

Your Friend Prescan.exe - How to Get it & What it Does - Part 2

Between Shane's prescan post (view comments for more details) , Bill's prescan wisdom and a few of my own , there are a few good posts on prescan.exe. I tried to do some digging today to address a question on got on my recent prescan post (part1) about
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Monday, April 30, 2007 9:50 PM

5 Reasons NOT to Use In Place Upgrade

I know you'll see documentation recommending in place as an upgrade for the non customized environment or the upgrade for the small environment. This list is to convince you to not make that decision. These reasons apply on upgrades from WSS 2.0 to WSS
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Friday, April 13, 2007 7:03 PM

Don't be afraid of Prescan - Part 1

Prescan is your friend. Without prescan you *WILL* fail your upgrade from WSS 2.0 or SPS 2003 upgrade attempts, even if you plan to simply run setup to perform an upgrade. One of the most common mistakes in fact is people that take an environment and
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Monday, April 02, 2007 7:12 PM

Host Header Upgrade Database Detach Issue

Did you create your WSS farm with the -hh option in WSS 2.0 now trying to upgrade? (not the default configuration) If so, this KB will help you understand a common issue with database attach upgrades in relation to host header WSS deployments. First be
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Saturday, March 17, 2007 12:00 AM

Areas, Bucketwebs, Upgrade and Redirects

Many of you are excited to know that bucketwebs are going away. WooHoo! No more http://portal/c4/c15/market%plan or /c15 whatever. A customer recently was worried about conflicts that would occur when the bucketwebs were flattened to their structure.
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Wednesday, January 03, 2007 11:53 PM

Resources and Recommendations for Upgrading Site Definitions and Site Templates

This topic has come up more times than I can count. This is one of those sticky topics that IT Pros seem to have a hard time with. See the TechNet reference for how to handle customizations and you can see that it can't be handled at that layer for most
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