I’ve never been a big fan of SharePoint, but it had become obvious that installing WSS 3.0 would allow me to get a very functional document library and knowledge base online for internal users in a very short time frame. I recently heard that the second rule of the Army is, “If it’s stupid but [...]

What do you do when you redevelop a website using a different coding language and you have a significant amount of links to your site that reference the old home page? I recently upgraded a website to ASP.Net. The old site was not only popular (20-25K hits a month), it had been in existence for eight [...]

Background We are running Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 as both an intranet and a document library for a reasonably small (less than 1000 seats) user base. We use a two-server set up with one for the front-end and another for the databases. For various reasons, we transferred the web front-end to a new server. The transfer was [...]

The Problem I needed to migrate a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS 3.0) front-end application from one server to another. Issues Attempts to install another just another front-end failed, giving us a “Failed to connect to the configuration database” error. The Central Administration (CA) site will need to be moved as well. Need to minimize any down time to users. The [...]

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