SharePoint 2010 Upgrade

Hi.
While doing a Upgrade from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010 a few issues i came across.

Issue1:
When i did the backup of the 2007 environment it was in a read-only state ... i then proceeded to restore this DB to the new server and then upgrade the DB.  all went along fine until i wanted to do the Visual Upgrade and the options were grayed out?
Solution: i went back to the 2007 environment and switched it off read-only mode did the backup and restored that backup ..and PRESTO ..the options were there ....

Issue2:
I had a lot of health issues with regard to the clean install.  you can either go and disable the rules like this  or you can work thru each one.  most of then had a "Fix Automatically" which you should do and SharePoint tries to resolve it.

Issue3: the farm account needed "Replicated Directory Changes Permissions" in AD.  Solution: just give it permissions by following the article.

Issue 4: when a people search was done the url that it linked too ould not resolve ...
when i had setup mySite i provided it with a path that it should use but ALAS!!! ...it doesnt do this. Solution: you would need to run crawl on the content sources and make sure the crawl account used has access to the Service "User Profile Service Application".

Issue 5: when completing the final step and moving users into the SharePoint ... please make sure that the users exist in the new Domain .....
so now i have a sucessful Upgrade from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010  complete with MySites and public profiles .......DONE!!!!!!!!!1

Just a side note ...the hardest part was getting the User Profile Synchronization job to work.
a very exciting project which i really enjoyed ...

Till the next issue/problem
Bradley

Remove the !NEW icon to newly added List Items - SharePoint 2010

I have a client that wants the New! icon to not be shown for newly created list items ....
i tried to look for a powershell script but ALAS .... back to old faithful  :)
So it was simple
just open a powershell window and type this
stsadm -o setproperty -pn days-to-show-new-icon -pv "VALUE" -url http://sitecollection/
where the  "VALUE" is the number to either extend as in 1 ...2 .. days or 0 to not show it at all.

here is the MSDN link
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;825510&Product=spts

Regards
Bradley Chetty

Sharepoint 2010 Expanded views just shows "Loading" ....

Just came accross this issue on a SharePoint 2010 implementation.
Set the scenario: basic team site with view of document libraries which are categorised by fields....

Problem Statement:

If a few views are expanded on the homepage and you click on a link to be directed to a different page. Then the “back” browser button is pressed.
The page then tries to recreate the view that were loaded previously and fails.

Solution(Short Term):
Close all open views on the page and refresh (Ctrl + F5). This should reload the page and all data will be visible.

Just a little fix for this issue until i can find a long term solution ...

SharePoint 2010

Hi all.

I have just done my first 2010 SharePoint Deployment ....
complete with taxonomy and custom workflows.

More to follow as soon as i get more time to blog ...
PS. well done to Microsoft on making 2010 ...SOOOOOOOOOO much better than 2007...


Regards
Bradley

Get to the WebPart Maintenance page for any SharePoint site

Hi.
all that needs to be done is to add a "?content=1" to the end of the URL..
for example "http://mossdev/page/default.aspx?contents=1"

Thank You
Bradley

'null' is null or not an Object form.js

Hi.
this error was driving me up the wall ... and thought i would share this issue ..
what it boils down to is document/website compatibility  ... :(
so by implementing the appropriate compatibility mode, a SharePoint site can ensure compatibility with Internet Explorer 8 until the service pack is release to support IE8 compatibilty issues.
check out this link http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc817574.aspx

Thanks
Bradley ...

Crawler Coverts URL's to lowercase

Hi.



We had to crawl a system outside of SharePoint ... a custom CMS with a database table that holds all the data.

Strange problem where sharepoint was changing the URL's to lowercase...

and the crawler was not picking it up as valid URL's.

With a bit of googling i found this HOTFIX: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932619

once you apply the hotfix and recrawl the content source ... you should be good!!!!!!!!!!!!.
By the way also check the CRAWL RULES as i had to do this before i would get any results as well...