Thought I would post some general issues that I have encountered during SPS 2003 upgrades and MOSS 2007 migrations as well as their solutions:

User ID does not exist

When importing a site from a recently upgraded SPS 2003 server into a new MOSS 2007 environment (done to split the content DBs), and you may get an this error when specifying the -includeusersecrutiy switch.

  • The problem here was that SP1 was not installed on the MOSS 2007 upgraded environment, but was installed on the target MOSS 2007 environment.

Site was successfully upgraded, but does not exist

Recenty I encountered a problem where the SPS 2003 upgrade was 100% successfull, but on closer inspection found that the very last SPS 2003 site did not exist in the upgraded environment. I checked all the relevant logs (like the upgrade.log) and found that the site HAD been successfull in the upgrade.

  • Although I still have not found out WHY the site did not exist, what I did to solve the problem was to create a blank site in the pre-upgraded SPS 2003 portal with a url of "z999" (sites are upgraded alphabetically)
  • I performed the upgrade again and the the previous site that did not exist now exists and the "z999" site does not exist (although in the logs it was sucessfully upgraded).
  • I see this only happens on the SPS 2003 environments where SP3 is installed.
  • Go figure.

If anyone else can duplicate this and has some idea as to WHY this is happening, let me know =) Otherwise use my solution, and you have my sympathy if you have to REUPGRADE you environment =(

More to come...

This post will be updated whenever I come accross something that is not overblogged somewhere else =)

Doug "bobthebuilder" McCusker