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As a tribute to the 1-year anniversary of the start of the eBay upgrade project, I thought I would share the video I created to show at our celebration party in San Jose.  It is a great video, and shows how much fun we had (and you should too) when we did the upgrade.  The team deserves a tremendous amout of credit for the work and ...

This was a tough error, THAT IS AN UPGRADE SHOWSTOPPER, that I ran into a few months ago.  Just now getting around to blogging it.  Here's the full error: [powershell] [SPSiteWssSequence] [ERROR] [9/29/2011 12:02:27 PM]: Action 4.0.23.0 of Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPSiteWssSequence failed. [powershell] [SPSiteWssSequence] ...

How do I always seem to be the guy finding this stuff is beyond me, but I'm always excited when I figure this stuff out...ok, was getting this error after trying to run the PSConfig after an upgrade to SP1 and December 2011 CU. [OWSTIMER] [SPUpgradeSession] [INFO] [1/8/2012 1:48:44 PM]: SPWebApplication Name=SharePoint - xxx [OWSTIMER] ...

As part of our eBay presentation at the SharePoint Conference 2011, we showed how we performed the upgrade in 3 months and utilized Managed Metadata (MMS) in site creation to drive searchability across the SharePoint Farm.  The biggest question I have received so far from the presentation is about the MMS ...

Here is a short recap of all the cool stuff that happened this week. Over 7,500 people showed up in Anaheim, CA on Sunday to enjoy networking and learning about SharePoint!  The event started off with the exhibit hall reception where you got your first sneak peak at the vendors.  Exhibit Hall The first big booths you would get to ...

After the eBay upgrade, I have decided that it is really easy to do SharePoint upgrades and thusly I'm doing another upgrade here in San Diego.  As part of the upgrade, you have to go through and analyze the 3rd party components that are installed and make sure they are going to work in 2010.  As I have learned, most are not SP2010 ...

Dear SharePoint Colleagues,  Join the eBay team and myself as we discuss the eBay upgrade to SharePoint 2010 and how we did it in 3.5 months.  The Conference session link is here: How eBay Successfully Upgraded their Intranet to SharePoint 2010   Here is an outline of what we plan on speaking about:Why eBay moved to ...

Dear SharePoint Colleagues, Get ready for a great evening at the 2011 SharePoint Conference!  On Wednesday night, Oct 5th, after the exhibit hall reception, we will be having a SoCal SharePint party.  Join us at Bar Louie's outside patio reserved specifically for us (directly across the street from the Convention ...

Dear SharePoint Colleagues,  We are pleased to announce that we are making available generic MS Project Plan and Governance plans and the SP Build Guide and MS Project Deployment Project based on all the upgrade projects we have been involved with over the years (including the latest eBay project).  I will post ...

Sooo, I mentioned that we did a few *firsts* at eBay.  One of them was to put Windows Server 2008 R2 in the DMZ and try to get SharePoint 2010 to work.  Needless to say, after setting everything up properly, it didn't.  After enabling 500 failed request tracing in the web servers and doing some crazy port analyzer stuff with ...