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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] ...

Blog Post #2 of How I Successfully Upgraded eBay to SharePoint 2010 - Previous Blog in this series One of the decisions I made as the Sr Architect of the eBay upgrade project, was to NOT do a database attach upgrade of the SSP.  I viewed the whole process as not very reliable and we didn't want a bunch of junk moving foward to ...

And so it begins!  This is my first blog post in a few months...where have I been?  As some of you know, I have been the Sr. Architect of the eBay SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Project.  One of 3 *major* upgrades that are occuring in the United States in 2011.  I will be presenting a series of blog posts on how we did what we did and ...

In your migrated pages, you should see them all work correctly.  However, the moment you go to do something in the new Page Layouts of SharePoint 2010, you will quickly find that it doesn't work.  The new register directive sets the tag prefix as SharePointWebControls, NOT as SharePoint. In 2007: <SharePoint:FieldValue ...

This error is like a catch all of anything that could go wrong in your 2010 Farm, especially after upgrade!  There is a reason the 12 Hive is left over at the end of the upgrade.  You have stuff in it!  If you don't write a feature upgrade event for all your custom features before youdo the upgrade, your feature directories ...

You may get one of these errors in your Health Analyzer logs.  I am getting it on a database called WSS_Search_SVR-WEB1.  What happened was that I had two server in my farm, one of which I decommisioned to move to 64bit before moving to 2010. The older SVR-WEB1 had the WSS Search database tied too it.  But somehow when ...

Similar to the TaxonomyPicker.ascx, just rename this to SearchArea.ascx_old.  Notice that the code points to the old SharePoint 12.0 dlls and wont be used in your new 2010 farm. Chris

Another casualtiy of my upgrade.  The 12 Hive remains in the upgrade process, for some reason, SharePoint is still aggregating the old directory.  I removed the files (by raring them, just in case I needed any older non-migrated field types later) in the C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server ...