For all its benefits, I've found that Sharepoint can also be an ugly, nasty, hateful beast. If you're down and need to get back up pdq you might try Microsoft Product Support Services.
http://support.microsoft.com/gp/offerprophone_new From: Marty Nelson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 1:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Is there a SharePoint Expert that can help me out? 2.0 - 3.0 PROBLEMS Sorry, a little more info. This is running on a W2K3 SP@ machine with IE7. Now it's degraded to the point to where I cannot even connect to the central management page. Says "Cannot connect to the configuration database." Now when I set this up originally YEARS ago, I accepted all of the defaults and now have no idea where the data resides. I have ~* very lightly used SharePoint sites, none of which are available at the moment. This database error is a new phenomenon since I last posted Thanks, -Marty From: Marty Nelson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 10:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Is there a SharePoint Expert that can help me out? 2.0 - 3.0 PROBLEMS So I started the workup to this upgrade yesterday. Got all of the prereq stuff loaded, ran a prescan everything came back dandy. Ran the upgrade, looked like it finished with no problems. And that's where it fell off of a cliff. Looking at the upgrade.log file there are some errors and failures, but I have no idea what it means, much less how to fix them. If there's anyone out there that can help me out I would greatly appreciate it! FWIW, these are the instructions I've been following: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc424954.aspx PLEASE HELP! -Marty ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
