One of my customers is trying to migrate an old WSS 3.0 SP1 server to Office 365 ( better late than never :) ).
Unfortunately, he never added the SP2 on this server and he doesn't have an installer. We tried to add the SP2 from "Microsoft Update Catalog" but with no effect on this server.
A SP2010 farm was created to migrate the site collections with the SharePoint Migration Tool. However, the SP2 is required to upgrade the content databases to SP2010.
We also tried to use a tool like ShareGate but the size of the sites collections is to important with a big impact in term of delay. My customer don't want to buy a specific tool for a "one shot".
Does someone know if it's possible to download an installer of WSS 3.0 with SP2 (or SharePoint 2007 with SP2) ? I found a lot of broken link because of this old version.
Also, do you think it could be possible to export a WSS 3.0 SP1 site collection and import it directly in SP2010 with Powershell command (I mean especially because of the missing SP2 and the size > 70GB) ?
Thank you !
I'd like to put a table form oracle on my sharepoint 2010 (and soon to be updated 2013) site so that the table can be updated and new rows can be inserted. After googling using BCS seems to be the only option. Is this correct? the Sharepoint designer will not work with Oracle?
Also when I open Visual Studio 2012 Professional and click on new project>>Sharepoint>>Sharepoint 2010 Project I get an error saying
Sharepoint server must be installed to workwith share point projects.
Do I need to install sharepoint server on my machine?
Can anyone provide any documentation on how to do this? what happens when I go to Sharepoint 2013?
Oh yea and I have windows 7. Will sharepoint server work on windows 7?
Thank you!
I'll try to answer all your questions.
Oracle connectivity
BCS supports Oracle but it's not trivial. Sharepoint designer is a tool where you can create External Types (BCS types). But with Sharepoint Designer you are limited to SQL Server, WCF Services and .NET assemblies. There are few workarounds:
Create linked server to oracle in SQL Serve Management Studio and use Sharepoint Designer to create BCSentities
You can create service for fetching oracle data and use Sharepoint designer to create BCS entities
If you just want to display some data from oracle and have developer knowledge. You can use ODAC for .NET and create webparts for displaying data (the simplest solution of all).
For Sharepoint 2010 Development you have to install sharepoint (foundation or server) on copmuter where your VS resides. Sharepoint foundation could be installed on Windows 7 x64. Installation is trivial download sharepoint foundation and run installation file.
For Sharepoint 2013. You can create apps and client apps on remote computer but for farm solutions there is the same rule (but SP 2013 can't be installed on Windows 7).
I have a client who is upgrading parts of their Windows server infrastructure to Windows 2012. They have a MOSS 2007 installation on the same network currently.
Assuming that the WFEs and app servers (which run SharePoint Services) remain on Windows 2008 installations will the app servers be able to continue to run the AD imports successfully? Will adjustments need to be made? Or will it be outright incompatible?
I understand the best answer is to upgrade SP to 2010 or 2013 but am trying to understand all options. Thanks very much.
I want to install sharepoint 2007 in my PC. Before installation of sharepoint 2007 server, what are the requirements and after having all the requirements, what are the steps to install in my PC.
Regards,
Abhimanyu
Find the detailed installation guide of SharePoint 2007 on a system here
or you can use SharePoint 2007 VHD (available on microsoft site) and integrate via Virtual PC tool on your machine having XP, Vista OS (not a server OS 2003 or higher).
The first requirement is that you are running an actual Windows Server, not a PC. After that you need to decide if you are going to use a full SQL Server 2005 installation or the free express version. User authentication should also be considered before beginning: will you be using Active Directory, some other directory services or forms based authentication with your own user database?
I suggest you try the MS sites for more details and best practices. This is a good place to start: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288005%28office.12%29.aspx
I've just tried out TFS 2010 today, along with Project 2010 and VS 2010. Only Later realized that without Sharepoint, TFS is only configured as Basic. This reduces it's functionality as oppose to what I've seen during VS2010 product launch. Sadly I can't find any alternative but to get a trial copy of Sharepoint to see if it serve my purpose. Well, apparently Sharepoint only comes with x64 edition. I'm not formatting any machine to x64 just to give this a try. So, after some reading up, I found that Project Server is actually based on Sharepoint. Now I wonder is whether TFS can be configure to connect to Project Server?
If it's possible, would the setting be much different that Sharepoint's?
And what am I missing from this setup as oppose to Sharepoint's?
Based on Sharepoint != Sharepoint. I think that Project Server is just a subset of Sharepoint functionality. Also, basing Project on Sharepoint allows for some really tight integration into your portal. To answer your question, I don't think you still will get your fully featured TFS without Sharepoint Proper.
FYI - Sharepoint 2007 (or 3.0 or whatever it is) is not x64 only, but will run on x86. TFS 2010 will go full feature on 2007
Sharepoint 2007 Trial
To answer what you are missing:
Reports
Project Portal
TFS Web Access
That's about it. You still get 90% of the features with your current deployment without SharePoint. Tommy is right about MOSS 2007, it comes in 32-bit and will give you all features. Project Server runs on top of SharePoint as a shared service provider. Traditionally MS releases a power toy to integrate TFS with Project Server. They said they would go over this at TechEd, which just happened about a week ago.
Also, I suspect the integration with Project Server 2010 will be better, but then you will have to run SharePoint 2010 :(
In my opinion, TFS has enough to run most projects by itself and you can use the client version of MS Project for critical path anaylsis, etc.
Use Windows Sharepoint Services for Windows 2003 & Windows 2008:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/sharepoint/bb400747.aspx
For Windows Server 2008 sp2 and Windows Server R2, use SharePoint Foundation 2010:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=49c79a8a-4612-4e7d-a0b4-3bb429b46595&displaylang=en
Both are free.
I'm not formatting any machine to x64
just to give this a try.
Why not use VMWare Server, Hyper-V, Virtual Box or some other virtualization software to run the pre-made demo/trial/lab VHD's - no formatting, no installation, no setup, more hair.
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