July 2008 - Posts

• Having problems uninstalling MOSS 2007...Uninstall box dissapears after you accept and hit the OK button??

  After applying MOSS SP1 I was having some database issues when running the sharepoint config wizard to complete the upgrade.  I decided that I was going to completely blow away the server and start from scratch.  Ok that’s easy enough unless when you attempt to uninstall MOSS 2007 and select ok the box disappears and MOSS does NOT get uninstalled…OUCH!    So after about an hour of fiddling with it I decided that I was just going to remove the server from the farm from central admin ( I am running a medium farm with multiple WFE’s).  To do this go to Operations>>Servers in Farm>> and click on the link below .  Once I removed the server from the farm magically I could then uninstall MOSS 2007 woohooo battle has been won…for now.     Posted Jul 31 2008, 06:13 PM by jmedero with no comments

• Interested in presenting at the NYCSPUG or NJSPUG??

  Hey everyone,  Over the past 2-3 years I have been extensively working with the NJSPUG (New Jersey SharePoint User Group) and NYCSPUG (you get the idea!).  It is amazing to see just how much the NYCSPUG has grown!   I rememeber our first NYCSPUC had about 5 people show up to the first meeting and now the average attendance is like 80+ which is just awesome.  Lately I have been involved with standing up another SPUG in my home state of NJ (hence NJSPUG).  The group is slowly growing and we are trying our best to bring in great speakers and grow the attendance as best as we can.  The one thing that I have learned through working with the NYCSPUG is that in order for a user group to really succeed it needs the help of the community, great technical/business speakers and a format that works for the audience. So in an effort to recruit the best technical and business speakers I figured my blog might be a great channel for this.  So here goes:    If you are going to be in the NYC/NJ (Iselin) area and would like to present on  MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 then please contact me.  Being a user group we cannot cover travel expenses but we will have a speaker goody basket for you and if you come to NYCSPUG we have free beer after the meetings! NJSPUG meets every 3rd Wed of each month NYCSPUG meets the 1st Wed of each month So come contribute to the community and help make the next user group meeting a positive learning experience!  Cheers,   Posted Jul 08 2008, 04:13 PM by jmedero with no comments Filed under: MOSS 2007

• Unable to upgrade SharePoint Products and Technologies because an upgrade is already in progress....MOSS 2007 SP1 Woes...

  So recently I was tasked with applying MOSS 2007 SP1 to a medium farm.  All was well after I installed the binaries on each of the servers and ran the SharePoint configuration wizard on te sever running central administration first.  I then moved to one of the web front ends and ran the SharePoint configuraion wizard (psconfg).  The wizard failed wit the error below: "Unable to upgrade SharePoint Products and Technologies because an upgrade is already in progress.  Upgrade progress can be monitored using the Central Administration Web Application or by monitoring the upgrade log on server."   So first I thought that I would be able to go into central administration (CA) and remove the upgade timer job and all would be good.  Kind of lik when a backup or restore fails throu CA you just delete the timer job and all is well.  Well I didn't see a timer job that may have failed that I could delete.  So i decided I was going to run the SharePoint config wizard through command line which is psconfig.exe to see if I could get a more descriptive message as to what I need to track down.  So I ran the syntax below:  psconfig -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -wait –force    But for the most part that yielded the same error as above.  So upon further research I found this little STSADM command line gem that allowed me to clear the SP1 upgrade plate and apply the service pack again via the psconfig.exe command line interface.       Run this with STSADM:  stsadm -o setproperty -pn command-line-upgrade-running -pv No    I am not quite sure what caused the error specifically to begin with probably most likely cause was that for some reason or another the timer job was stuck somewhere in the middle of SharePoint space.  Anyhow I thought I would post this as it may help someone and save some time.   Cheers! Posted Jul 01 2008, 12:49 AM by jmedero with 6 comment(s) Filed under: MOSS 2007