chaoticsoul

Well this month we finally managed to get all of our Wintel servers upgraded to ePO 4.0, sadly we still have one server that is still running VSE 8.0.  Hopefully I can get that one upgraded to 8.5 this month, so I can close out that SWE as well.

I spent most of the month, preparing for, testing and then deploying WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007 SP2.  The upgrade in our test farm went smoothly, and for the most part it went smoothly in production.  I only ran into one unexpected snag in production.  After extracting both WSS SP2 binaries and the MOSS SP2 binaries, when I ran the setup wizard, it never prompted to start the wizard on the other servers, and then failed to install.  The fix was to reboot the entire farm, and then run the wizard again.  At this point, everything proceded as it was supposed to, and the upgrade was a success.  (that is after going in and adding our license key again, would’ve thought Microsoft would’ve released an updated service pack to resolve that little issue by now).

I also finished updating our SharePoint installation documents, to include not only installing SharePoint and Project server, but creating the default SSP, mysites, etc.  As well as all post SharePoint configuration changes/application installs that we’ve made to our production environment.  I’m still working on merging those changes into our DR document, but will hopefully have that completed shortly as well.  Anyway, the big positive here, is that we now have a step by step document for every step needed to reproduce our production environment with every addon, third party app, and custom configuration setting.

Once I finish updating the DR document, I hope I can find the time to polish our back up script.  Currently everytime a new site or mysite is added, we have to manually add it to the backup script.  I’m pretty sure, that we can completely automate this process, I just need to find the time to work on it.  As it sits now, I update the script once a month, and again before any major change, but that does leave holes in our backup process.