SharePoint Mirroring

re: SharePoint Mirroring

Michael — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 08:34:48 GMT

custom DLLs can be easily tracked by their location in the bin folder of IIS - just move them to new server and that's all.

GAC dlls are bit tricky to find. Actually, what you can do is to inspect the web.config section for all safecontrols dlls.

Just create a new site (and activate published features) to have the clear web.config. And then compare <safecontrols> section of the clear web.config with corresponded web.config you are migrating

re: SharePoint Mirroring

Boris Gomiunik — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 07:21:41 GMT

Very nice article! Thanks for the in-depth info. Is there a way to also mirror custom DLLs in GAC and custom themes?

re: SharePoint Mirroring

Michael — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:44:45 GMT

Are you sure that your called "stsadm -o preparetomove"? before detaching? missing this call gives 90% of all problems

Try to follow this blogs.technet.com/.../detaching-databases-in-moss-2007-environments.aspx guideline how to detach and re-attach db.

re: SharePoint Mirroring

steve — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:36:31 GMT

Michael

I have the problem you mention in your troubleshooting, but I am not doing any mirroring. I have restored a backup of our ContentDB to a test environment and then tried to add the contentdb to my test sharepoint site using 'stsadm –o addcontentdb....' but get the error you mention (Cannot open database "<…>" requested by the login. The login failed. Login failed for user '….'.) in the update log.

Why would this happen? I have done this process several time and it has always worked - any help would be greatly appreciated