Comments on: SharePoint 2007 – Move Content and Configuration Databases

By: Laurent

Laurent — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:05:01 +0000

Thanks for this article. I’d like to add an important warning : the stsadm setconfigdb is obselete. Instead psconfig should be used (it looks like it is very similar though)

Here are related links :

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261712.aspx
where microsoft says that setconfigdb is obselete.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263093.aspx
for details to “attach” your new config DB to SharePoint using psconfig.

Hope this will help.

By: Bob Russell

Bob Russell — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:13:38 +0000

Thanks for these great instructions. I am migrating from a single host SQLServer to a Cluster. Using your instructions, I successfully moved the config db but CA stopped working. I simply ran the config wizard on the CA host and that got everything working again. Today I will be moving the content dbs. Thanks again.

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:37:10 +0000

Interesting read. I am currently in the proces of executing a move of the SharePoint databases, but I am not sure on how I can move the various Shared Services databases (such as Profiles and Search). They are not listed to belong to a specific site and I am not sure what to do with them. Should I enter the same site for each of these databases so it’s added as an extra content database?? Not sure if it will work that way.

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SharePoint, SharePoint and stuff : SharePoint Kaffeetasse #59 — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:06:15 +0000

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