Just a little warning for you guys:
stsadm –o uninstall will uninstall SHAREPOINT from your server with NO WARNING.
That is bad. very very very bad.
funny enough, when you type stsadm –help, it doesn’t even list this command.
WOW.
IF you should happen to accidently type this when, say, trying to uninstall a feature and accidently hitting enter too soon --(Hypothetically speaking of course…) you are pretty much in for a world of hurt.
You will have to re-install sharepoint,reconfigure Central Admin and SSP(s) and then re-attach your content db.
The difficulty here is that your content db will no longer be getting the profile synch b/c it is still associated with the old SSP in the database, even though through the UI, you can see that your web app is correctly associated with the new SSP after reinstall. I haven’t quite figured out how to fix this. Any insight into how to fix the association of a content db to an SSP would be much appreciated.
One amazing thing I did find, however, is that once site was up and running again, workflows seem to continue without a hiccup. I’m guessing this has something to do with the dehydration/rehydration of the workflow when it is waiting for the next step to happen.
Hope none of you will ever run into this!
2 comments:
I have a simular problem with mysites and a new SSP. I think you can still attach the DB to the SSP, then stsadm -o backup or export them all, then re-import them into the a nwe mysites. I'v only read it at a few places and haven't confirmed it works yet.
If you want to attach the existing content DB to new SSP you need to run the following command.
1) stsadm -o preparetomove -contentdb SQLSERVER:DBNAME -site http://sharepoint
It removes the old refernces of SSP
2) stsadm -o deletecontentdb -url http://sharepoint -databaseserver SQLSERVER -databasename DBNAME
It actually detaches your database from your farm.
3) stsadm -o addcontentdb -url http://sharepoint -databasename DBNAME -databaseserver SQLSERVER
It actually reattaches your database to your farm.
Bharathesh Murthy
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