Monday, January 29, 2007 8:44 AM
From many of the posts on the newsgroups it seems that there is a bit of a hang up on one particular problem that many of the Sharepoint Administrators and Developers are hitting when they are upgrading their old version of SPS to the new one.
First off, there are 3 different ways to upgrade, but the one that seems to be causing some problems is the one where they take a copy of the old 2.0 database and attach it to a new 3.0 instance. This in turn is supposed to upgrade the 2.0 database to be accessable in 3.0.
People are getting "Database could not be upgraded. It is too old" (or something like that). The problem stems from the 2.0 version not being upgraded to SP2. If you upgrade the 2.0 instance then port a copy of the database over, you will find that it should upgrade.
Also, in another great post someone pointed out that TechNet actually has a downloadable book for SPS/MOSS 2007 installation and upgrade. Check it out here.
Happy Coding.
Michael