Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPUpgradeException: Action 12.0.1.0 of Microsoft.Office.Server. Search.Upgrade.SearchServiceInstanceSequence failed

February 1, 2008   14:14

Migrating your SharePoint environment inside a virtual machine might cause some unexpected behaviour. It can be possible that you bump into this error:

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MigrateSPUsers: Sharepoint 2003 user account migration tool

January 30, 2008   9:10

At my current Sharepoint 2003 to 2007 migration project, we have to migrate Sharepoint 2003 users to a different domain server. On my world wide web search I bumped into an utility called “SPUserUtil” that was part of the “SharePoint Utility Suite”, but unfortunately the author decided to take the project offline and it is no longer available.

This blog post from Alexander Windel provided enough information about the process of migrating Sharepoint users. For WSS sites you can use the “stsadm -o migrateuser” command, but this is not enough for a Sharepoint 2003 Portal Server. The problem is that you’ll also need to use code to call the function PortalAccountMigrationManager.MigrateAccount() in the object model.

Last evening I created a small Sharepoint user migration utility, to make our life a bit easier. It will run both commands for you and it will allow you to migrate a larger batch of Sharepoint users at once.

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