Clone Microsoft VM > SharePoint issues
- by Rob
Hi,
We have an existing (production) Hyper-V VM that I want to clone to create a staging server.
This server is NOT on a domain/active-directory - uses all local computer accounts.
It is Windows 2008 OS, SharePoint 2007, SQL server 2008, Reporting Services, and some custom line-of-business web-applications.
We rename the server etc as per the documentation we have, but are having troubles specifically with SharePoint. Some of the sites do not come up, and some issues adding/updating site settings such as site owners.
Does anyone know of a definitive resource to this process?
thanks
Update:
We seem to have most working, but the Shared Service Provider, and the SSP's admin site, are not working. In addition, the custom web-parts that reference IIS Session objects are failing (which seem to be related to the Share Service Provider). All the Windows user accounts for various services are renamed during the server cloning, but the windows account names in SQL server are not automatically changed. We've tried to change them in SQL server but still does not seem to work
Seems like allot of work - and am thinking that there must be some guidance out there.
also getting this:
NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.]
Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.SqlSessionStateResolver.System.Web. IPartitionResolver.ResolvePartition(Object key) +135
