Anyone who has gone through a WebSphere Portal upgrade and has portlets which use JSF has likely had some issues. I am currently working on a portal 6.0.x to 7.0.x migration and want to share a massive JSF challenge to hopefully spare others some pain. The problem created is that <hx:requestLink /> tags are blocked […]
Posts Tagged ‘Upgrade’
MigrateUsers Method Breaks All Web Application Permissions
On my current project we are doing a migration from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010. Updating our current authentication scheme (a mix of .Net forms and Windows authentication) to utilize claims authentication is one of the requirements for this project. One major difference between how SharePoint treats users in SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 claims […]
Problem deploying content types that inherit during SharePoint 2010 upgrade
I am currently on a project to upgrade a custom SharePoint 2007 public facing internet site to SharePoint 2010. While testing out our custom site templates by provisioning sites we ran into some issues with custom content types supposedly not existing during the provisioning. This was very perplexing as these content type definitions deployed fine […]
Do I Need to Upgrade Distribution Groups When Upgrading Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010?
Background: After adding Exchange 2010 SP1 Servers to an Exchange 2003 environment, I noticed some strange behavior when using the Exchange Management Console to review and modify Distribution Groups. Specifically, I noticed that the settings on the Membership Approval tab of all Distribution Groups were grayed out as in the following example: In order to […]