Sharepoint farm lost a server... How to proceed?
Had a Sharepoint farm I inherited that was running on ____ hardware in a ____ setup- raid controller failed, and the rack was setup so that I have to down 15 servers that might not come back up, just to get at the server... Complete, unrecoverable failure. This server was a member of our Sharepoint 2007 farm, and had Reporting Services on it. There are a lot of little pieces that are still referenced in the Central Configuration. I removed the server forcibly, and need to know next steps, specifically: 1. I tried to move Reporting Services to another server, but I get an error in the Grant Database privileges that I cannot connect to the Report Server's WMI Provider. I created a SPN on a DC, forced a replication a few hours ago, and still no luck. Any Advice? 2. How do I fix all the little things that reference that server? Anytime Sharepoint initiates a web page to Central Administration, it tries to use that server address. I think the failed server was running SQL 2008 or SQL 2008 R2, and the server I am moving this to is SQL 2005 SP2. I have installed the correct Reporting Services for Sharepoint. Have I missed something? Time is of the essence because management relies on Reporting Services and I am under a great deal of pressure to fix this. I appreciate any help I can get. Thanks!
August 26th, 2010 5:28pm

Most importnat thing I can offer is that SSRS isnt backwards compatible, so the reorts and pieces desgined for SQL2008 will not run under SQL2005. In general, I would next backup the config database and then run through the configuration wizard. Which version of SharePoint are you running? You can check here for my latest build table: http://blogs.kma-llc.net/microknowledge/2010/06/june-2010-sharepoint-2007-cumulative-updates-and-internal-version-numbers.html Patching may help... Chris Chris McNulty MCSE/MCTS/MSA/MVTS http://www.kma-llc.net | blog http://blogs.kma-llc.net/microknowledge | twitter @cmcnulty2000
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August 30th, 2010 2:21pm

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