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I totally hosed Sharepoint Services
I'm totally of of ideas and I need you help.
Long story short, I hosed a perfectly good Sharepoint Services 3.0 server by promoting it to a domain controller. Before I began my "hack and slash" repair, I stopped the SQL service and coppied all of the SQL databases to another location.
To "fix" this problem I DCPROMO'ed the server back to a member server, uninstalled SQL and Sharepoint, and did repair installs on .NET 2.0 and 3.0. I then reinstalled Sharepoint and used the included SQL database engine. This fresh install of Sharepoint runs just fine. I can connect to the basic "starter" site and teh admin web sites. My problem is restoring the origional config and content databases and sites.
I tried stopping the SQL service (<servername>\microsoft##s
I've tried everything I can think of to get the old databases working. It appears from other logs that besides the login errors, the Sharepoint site is looking for the fresh install databases. I'm a SQL Server DBA by trade but I don't have much experience with Sharepoint. I really need to get the origional config and content databases running so I can get the origional sites back.
Any ideas?
Long story short, I hosed a perfectly good Sharepoint Services 3.0 server by promoting it to a domain controller. Before I began my "hack and slash" repair, I stopped the SQL service and coppied all of the SQL databases to another location.
To "fix" this problem I DCPROMO'ed the server back to a member server, uninstalled SQL and Sharepoint, and did repair installs on .NET 2.0 and 3.0. I then reinstalled Sharepoint and used the included SQL database engine. This fresh install of Sharepoint runs just fine. I can connect to the basic "starter" site and teh admin web sites. My problem is restoring the origional config and content databases and sites.
I tried stopping the SQL service (<servername>\microsoft##s
I've tried everything I can think of to get the old databases working. It appears from other logs that besides the login errors, the Sharepoint site is looking for the fresh install databases. I'm a SQL Server DBA by trade but I don't have much experience with Sharepoint. I really need to get the origional config and content databases running so I can get the origional sites back.
Any ideas?
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I can't do that because each of the Sharepoint databases are named with the SID as part of the DB name. So, instead of WSS_CONTENT I have WSS_Content_596cf0d1-214b-