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3/31/2007 12:09 PM
 

I have 4.3.7 functional on a server with MS SQL Express. There are a few minor issues (I.e. all portals can see the results of feedback from any portal -- dumb. And skins won't go away, maybe a couple of other minor ones as well).

I have a new server 2003 Standard, MS SQL 2005 Workgroup.

I've tried to get 4.4.1 installed manually (after about 12 connection string edits I still get the famous "cannont connect... database connection string..." message). Then tried with the MSV vsi - it ran out of room for error messages -- pretty cool failure :-P - I'm about ready to quit and do DotNet 3 by 5 cards ;^)

Should I (or can I) copy the 4.3.7 web files and db over to the new server and install/upgrade 4.4.1 over it?

OR

Should I install 4.4.1, get it up and running somehow and then copy the 4.3.7 db into MS SQL 2005 and repoint 4.4.1 web.config to it?

BTW I tried to put 4.4.1 upgrade onto the old 4.3.7 server and killed it badly - instruction docs are thin on doing it.

Thanks,

Christopher

PS Totally off topic: I bought an Alienware m9700 (my first maxed out super expensive laptop) with Vista (a not ready for prime time OS - big surprise) and the dual SLI NVidia video cards don't work together (Vista) and the RAID1 failed after an AWC tech walked me through a bios flash to try and solve the multiple daily blue screens. Now I have a single (dual) video card, single (dual) hard drive blue screening brick. I've been one of Bill "There's an OS buyer born every minute" Gates' beta testers through every OS since DOS 6 - I thought this time I would surely get a real OS - hee hee hee. Just wanted to bemoan Vista. (and BTW2) the m9700 has Blue Ray which will barely play and errors out if I try to push it to a larger external monitor using DVI (it tells me to switch to VGA -- yeah right Blue Ray on VGA!) And the kicker of all kickers is I have a dual core AMD 64 bit processor but Vista is running at 32 bit (AWC says it is for lack of 64 bit Vista drivers) -- why pay for 64 bit processing, and a 64 bit OS when you can only run at 32?!

 
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