We migrated our Sharepoint 2003 environment to Sharepoint 2007 in May and at the time did not have our SQL 2005 environment setup yet so we placed the databases on our SQL 2000 cluster. I am attempting to move all our sharepoint Sharepoint 2007 databases over to SQL 2005, I am wondering if you anyone had insight or experience with this process.
I have in our dev environment copied all the databases between SQL 2000 and 2005 and tried a couple methods; One is to run the psconfig and remove the farm from the existing SQL2000 server and point to a copy of the config database on SQL2005 but that does not change the pointers in the database so al the content is still running on the SQL 2000 server.
I tried creating a new farm and adding everything back in which includes rebuilding the web applications; 3rd party web parts; and other customization.
Is there a better process for this. It seems like the method of creating a new farm is the only option I can find. I have found a few other postings that mention stadam –o renameserver.
