Ulysses Ludwig's SharePoint blog

Configure a SQL Server Alias for Sharepoint (SQL Server 2008)

A SQL Server alias is a tidy way to protect yourself from configuration changes in a SharePoint farm. Anybody who works with SharePoint on a regular basis knows that it is very difficult to move SharePoint to a different SQL Server. When disaster strikes wouldn't it be nice if you could simply change SQL Server that SharePoint references? To do so, install the SQL client access tools on each server and create a SQL Alias in SQL Server Configuration Manager, from there your SharePoint Server can ...

Restoring a SharePoint Site Collection to a new domain

One would think that SharePoint would prevent you from loading up a SharePoint backup on a new domain with conflicting SIDs and usernames, but it actually allows you to do so without too much grief. I recently had to do this for a client who was having serious problems with WSS search and after a few trials and tribulations with STSADM I was able to get it up and running on my test virtual machine in a matter of minutes. Obviously my test VM isn't on the client's domain nor does it share and SID...