DIE SHAREPOINT DIE
December 17, 2007
I been trying to not to blog about work too much but this is just friggin retarded. So we been running a sharepoint server at work for storing all our documentation on (WSS 3.0 to be exact). Everything was fine and it worked like a champ till it just up and shit all over itself for no reason what so ever. My co-worker and I tried everything we can think to figure out what the hell happened to get it fixed. First there was nothing in the so called logs that was even remotely usefull. Every single piece of documentation that my co-worker found on trying to get the fucking piece of shit fix didn’t work. Hell we can’t even get out data out of the database or even reinstall sharepoint and point it to the existing database. Needless to say we lost everything not matter what.
So now we are going to ditch running a web server running windows and ditch sharepoint and move on to a linux/oss solution. We are going to have two identical servers we have left over from a legacy app we were using to use a production and development webservers. We’ll use the dev box to hammer on and strictly use the production box for well….production only. We’ll need to come up with a good backup solution to that way if shit crashes…we are not completely hosed.
I been checking out a couple of document management apps and I found something we are going to try out. We are going to try out the community version of Alfresco. It looks like it will do everything we need. I’ll post more thoughts on it when we start rolling it out and working on it some more.
