Windows Server 2008 Standard Upgrade

1. If you are upgrading a DC then you have to run ADPREP /forestprep and ADPREP /domainprep before you can upgrade.  The ADPREP program is located on the DVD in the sources\adprep folder.
2. I had to uninstall PowerShell 1.0 for Windows 2003 Server.  This was a bit hard to track down as it is located under Add/Remove Programs only if you have the "Show Updates" checkbox selected.
3. When the upgrade was finally done a few MOSS things were broken:

i) The Document Conversions Load Balancer Service was not happy it complained about not being able to connect;  I went into SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration | Operations | Services on Server and stopped the following services:

Document Conversions Load Balancer Service

Document Conversions Launcher Service

Then I started the Document Conversions Load Balancer Service followed by the Document Conversions Launcher Service and all was fixed.

 

ii)  My content index was corrupt and I was receiving the following error "Content index on Search could not be initialized. Error The content index is corrupt.".  Again in SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration | Operations | Services on Server and stopped the following service:

Windows SharePoint Services Search

Then I started the service again and selected a different database (to avoid conflicts with the previous one) and all was fixed.