Workaround

I was never able to get it to work, even deleting the site and recreating did nothing for me. I assume there is some vestigal reference somewhere after deletion that affects subsequent installs.

I just created another site with another name, but followed the directions for "oldcompanyweb". All worked as expected.

> On Wednesday, June 02, 2010 3:20 PM sean.mcnamara wrote:

> I am in the process of migrating from SBS 2003 to SBS 2008. Everything
> seems to have worked well until I hit a wall on the Sharepoint
> migration. I copied the "old" companywed site to the target server, per
> the instructions, mounted the STS_SERVERname_1 database and created the
> web application named "oldcompanyweb". Then I got to the step where I
> have to set the site collection administrators. When the site collection
> administrators dialog opens and I try to select site collection
> "oldcompanyweb" the selection pane says there are no items to show in
> this view (see attached png file). Furthermore, I cannot access the site
> ate all. It keeps prompting for my username and password, and even
> though I am a sharepoint and Domain admin, it just prompts 3 times and
> then drops to blank page (not 404 errors or anything). Anyone got any
> ideas????? I am up against it here. thanks in advance for any help.
>
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