SharePoint: Error Upgrading SP ContentDB from Beta 2 to RTM (14.0.4536.1000 -> 14.0.4730.1000)

Well if you’re cracking on and updating your SharePoint Beta 2 Installs to RTM and
wanting to make it out the door while there’s some daylight leftthen you’re better
than meright now it’s dark! 🙂

Ok – so I figured, no probs just do a stsadm -o addcontentdb and
we’re well on our way, exactly the same from Beta 1 to Beta 2.

This time SharePoint RTM doesn’t want to play. I got this error:

Sequence [Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPContentDatabaseSequence]
cannot upgrade
an object [SPContentDatabase Name=WSS_Content_Int2010] whose build
version

[14.0.4536.1000] is too old. Upgrade requires [14.0.4730.1000] or higher.

1. Open up the ContentDB in SQL Management Studio and open up
   the Tables folder.
2. Locate the Versions Table (down the bottom).
3. Open the Versions Table in Edit Mode and modify
   the Rows which have a Version=14.0.4536.1000 next to them.
4. Simply change the version number to 14.0.4730.1000
5. Save the changes
6. Rerun the stsadm -o addcontentdb command
   and bob’s your uncle.

The ContentDB I used here was 18GB in size and all has come up trumps.

This may save you a bit of time and sure it’s a hack, but we’re now in RTM land.

Good luck 🙂

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