In the past, I would go through the not-too-painful-but-still-tedious process of reformatting and re-syncing all of the content.

I just discovered that I can simply restart the Zune, and when I connect it back up to my computer, everything is back to normal. I guess we still live under the principle of “when in doubt, reboot.”

Configuration Database

1. Go to the “Operations” tab
2. Click “Servers in Farm”
3. Under “Farm Information” see the following items:
   1. Configuration database server
   2. Configuration database name

Central Administration Content Database

1. Go to the “Application Management” tab
2. Click “Web application list”
3. Click “SharePoint Central Administration v3″
4. Under “SharePoint Site Management”, click “Site collection list”
5. Under the root “/” site, look in the information table for the “Database Name” value

General Usage Content Databases

1. Go to the “Application Management” tab
2. Click “Web application list”
3. For each web application listed other than “SharePoint Central Administration v3″ (see above), perform the following:
   1. Click the web application name
   2. Under “SharePoint Site Management”, click “Site collection list”
   3. For each listed site collection (by URL):
      1. Click the URL of the site collection
      2. In the information table, look for the “Database Name” value

Search Database

1. Go to the “Operations” tab
2. Under “Topology and Services”, click “Services on server”
3. Click the text “Windows SharePoint Services Help Search”
4. Under “Search Database”, look for the values:
   • Database Server
   • Database Name

There are several books that stand-out in my career where the value is well over the $50 spent on the book. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Best Practices is definitely one of those books.


P.S. WordPress 2.7 is pretty slick