Re: "The template you have chosen is invalid or cannot be found."

Yes! I have been manually creating portals after sp2 screwed up
templates. With all the customization we do it was a 45 minute
process.. I could not even apply a site theme through frontpage. This
did the trick!


Mark wrote:
> I found this tech post that solved the problem of not being able to use
> custom templates or modidy list items after applying the WSS sp2 patch.
> Apparently this fix only works if one or more of your virtual servers did not
> properly upgrade during the patch install. you can tell if one or more did
> not upgrade by looking a the version number of your virtual server. In my
> case the one that did not upgrade properly was a secure or Https virtual
> server: here is the fix...
>
> I called Technical Support. Here is how they solved my problem. Maybe
> this will help someone
>
> Issue:
> Could not edit columns on a list, could not add choices to a choice
> drop down list, could not import a spread***, could not apply a custom
> template.
>
> Resolved:
> Seems that my WSS SP2 installed the updated files but did not update
> the SQL database.
> When I went to Central Administration -> Windows SharePoint Services ->
> Configure virtual server settings - it listed my sharepoint site as
> needing to be upgraded. I ran the following command and it fixed it:
> C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server
> extensions\60\BIN>STSADM.EXE -o upgrade -forceupgrade
>
> In the future, the tech support guy suggested that I run all the WSS
> Service Packs and Patches as the service account.
>
>
>
> > Since we just got started with SPS, we ended up rebuilding it with SP2 and
> > then creating the team site (previously we had built the team site and then
> > applied SP2).
> >
> > It works now, but that doesn't bode well for whenever another SP comes out
> > and we have a site well-developed.
> >
> > - Joe
> >
> > "Travis Parigi" wrote:
> >
> > > We are having the same problem on one of our Share Point production servers after
> > > installing SP2. If you find a solution, please post it. Thanks.
> > >

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