Another Ektron CMS 400.NET client upgrade to 7.6.6 SP2 successfully completed today. in spite of only getting three consecutive hours of sleep last night due to an extremely unhappy newborn, I was able to deal with all the many little qwerks and tricks to get MEDGroup.com up and running.

A few notes to mention with today's upgrade:

1. Replicated SQL Servers leaves a field in every table be replicated that kills the DB scripts. I resolved this through my prototyping routines.
2. Ran into a snag with the SearchConfigUI utility. Failed after successfully indexing everything. Not sure about this one.
3. Remember that the 7.6.6 SP2 DB scripts are incomplete for some reason. Can be fixed by running the Ektron 7.6.6 SP2 SQL Hotfix to fix the get_date error in the workarea.
4. For some reason, after upgrading, even though the URL aliasing wasn't being used, the ek_DefaultPage started working (previously was ignored?). So I had to modify the web.config to keep the root of the site from resolving to the default.aspx page that wasn't used.
   1. <add key="ek_DefaultPage" value="Index.aspx" />
   2. <add key="ek_DisableUrlAliasingHandler" value="True" />

if you are looking for a partner that can perform the prototyping, testing, and final upgrade of your Ektron CMS site, feel free to contact me.