This MS forum has got to be the single worst internet forum I've ever experiences with it's formatting and it's flakiness at letting you post, which seems completely random and arbitrary.
I take it that you never used the old forums - they were a lot worse in my opinion.
I occasionally have problems with posting, but those problems tend to be temporary. But, yes, I don't like this division into Comments and Answers. I have the impression the idea is that Q&A should be like Stackoverflow, that is more of a answer repository than a discussion forum, but that is not how it works in practice. And in that context the limitation of 1000 characters for Comments becomes a nuisance..
Anyway, I think your list looks fine. I have two remarks:
- In point 4, I assume that "2" is a typo for "26".
- For step 7, don't forget to run this on the destination server: EXEC sp_dropserver DESTINATIONNAME
EXEC sp_addserver ORIGINNAME, local
You need to do this, so that @@servername gets the correct value.
Then again, it can't be a bad idea to turn off application services like Sharepoint. I haven't worked with Sharepoint, so I don't know it reacts when the database all of a sudden becomes readonly.