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The Zen Art Of SharePoint 2003 to MOSS 2007 upgrades

The following blog gives a set of steps to allow the smooth migration or upgrade of a SharePoint 2003 portal site to MOSS 2007. (Note only portal aspects covered)

1. Analysis and Identification

Carryout a full assessment of existing portal to include:
- Sites
- Usage
- Standard Web Part usage
- Custom Site Definitions & Templates
- Screen layouts and UI customisation
- Databases
- Infrastructure
Evaluate New requirements
- Out of the box Web Parts provided by MOSS 2007
- Extension of existing web parts
- UI requirements
- Branding changes
Define UI
- Define new CSS
- Define Master Page(s) for Applications, Sites and Content Pages
Backup old Portal
Create Local (Dev) Platform (use virtual server)
- Restore Old Portal Here
- Deploy Custom Web parts and other pre-developed pieces
- Run prescan.exe with information of Custom site definitions and resolve any errors
- Install MOSS 2007 as 'Gradual Upgrade'
- Run MOSS 2007 Configuration Wizard to install MOSS 2007 side by side
Development of Custom Site Definition/Templates

Matching Existing Site Definitions/Templates with MOSS Server 2007 Site Templates
Develop Site Definition in MOSS 2007 Technology
Test Site Definition in new Environment
Develop any definition upgrades required and deploy

Test & Fix
Deploy to Live
Remove Portal 2003 and associated databases, definitions ect
Complete MOSS 2007 setups including Search

posted on Monday, October 01, 2007 11:34 PM

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# re: The Zen Art Of SharePoint 2003 to MOSS 2007 upgrades 10/2/2007 1:47 AM Wade Wegner

Great list, thank you for posting!

# re: The Zen Art Of SharePoint 2003 to MOSS 2007 upgrades 10/7/2008 7:13 AM Gaurav

Hi,

I have a different scenario here. I have Sharepoint Server 2003 and it is in Production environment.

I have got a task to upgrade it to MOSS 2007 however on a different server (a test server). Sharepoint Server 2003 is NOT installed on this test machine.

I have no clue how to do it. I have Google it and got some command to do that however they are not working. :(

Please help.

Thanks in Advance.

Gaurav

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