Re: "downgrade" from SPS to WSS

Hi again,
Just wanted to thank both of ya'll for your advice. The migration worked
using the smigrate tool to first backup up the sub site on the existing SPS
server and then restoring it on the new WSS server. With regards to
preserving the permissions, it wasn't an issue for my case, because we needed
to create permissions in the new server from scratch anyway. Just to be sure
nothing messed up, I intentionally used the "-x" switch for smigrate so there
wouldn't be an attempt to transfer the old permissions into the new context.

One tip for other people who'd like to do the same is to make sure to create
a blank site first on the destination server by using the "Sites and
Workspaces" link on the Create page of your portal and then closing the
browser when asked for a template for the newly created site. You must do
this because, even specifying "Blank website" in the template selection step
won't allow you to do the migration.

Regards,
Yusuf

"Engelbert" wrote:

> Yes, I was uncertain too.
>
> But what I would try is doing smigrate of a WSS site in SPS 2003 and seeing
> if that loads correctly into standalone WSS. I know it works the other way,
> I've just never tried it that way. (The idea being that smigrate is less
> demanding than stsadm and thus might work where backup/restore doesn't)
>
> Of course all authentications; security are lost. But my assumption would be
> that as they are moving to a completely different location they'll be
> needing new authentication anyway.
>
> Engelbert
>
> "Gary A. Bushey [SPS MVP]" <bushey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:etvSk8I5FHA.2524@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Not sure if it is possible or not. Even though you are not using any of
> > the advanced features of SPS you are still using SPS and all the WSS sites
> > were created under SPS. You may be able to backup the individual WSS
> > Sites and restore although with the new server being on a different domain
> > I would guess your security would get screwed up.
> >
> > --
> > Gary A. Bushey
> > SPS MVP
> > bushey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > "yhasan" <yhasan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:483AEBC8-8A8A-44DC-B573-3C6C435E2EEB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Hi all,
> >> We currently have a portal running on one of our SharePoint Portal server
> >> boxes. Recently there has been a request to move this portal to one of
> >> our
> >> client's servers in their own domain, as opposed to ours (we are a small
> >> consulting company working within a bigger company). Due to liscensing
> >> issues, SPS cannot be installed on their boxes. They only have WSS on
> >> their
> >> machines.
> >>
> >> Now the question is what are the steps to migrate an SPS portal to a
> >> server
> >> running just WSS? The good news is that the portal DOES NOT use any of
> >> SPS's
> >> advanced features that are missing in WSS.
> >>
> >> If this is if at all possible, please let me know how.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Yusuf Hasan
> >
> >
>
>
>
.

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