Re: Going to Portal Server 2003 from SharePoint Services 2003

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I believe this is the link that Manfred mentioned

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/office/sps2003/deploy/inwsssps.mspx

"Manfred" wrote:

> There is a MS paper (KB article?) on upgrading from WSS to SPS 2003 because
> it is not a simple matter of installing SPS 2003 on top of an existing WSS
> site.
>
> So while it is correct that SPS is in effect only a layer above WSS,
> upgrading is not as simple as Ron might have assumed from your message.
>
> I suggest he tracks down the MS paper.
>
> Manfred
>
> "Mike Linster" <MikeLinster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:08EE14BB-D930-460D-8078-4766551E11C8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Ron, I think there is some confusion about what is SharePoint Services and
> > SharePoint Portal Server. Since you are already running SharePoint
> > Services
> > (Hopefully on SQL) when you install SharePoint Portal Server what you are
> > in
> > essence doing is adding a top layer that will live on top of your already
> > created sites. It will give you some additional functionality and you may
> > need to add in another virtual server to run SPS on but you should be fine
> > with your site. However just to make completely sure you don't lose
> > anything
> > back up the site using the backup tools that way if you do loose something
> > you can easily restore your site. I usually make the site a template that
> > contains the data in it.
> >
> > HTH
> > Mike
> >
> > "Capt_Ron" wrote:
> >
> >> I have a site configured and running via SharePoint Services 2003. I was
> >> wondering if I install Portal Server 2003 will I have to rebuild
> >> everything
> >> or will the existing sites be converted?
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> Ron.
>
>
>
.



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