Re: Moving WSS2.0 to Another Server

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From: Mike Walsh (englantilainen_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/03/04


Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 12:09:02 +0300

Smigrate is not just for STS but is also *one* way of moving WSS sites.

Mike Walsh, Helsinki, Finland
WSS FAQ at wss.collutions.com
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"Warren" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I need to move my Windows SharePoint Services from one
> server to another (the second having a bigger hard
> drive). I would just burn an image, but management has
> decided that the name of the link needs to be changed
> (the server is, let's say, \\SHAREPOINT\XYZCOMPANY; it
> needs to be \\SHARE\NEWCOMPANY). Both of these servers
> are already running Windows 2003 Server. Can anyone let
> me know a sure-fire way to do this?
>
> I've tried two things:
>
> (1) Using the SMIGRATE utility, which seems to be only
> for STS1.0.
>
> (2) Trying the steps in Microsoft's knowledge base
> article number 825536, which I thought would work, but
> for some reason, in FrontPage 2003, the option of Tools -
> Server is grayed out.
>
> Thanks in advance for your helpfulness...



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