Re: Moving WSS2.0 to Another Server

From: Todd Klindt (usenet_at_klindt.org)
Date: 07/06/04


Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 19:00:17 -0500

Go ahead and image the machine. Set up a host header for the new name. If
you really meant \\netbios name there is a Registry setting that will
register a secondary netbios name for a computer. The KB article was in
reference to printers, but I can't find it right now.

tk

if that's not an option, STSADM will back your root site up and restore it.
"Warren" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2469a01c45fd2$b96f8180$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> 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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