RE: Migration from STS to WSS - discussion boards

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From: Jim Buyens (news_at_interlacken.com)
Date: 03/01/05


Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 10:05:03 -0800

For the most part, you're likely to lose security settings rather than data.
This is because WSS uses a much different security model than STS. So, after
the final conversion, you should plan on checking and updating the members of
each site.

If you haven't already, refer to:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/wss/2/all/adminguide/en-us/stsf12.mspx

Jim Buyens
Microsoft MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
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"jhawk235" wrote:

> I'm trying to find out if any issues have surfaced regarding discussion
> boards when using the smigrate utility to go from STS to WSS. Is anyone aware
> of any problems being encountered? I have a customer who is concerned about
> losing information during the migration process.
>
> Thanks in advance for any information.
> --
> WG



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