Re: Frustrations trying to migrate current Sharepoint and Intranet site

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This is impossible.

Windows SharePoint Services will not run on a Win 2000 Server.

Mike Walsh, Helsinki, Finland
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"XxLicherxX" <goldhors64@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I am new to this, so I am hoping someone out there can tell me what I
> keep doing wrong. Currently I have a server running Windows 2000 that
> has Sharepoint services running on it. The server also has hosts and
> Intranet. I beleive the two sites are connected with eachother for the
> purposes of using lists.
>
> Looking in IIS on the Windows 2000 Server lists the following websites:
>
> Default Website (Which happens to be the Intranet)
> Home Directory = "C:\Inetpub\wwwroot"
> Microsoft Sharepoint Search Proxy (????)
> Microsoft Sharepoint Administration (I beleive to be Sharepoint)
> Home Directory = C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web
> Server Extensions\50\isapi\_vti_adm
>
> I want to move this to a new Server running Windows 2003 Standard. The
> first try, I moved the files used by intranet to the new server and
> created a website in IIS, then installed Frontpage Server Extensions.
> Everything worked properly except for the lists (I assumed the lists
> weren't working, because there was no WSS installed)
>
> I installed WSS, which made another website in IIS for Sharepoint. This
> is where everything goes to crap. Upon opening IE and typing
> http://servername, I get our intranet's homepage, except the formatting
> is messed up, and the links that were working before all go to 404 not
> found pages, even though these sites have not been deleted or moved.
> (verified by using Windows Explorer) I also noticed that this is called
> Default.aspx, when the homepage before WSS was installed was called
> Default.htm.
>
> ----
> On my second attempt, I deleted all websites listed in IIS, uninstalled
> WSS and Frontpage Server Extensions. Re-installed WSS, got the same
> messed up homepage for the intranet (Despite not creating a website for
> the intranet yet) Created a website in IIS for the intranet and
> reinstalled Frontpage Server Extensions. I still get the same problem.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>


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