Re: Migrating Existing Front Page Site

Hi Josnoe -

Yes, you can use smigrate to backup FPSE 2002, STS v1, and WSS v2 sites, and
then restore them to WSS v2 sites. Smigrate cannot backup or restore SPS
2001 or SPS 2003 portal "areas." However, it can backup and restore WSS v2
sites in SPS 2003.

- Troy Starr [MSFT]


"Josnoe" <Josnoe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:9FFD7F4C-A536-44C9-887D-D10737902B06@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> so I can use smigrate for other than V1 migrations? Can I use this if I am
> not using the portal? I am wanting to migrate from a flat file server to
> V2
> team services, we do not have a portal at this new contract I have just
> started. I have had so much trouble trying to work with spin and spout,
> that I have given up with that method. J
>
> "Troy Starr [MSFT]" wrote:
>
>> Hi folks -
>>
>> Smigrate can also backup FPSE 2002 sites and restore them to WSS v2.
>> However, it can't backup FPSE 2000 sites. See the "Migrating Sites
>> Hosted
>> on Servers Running FrontPage Server Extensions 2002" section at
>> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/office/office2003/maintain/bureswss.mspx
>> for more details.
>>
>> - Troy Starr [MSFT]
>> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
>> rights.
>>
>>
>> "Mike Walsh" <englantilainen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:eTan1txxFHA.3312@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > As far as I know there are no routines for migrating the content of
>> > FP-based sites to WSS. I also haven't seen any papers on this.
>> >
>> > There is a migration method from SharePoint Team Services to WSS but
>> > STS
>> > is based on a super-set of FPSE not the standard set used by FP-based
>> > sites.
>> >
>> > Mike Walsh, Helsinki, Finland
>> > WSS FAQ at http://wss.collutions.com
>> > Please reply to the newsgroup
>> >
>> > "Heidebrink" <Heidebrink@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> > news:61C0001D-D805-45F3-AC68-C70284782F3F@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >> Hello,
>> >>
>> >> We have an existing web site developed using Front Page. We are
>> >> wanting
>> >> to
>> >> migrate all content from this existing site into Sharepoint and to
>> >> start
>> >> to
>> >> empower our end users so that they can start posting thier own content
>> >> as
>> >> opposed to making requests to IT dept. Are there any how-tos, best
>> >> practices, etc that anyone can point me to?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks.


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