Re: Move WSS 2.0 to a new server

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I'd upgrade the old server to WSS 3.0 and then move it.

That way you have more options including only transferring some content rather than the whole site.

Mike Walsh
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George Schneider wrote:
I have our current WSS 2.0 server on a sever name server1. Thes ite is called server1:1080. I want to move this to a new server I just bought since the old server is about t be taken offline and retired. How cna I best accomplish this? The curren ws 2.0 runs on a sql 2000 server. The new server I want to use the internalsql database since the plan is to after the move to the newe server to upgrade to wss 3.0.
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