Moving a site 1

[overDeveloper]

What is the recommended way to move a site from one server to another... I tried exporting a package in FrontPage, but the site did not transistion well, and does not look the same....

 

[MaxEd]

Use smigrate.exe.

-Laughter works miracles.

 

[Thomas2000]

If it is a toplevel site you can use stsadm.exe, then you preserve the user permissions, if it is a subsite you will have to use smigrate.exe as MaxEd says, but then it does not preserve the users and you will have to add them again.

There are step by step guides in the WSS sharePoint admin guide (if we are talking WSS v2)

Cheers,
Thomas

http://www.thompa.se

 

[MaxEd]

There are 3rd party software out there that will do that for you but it'll cost you a limb or 2.

-Laughter works miracles.

 

[citygov22]

Hmmm....Will this smigrate.exe tool work for me? We have ONE WSS top-level site and at least FIFTY subwebs off of it. (We were using the one top-level WSS site as the homepage to our employee intranet, and all the subwebs are for the departments and other stuff.)

Now that we're going to be using a Portal site as our interface, I need to convert most of the subwebs into top-level sites so that I can 'connect' them to the portal site. That way they'll have the 'Up to Portal Site' link in the corner instead of 'Up To Our Existing WSS Site That We're Using As A Homepage.'

Now, the catch is that everything is on one server...

 

[Thomas2000]

Then you will need to use smigrate.exe to be able to backup the individual subsites, then you need to add the users to the new site that you will migrate the old site to. This is because smigrate can't backup user permissions.

So create a blank site at the new location, stop the site creation process when you are about to chose the template for the site. Then you can use smigrate to "restore" the old site to this new location.

All this is described in the Windows SharePoint Services Administrators guide, so if you do not have it then see if you can download it from the Microsoft website.

Cheers,
Thomas

http://www.thompa.se