Restoring v1 Site to v2 site via Smigrate 1

[ScottVinkle]

Hello all. I'm very new to this forum and to SharePoint in general. I'm a student at a summer placement in their systems testing department. - This is NOT a "Homework" problem - They have me working with SharePoint, trying to get SharePoint Team Services (v1) from a Win2000 Server PC to Windows SharePoint Services (v2) on a Win2003 Server PC.
The past week I've just been researching and reading all the guides I could find @ Microsoft.com, etc. I've come to the point where I'm conducting the back-up/restore portion of my testing. I've used smigrate.exe to backup the v1 website and it seemed to be successful. I used this command:

C:\smigrate.exe -w

http://domain/site

-f C:\backup.fwp

The site was a small test site that I created with some test data. This gave me a 839Kb FWP file. Now to my current problem.
I'm trying to restore the site to my Win2003 Server PC. I'm attempting to use smigrate.exe to do this but with no luck. I am using this command:

C:\smigrate.exe -r -w

http://domain/site2

-f C:\backup.fwp

The exect result (with "domain/site2" example):

C:\>smigrate.exe -r -w

http://domain/site2

-f C:\backup.fwp
18 May 2004 10:00:56 -0400 Site collection opened
18 May 2004 10:00:58 -0400 ERROR (possibly fatal):
ERROR: 6553678 The Web server at "

http://domain/site2"

does not appear to have Win
dows SharePoint Services installed.
18 May 2004 10:00:58 -0400 Site collection closed
C:\>

This seems quite odd to me as I do infact have Windows SharePoint Services installed. I'm not sure if this could be a SQL Server problem, a virtual server problem or application pool problem, as I've had issues with those things while installing onto the Win2003 Server PC. The whole virtual server/application pool thing is still confusing to me.

With all that said, I'd appreciate any feedback at all if you have some insight to this problem.
Thank you.

 

[Evilbart]

Hi ScottVinkle

i suggest your try SPin an SPout tools as Smigrate is for other reasons....
google for more info on these tools.....

extract of the file that comes with these tools:

The Microsoft® Office SharePoint™ Portal Server 2003 Document Library Migration Tools are a set of utility programs developed by Microsoft for migrating documents and associated descriptive information ("metadata") from SharePoint Portal Server Web Storage System–based document libraries to SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Microsoft SQL Server™ document libraries. The tools can export documents and associated descriptive information from SharePoint Portal Server 2001 document libraries as well as SharePoint Portal Server 2003 backward-compatible document libraries — both of which are based on Microsoft Web Storage System technology. The content exported by the tools can be imported into SharePoint Portal Server 2003 SQL Server document libraries that reside in a SharePoint Portal Server 2003 portal site, team site, My Site personal site, or SharePoint Portal Server 2003 portal area.
The two document library migration tools developed by Microsoft are Spout.exe and Spin.exe. Spout.exe, the Document Library Export Tool, is a Microsoft Windows® program that reads Web Storage System–based document libraries and exports (or outputs) the selected content as a collection of files in a format that is understood by the import program. Spin.exe, the Document Library Import Tool, is a Windows command-line program that reads the collection of files created by Spout.exe and adds the documents and associated descriptive information to the selected portal area, portal site, team site, or personal Web site on the server running SharePoint Portal Server 2003.

hope this helps getting through your summer placement

//Bart

 

[ScottVinkle]

Hi thanks for the quick reply.
I am aware that I'm not working with SharePoint Portal Servers while conducting this test migration. I'm working with the SharePoint Team Services and Windows SharePoint Services, which I believe do not necessarily involve the Portal Server software.
I'll check out these two utilities though.

 

[Evilbart]

ignore my previous answer, it was meant to be cutted and pasted in an email and not this forum.

I don't know if you've already tried this, but in case you haven't, try forcing authentication. You can find instructions on how to do this in the Windows SharePoint Services Administrator's Guide at

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a637eff6-8224-4b19-a6a4-3e33fa13d230.

Look for the section called "Migrating Sites across Domains" in the "Backup and Migrating - Migrating and Upgrading Web Sites" topic. Also, if you're going through a proxy server or another connection device that may not
support NTLM authentication, make sure the Basic authentication is enabled in the IIS virtual server on your server.

//Bart

 

[ScottVinkle]

The two PC's are on the same Domain.
I've looked over this guide many times, but I'll chek out the sections I didn't originally read over. Thanks.

 

[ScottVinkle]

Answer here.