RE: Upgrade from WSS to Sharepoint Portal

Kinda...

SharePoint Portal Server 2003 uses WSS as it's underlying engine... you basically get a portal, robust search, my sites, and a profile database (I'm ~really~ dumbing it down).

You won't be able to "upgrade" a WSS site -> SPS. However the WSS site will still exist and run just fine. You could always write something that would move data from the WSS lists -> SPS lists, but the security doesn't work the same in a portal.

I'm not 100% sure about this, but I think you might be able to backup your WSS site (assuming it's a top-level WSS site) and restore it INTO the SPS site directory via stsadm.exe.

-AC
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Is it possible to do an in place upgrade from WSS to Sharepoint Portal
Server 2003?

Dan Foxley


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Mike
Mon Mar 21 00:33:11 CST 2005

>You won't be able to "upgrade" a WSS >site -> SPS.

I disagree.

As I wrote there is a Microsoft paper on how to do this.

I am assuming admittedly that by upgrading a "site" the user meant upgrading
a server running WSS.

If all you want to do is move a site from a WSS installation to SPS 2003 all
you have to do is Save Site as Template and then use the saved template to
create a site in the WSS part of your SPS 2003 - but that isn't what I think
was being asked.

Mike Walsh, Helsinki, Finland


"AC" <swamplander@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:OIlt6DdLFHA.2736@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Kinda...
>
> SharePoint Portal Server 2003 uses WSS as it's underlying engine... you
> basically get a portal, robust search, my sites, and a profile database
> (I'm ~really~ dumbing it down).
>
> You won't be able to "upgrade" a WSS site -> SPS. However the WSS site
> will still exist and run just fine. You could always write something that
> would move data from the WSS lists -> SPS lists, but the security doesn't
> work the same in a portal.
>
> I'm not 100% sure about this, but I think you might be able to backup your
> WSS site (assuming it's a top-level WSS site) and restore it INTO the SPS
> site directory via stsadm.exe.
>
> -AC
> ?
> nntp://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices/
> Is it possible to do an in place upgrade from WSS to Sharepoint Portal
> Server 2003?
>
> Dan Foxley
>
>
> [microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices]
>

AC
Fri Mar 25 20:03:49 CST 2005

I interpreted the question differently... hence my answer was a little
off base.

-AC