How do I split up a single WSS site into many WSS sites?

Hi,

I'm running an upgrade project to upgrade from WSS 2.0 to WSS 3.0, and
as part of it I've been asked to split a single site into many smaller
ones.

The setup at the moment is we've got (amongst other ones) a Virtual
Server with one site (with loads and loads of subsites) of 40GB (!) in
one database which I would like to have on WSS 3.0 in at least two web
applications with many top-level sites in each.

Is there a tool for doing this? I've looked at WSS_Split, but that
seems to be for moving top-level sites between content databases.

The only way I can think of doing it at the moment is to manually move
all the data to a new structure, which would be a little labourious!

Thanks in advance,
Tom.

Laurent
Mon May 14 22:29:27 CDT 2007

Hi tommyk,

Sorry but I don't know any tools to help you doing this but, great tools
idea !!
--

Laurent Cotton
www.bewise.fr


"tommyk" <tom.kivlin@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1179152898.408552.245100@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
> Hi,
>
> I'm running an upgrade project to upgrade from WSS 2.0 to WSS 3.0, and
> as part of it I've been asked to split a single site into many smaller
> ones.
>
> The setup at the moment is we've got (amongst other ones) a Virtual
> Server with one site (with loads and loads of subsites) of 40GB (!) in
> one database which I would like to have on WSS 3.0 in at least two web
> applications with many top-level sites in each.
>
> Is there a tool for doing this? I've looked at WSS_Split, but that
> seems to be for moving top-level sites between content databases.
>
> The only way I can think of doing it at the moment is to manually move
> all the data to a new structure, which would be a little labourious!
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Tom.
>

Jon
Tue May 15 14:12:00 CDT 2007



"tommyk" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm running an upgrade project to upgrade from WSS 2.0 to WSS 3.0, and
> as part of it I've been asked to split a single site into many smaller
> ones.
>
> The setup at the moment is we've got (amongst other ones) a Virtual
> Server with one site (with loads and loads of subsites) of 40GB (!) in
> one database which I would like to have on WSS 3.0 in at least two web
> applications with many top-level sites in each.
>
> Is there a tool for doing this? I've looked at WSS_Split, but that
> seems to be for moving top-level sites between content databases.
>
> The only way I can think of doing it at the moment is to manually move
> all the data to a new structure, which would be a little labourious!
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Tom.
>

Hi Tom,

It is actually easy to do. I don't know how much you have worked with the
WSS3, and you may need to have the full blown portal to be able to do it
with, but under "Site Actions -> Manage Site Content & Structure" it is
really easy to move sites around. It may get annoying with more than a
handful but it does work.