Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 Best Practices

Upgrading Customizations

In theory, this section actually discusses a pre-upgrade task that needs to be performed, but because of the importance of this topic coupled with the various decision points, we decided to address this topic in its own major section of the chapter.

During the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 time frame, different voices in the marketplace questioned whether customize SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and, if so, how to do it. Some were vocal about never customizing anything in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 or its sites; if any customizations were to be done, they should be accomplished through the modification of site definitions and never through the use of Office FrontPage 2003. At the other end of the spectrum were those who ...