Microsoft® SharePoint™ 2003 Unleashed, Second Edition

Developing the Migration Strategy

Before migrating from SharePoint 2001 technology to SharePoint 2003 technology, a migration strategy needs to be developed that identifies the sites and workspaces that will be migrated, what to do about elements that cannot be migrated, and the approach that will be taken with regard to how the migration will actually take place.

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SharePoint 2003 technologies must be installed on a server running Microsoft Windows Server 2003. Therefore, a migration to SharePoint 2003 also involves a migration to Microsoft Windows Server 2003. Refer to Chapter 6, “Installing SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services,” for additional information about the process of installing Windows Server 2003 and preparing ...