Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Recipe for Moving a WSS Site to Its MOSS Site Collection

I recently had to move a bunch of WSS Sites to individual MOSS Site Collections, here is the recipe I used:
  1. Backup MOSS - create a snapshot to rollback to if necessary
  2. Export old WSS Site
    1. stsadm -o export -url http://OldWSSSiteCollection/OldSite -filename C:\Temp\Exports\Sites\OldSite.bak -overwrite -includeusersecurity -haltonfatalerror -versions 4 -nofilecompression
  3. Manually create the new MOSS Site Collection. Keep in mind it must use the same template as the original site. So if your original Site used the Blank template, then you must use the Blank template.
  4. Import old WSS Site into new MOSS Site Collection
    1. stsadm -o import -url http://NewMOSSnoblepoint/sites/NewSite -filename D:\MOSS Backup\Exports\Sites\OldSite.bak -includeusersecurity -haltonfatalerror -updateversions 2 -nofilecompression
  5. Test Site for navigation and content
  6. Change Top Site link
  7. Fix any workflow issues
NOTE: Alerts have to be recreated after this process.

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