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date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:30:53 -0700 (PDT),
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moving document libraries from WSS 2.0 to MOSS 2007: how?
Hi,
I have been tasked with creating a MOSS 2007 site that centralizes
department information that is now scattered on file shares, plain old
HTML pages, and some WSS 2.0 sites. The WSS 2.0 sites run on a
different web server, but it is in the same domain.
There are some document libraries on the old WSS sites (but not all of
them) that I would like to "migrate" to the MOSS site. It is not
feasible to download all individual documents and upload them again to
the new site. First because of the large number, and second because I
need to keep the user and modification date intact. If I just upload,
they will all be on my name on today.
So how can I achieve this goal? Also, I am not an administrator on
either of the WSS/MOSS servers, I am just the "owner" of a MOSS site.
TIA,
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Amedee
date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:30:53 -0700 (PDT)
author: Amedee Van Gasse
Re: moving document libraries from WSS 2.0 to MOSS 2007: how?
Save the Document Libraries as template and upload that template on
the new server. Create new document library based on that template
this is how you can acheive your goal.
On Aug 20, 7:30 am, Amedee Van Gasse
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been tasked with creating a MOSS 2007 site that centralizes
> department information that is now scattered on file shares, plain old
> HTML pages, and some WSS 2.0 sites. The WSS 2.0 sites run on a
> different web server, but it is in the same domain.
>
> There are some document libraries on the old WSS sites (but not all of
> them) that I would like to "migrate" to the MOSS site. It is not
> feasible to download all individual documents and upload them again to
> the new site. First because of the large number, and second because I
> need to keep the user and modification date intact. If I just upload,
> they will all be on my name on today.
>
> So how can I achieve this goal? Also, I am not an administrator on
> either of the WSS/MOSS servers, I am just the "owner" of a MOSS site.
>
> TIA,
>
> --
> Amedee
date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:12:00 -0700 (PDT)
author: unknown
Re: moving document libraries from WSS 2.0 to MOSS 2007: how?
(Rather than posting to both these newsgroups in order to cover both WSS
2.0 and MOSS, post to a single newsgroup that deals with both products
such as .setup_and_administration.)
Unfortunately you've received bad advice as the first replier has
presumably not seen that you want to moving your document libraries from
WSS **2.0** and has given you an answer for WSS *3.0*.
You can not use WSS 2.0 templates in a v3 (WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007)
SharePoint site.
What you can do is upgrade your WSS 2.0 system to WSS 3.0 following one
of the standard upgrade methods - one of which allows you to create a
new (in your case, temporary) copy of WSS 3.0 in a second server - and
then use Save Library as Template. As this template is then a v3
template, it can be uploaded to the template gallery in MOSS 2007 and
then is available in the list when you create a Document Library there.
If you don't want to do that, it is possible to transfer the contents of
a document library manually.
Create in your WSS 2.0 doc lib a view containing all columns that can be
transfered in this way (not the date / person fields such as
Modified/Modified By and not the complex fields like lookup). Have the
file name in the first column and sort on that column.
Now create an identical document library in MOSS 2007 with an identical
view.
Then:
1. With both sites set to Explorer View, copy across the files from the
WSS 2.0 doc lib to the MOSS 2007 doc lib.
2. With that done; open both files in the Datasheet View version of the
View you have created. The MOSS 2007 view will only have values in the
first column. Copy the other cells of the WSS 2.0 version to the MOSS
2007 version.
Done.
Note that in addition to the complex columns/fields like Lookup; and
Calculated; it is impossible to bulk transfer the values of a multi-line
text field. If you have those you will need to move their contents one
cell at a time.
Mike Walsh
WSS FAQ http://www.wssfaq.com / wss.collutions.com
I regret that private e-mail questions will not be answered
Amedee Van Gasse wrote:
> On 20 aug, 22:12, mianh...@gmail.com wrote:
>> Save the Document Libraries as template and upload that template on
>> the new server. Create new document library based on that template
>> this is how you can acheive your goal.
>
> I downloaded the template from the old site and uploaded it to the new
> site, but now you lost me.
> How can I actually create a new document library based on this
> template?
> And when I'm done, can I delete the template while still keeping the
> document library based on the template?
>
> TIA,
>
> Amedee
date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:37:10 +0300
author: Mike Walsh
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