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Small Business Server 2008 - Installation, Migration, and Configuration

By : David Overton
Book Image

Small Business Server 2008 - Installation, Migration, and Configuration

By: David Overton

Overview of this book

Small Businesses need to capitalize on the investments they make in IT to drive the business forward. SBS 2008 is uniquely positioned to deliver, but a poor implementation becomes a hindrance rather than a benefit to your business. Well implemented solutions enable your business to appear larger, yet more dynamic than many enterprises. It's easy to get Small Business Server 2008 up and running when you've got this book to hand. It helps you in a clear and friendly manner to understand how to implement SBS 2008 inside your business in a way that matches your business needs. The author's experience enables him to share a tried and tested path to deliver the business benefits without becoming bogged down in unnecessary details that are not relevant to small businesses. SBS 2008 is a fantastic investment for Small Businesses to make towards a well managed and highly functional IT solution in their business. This book is the culmination of many years advising small business owners and consultants on the recommend, tried and tested path to implement small business technology from Microsoft. Through this book you will gain an understanding of the features you can choose to use and then how to securely implement the server to deliver them. It will guide you through the installation and configuration process with the help of step-by-step instructions and plentiful screenshots. It will also explain how you can benefit from the collaboration tools based on SharePoint and how you can protect all your business data with a back-up process that covers anything from deleted files to a fire in the office. Imagine how great you'll feel when your Small Business Server 2008 is ready and working, and you can get back to surfing the Internet!
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Small Business Server 2008 Installation, Migration, and Configuration
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Chapter 7. Migrating the CompanyWeb SharePoint Site

This chapter covers the migration of data in the CompanyWeb—http://CompanyWeb, a Windows SharePoint Site from SBS 2003 to a site called OldCompanyWeb on SBS 2008. If you have no data stored in the SBS 2003 SharePoint site, then you do not need to carry out this task. If you have other SharePoint v2 sites on your SBS 2003 system, then the same process and procedure can be repeated for the other sites with care taken to identify the databases and site names.

SBS 2008 ships with Windows SharePoint v3, which is different enough to stop a simple import of data from the Windows SharePoint v2 site that is hosted on SBS 2003. For that reason, the recommended approach is to have two sites and to advise the users to utilize the new site going forward, but to retain data in the old site too. Should it be desired, the data and documents can be copied between the sites once the migration is completed.

This involves steps on both the SBS 2003 and SBS 2008...