Complete guide for gradual migration from SPS to MOSS including studying, planing, installing, migrating and best practicies.

Written by KbNk

Monday, 14 September 2009 13:00

Complete guide for gradual migration from SPS to MOSS including studying, planing, installing, migrating and best practicies.
If you think i am going to write complete guide that is already written milion times on internet, you are wrong i will post here links for good - already written - articles. Steps reccommendations and so on. Everything in one place, so you can get pretty good overview about installation and configuration.

So here are steps

1. Before you event start, and you have no knowledge about MOSS, or just very few. Read this perfect book about MOSS and WSS3.0

Beginning SharePoint 2007 Administration: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
by Göran Husman

ISBN: 978-0-470-12529-8; Paperback; June 2007; 600 pages

2. After you read this book :) i reccommend at least have a look on planning at least here : http://dirkvandenberghe.com/archive/2007/11/12/some-facts-you-need-to-be-aware-of-when-planning-implementing-moss.aspx its very short and starting point what to think about and so.

3. When you are ready and you know what you really want to do, you and you are beginer yet/or never installed MOSS, then you go to http://geekswithblogs.net/emanish/archive/2006/09/12/90979.aspx where you can see nice step by step installation guide.

4. After MOSS binaries are installed, before you run Configuration Wizard, and you plan to install language packs, here is short summary in which order to install them.
http://dirkvandenberghe.com/archive/2009/02/23/short-overview-of-moss-new-installation-order-with-language-packs.aspx

5. If this doesnt suits you, and you want go directly to upgrade part, read this one : http://www.cjvandyk.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=107 it is completely Step-by-step guide.

6. After you are installed, and migrated according to pages above, you can read some short best practicies overview here: http://dirkvandenberghe.com/archive/2007/10/22/best-practices-and-more-information-for-moss-2007.aspx

and also

7. lessons learned during one of many upgrades of my coleague Dirk Van den Berghe: http://dirkvandenberghe.com/archive/2009/05/10/lessons-learned-in-my-last-sps-to-moss-migration-project-using-gradual-approach.aspx

I hope you found here some usefull information in one place. If you have any other suggestion let me know in comments and i will try to correct/update the article.

cheers