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Section:	II
SubSection:	11
Number:	1
Title:	How do I transfer an existing STS site to another server?
Body:	You should use the Migration Tool that comes with the Office XP SP1. For migration to work correctly you will need to have installed Ofice XP Service Pack 1 on the server you will be publishing to AND the Office XP Service Pack 1 on the workstation you are using as a client to your existing STS server. You DO NOT need to install the Office XP server Pack 1 on your present server (though this might be a good idea anyway). Open any STS Web in FrontPage 2002. Select "Publish web" from the file menu and publish it to your destination server". Microsoft have now (June 2002) come up with an Assistance Center article on Publishing a Web at: http://office.microsoft.com/assistance/2002/articles/fpCopyLists.aspx In most cases this is the method that will be most suitable to you. It does however seem that people who have made many changes to the original templates may need to consider the manual method of migration instead. Consider the following warning about using "Publish Web" that Dustin Miller made in the newsgroup. "It is VERY important to note that when migrating using Publish you'll lose some important data. All lists become custom lists with generic icons. You'll have to go into the database to fix this. If you've created any custom templates and linked them to your ONET.XML, the existing lists are moved but the additional templates used to create them are not. If you're using your own code to interact with the database, be aware that ALL the list types (except doclibs and discussions) will revert to sp_servertemplate=100 (custom list). Because of these shortcomings, if you've changed ANYTHING in the root XML files, I recommend Microsoft's manual migration approach." This manual migration approach is at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/TechNet/prodtechnol/sharepnt/deploy/spmigrat.asp
Link:	http://office.microsoft.com/assistance/2002/articles/fpCopyLists.aspx
Q:	11.1 - How do I transfer an existing STS site to another server?
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Created at 5/27/2005 6:56 PM by Jim Last modified at 5/27/2005 7:02 PM by Jim