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SharePoint: Restoring v1 Site to v2 site via Smigrate
Hello all. I'm very new to this forum and to SharePoint in general. I'm a student at a summer placement in their systems testing department. They have me working with SharePoint, trying to get SharePoint Team Services (v1) from a Win2000 Server PC to Windows SharePoint Services (v2) on a Win2003 Server PC.
The past week I've just been researching and reading all the guides I could find @ Microsoft.com, etc. I've come to the point where I'm conducting the back-up/restore portion of my testing. I've used smigrate.exe to backup the v1 website and it seemed to be successful. I used this command:
C:\smigrate.exe -w http://domain/site -f C:\backup.fwp
The site was a small test site that I created with some test data. This gave me a 839Kb FWP file. Now to my current problem.
I'm trying to restore the site to my Win2003 Server PC. I'm attempting to use smigrate.exe to do this but with no luck. I am using this command:
C:\smigrate.exe -r -w http://domain/site2 -f C:\backup.fwp
The exect result (with "domain/site2" example):
C:\>smigrate.exe -r -w http://domain/site2 -f C:\backup.fwp
18 May 2004 10:00:56 -0400 Site collection opened
18 May 2004 10:00:58 -0400 ERROR (possibly fatal):
ERROR: 6553678 The Web server at "http://domain/site2" does not appear to have Win
dows SharePoint Services installed.
18 May 2004 10:00:58 -0400 Site collection closed
C:\>
This seems quite odd to me as I do infact have Windows SharePoint Services installed. I'm not sure if this could be a SQL Server problem, a virtual server problem or application pool problem, as I've had issues with those things while installing onto the Win2003 Server PC. The whole virtual server/application pool thing is still confusing to me.
With all that said, I'd appreciate any feedback at all if you have some insight to this problem.
Thank you.
The past week I've just been researching and reading all the guides I could find @ Microsoft.com, etc. I've come to the point where I'm conducting the back-up/restore portion of my testing. I've used smigrate.exe to backup the v1 website and it seemed to be successful. I used this command:
C:\smigrate.exe -w http://domain/site -f C:\backup.fwp
The site was a small test site that I created with some test data. This gave me a 839Kb FWP file. Now to my current problem.
I'm trying to restore the site to my Win2003 Server PC. I'm attempting to use smigrate.exe to do this but with no luck. I am using this command:
C:\smigrate.exe -r -w http://domain/site2 -f C:\backup.fwp
The exect result (with "domain/site2" example):
C:\>smigrate.exe -r -w http://domain/site2 -f C:\backup.fwp
18 May 2004 10:00:56 -0400 Site collection opened
18 May 2004 10:00:58 -0400 ERROR (possibly fatal):
ERROR: 6553678 The Web server at "http://domain/site2" does not appear to have Win
dows SharePoint Services installed.
18 May 2004 10:00:58 -0400 Site collection closed
C:\>
This seems quite odd to me as I do infact have Windows SharePoint Services installed. I'm not sure if this could be a SQL Server problem, a virtual server problem or application pool problem, as I've had issues with those things while installing onto the Win2003 Server PC. The whole virtual server/application pool thing is still confusing to me.
With all that said, I'd appreciate any feedback at all if you have some insight to this problem.
Thank you.
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I found the MS article on this new problem ( http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;823287 ). I read it over and I think I fixed the error. I tried to access the site again and it prompted me for a user name and password. I put in what I thought should be the correct user and pass, only to recive a "401 - You are not authorized to view this page". Would you know which set of username and password I'm supposed to put in? Also, why is it prompting me at all? Maybe I don't have the proper permissions set somewhere.
On another note, I attempted to restore the test site via smigrate. This time it was successful, except that I can't view it.
I'll do some more research and see what I can come up with.
On another note, I attempted to restore the test site via smigrate. This time it was successful, except that I can't view it.
I'll do some more research and see what I can come up with.
When you use smigrate it strips all the user security details from the site.
So when you wnat to log in you have to login as teh site owner as specified when creating the top level site:
Go To Sharepoint Central Administration
Click Create Top Level Website.
Click into the "Virtual Server" which should already be setup from installtion and configuration
Enter the url for the new site - http://mydomain/sharepoint
Modify any other options as required
One of options you need to add in this screen is the Site administrator.
This is the username you should log into sharepoint as, you would then be able to add or remove and other usernames as required.
So when you wnat to log in you have to login as teh site owner as specified when creating the top level site:
Go To Sharepoint Central Administration
Click Create Top Level Website.
Click into the "Virtual Server" which should already be setup from installtion and configuration
Enter the url for the new site - http://mydomain/sharepoint
Modify any other options as required
One of options you need to add in this screen is the Site administrator.
This is the username you should log into sharepoint as, you would then be able to add or remove and other usernames as required.
Also in regards to your last comments:
Quote "On another note, I attempted to restore the test site via smigrate. This time it was successful, except that I can't view it.
I'll do some more research and see what I can come up with."
What error message appears when you try to connect.
Quote "On another note, I attempted to restore the test site via smigrate. This time it was successful, except that I can't view it.
I'll do some more research and see what I can come up with."
What error message appears when you try to connect.
ASKER
Hmm, now this is interesting. I went to Central Administration > Configure Virtual Server settings > Virtual Server General Settings > Web Page Security Violation. I'm not quite sure what this is, but I set Web Page Security Violation to 'Off'. I can now view my newly migrated Windows SharePoint Services web site!
Is it a bad thing that I turned this off? It seems like everything was migrated fine, except for the things mentioned in the many guides that I've read.
I'll give you the points after my Mentor returns from his break tommrow and varifies that I'v edone this correctly, etc. If not, I'll give them to you anyway :-P
Thanks!
Is it a bad thing that I turned this off? It seems like everything was migrated fine, except for the things mentioned in the many guides that I've read.
I'll give you the points after my Mentor returns from his break tommrow and varifies that I'v edone this correctly, etc. If not, I'll give them to you anyway :-P
Thanks!
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I've read about this prodecure before and have attempted exactly this. I've created a top level site at the root (http://domain) with no template, but when I tried to view the site, it returned "Service Unavailable".
I did some research and found the MS article on this error ( http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;823552 ). I read the instuctions on how to fix this error several times to make sure I understand, followed through, and fixed the error.
Now when I access the site I get "cannot connect to the configuration database". This must mean that there is something wrong with my SQL Server settings, yes? I'll try and correct this error and report back when I am successful.
BTW, what should I see when the site is actually working, with no template? I'm assuming a blank white screen.