Is it possible to find an installer of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with SP2 / Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 with SP2?

Question

Hello everyone,

One of my customers is trying to migrate an old WSS 3.0 SP1 server to Office 365 ( better late than never :) ).

Unfortunately, he never added the SP2 on this server and he doesn't have an installer. We tried to add the SP2 from "Microsoft Update Catalog" but with no effect on this server.

A SP2010 farm was created to migrate the site collections with the SharePoint Migration Tool. However, the SP2 is required to upgrade the content databases to SP2010.

We also tried to use a tool like ShareGate but the size of the sites collections is to important with a big impact in term of delay. My customer don't want to buy a specific tool for a "one shot".

Does someone know if it's possible to download an installer of WSS 3.0 with SP2 (or SharePoint 2007 with SP2) ? I found a lot of broken link because of this old version.

Also, do you think it could be possible to export a WSS 3.0 SP1 site collection and import it directly in SP2010 with Powershell command (I mean especially because of the missing SP2 and the size > 70GB) ?

Thank you !

Answer 1

@JOHAN GUENAOUI ,

The short answer is no, SharePoint 2007 has reached end of support on October 10, 2017.

And the official installer for the WSS 3.0 with SP2 link is out of date, we can't test powershell as we don't have a SharePoint 2007 SP1 environment.

We recommend that you use Microsoft 365 directly in this case.

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Answer 2

Thank you @JulieWang-MSFT !
Unfortunately, I can't propose to my customer to use directly Microsoft 365.
Indeed, the data stored in WSS are to important to be lost or transferred manually.

I found a WSS 3.0 installer and the the CAB file of the SP3. I will try to create a fresh install of the environment from these elements.

Thus, I will try to test the 2 options:

• Import the databases in to WSS with SP3.
• Import a site collection with Powershell

Thank you