[part 1] Upgrade Your Old Customized Templates from WSS2.0 to WSS3.0

  Read this before you start: [Customization] from Wss2 to WSS3

 

By now you know you need an upgrade file or mapping file..

keep in mind this is an expesive option to choose and somehow it might involve a lot or effort...

 

Goal:

A site upgrade definition provides a means to transform sites customized in the previous version of Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services so that they take advantage of features in the new version. An upgrade definition file maps the files and list data of one build or version to a subsequent build or version, as well as specifying additional items that should be placed within upgraded Web sites.

 

Why Develop one?

The aim here is to upgrade you customized templates from WSS2.0 to WSS3.0. and when i say customized, i mean either you created a customized definition files or you created a customized templates.

 

Lets Go Step By Step!

 Generaly, you need to :

- to have a customized site definition on Wss2 or a cutomized template

- create a new site definition on Wss3 based on the most related WSS3.0 template or definition to your custmized one.

- create an upgrade mapping file.

- run the config wizard

- migrated the site definition to 3.0

- do all modification I need

- All new functionalities works fine

- saved the template as .stp as Wss3 template

- registere the template in Wss3

 

i'll keep giving details on each one..

Recourses:

https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms439232.aspx

Comments

• Anonymous
  April 10, 2007
  hi, I m new to this wss3.0 . Could you plz explain the steps in elaborate way as it would be very useful to me. thanks..