Understanding the Two-Part Migration Process

The migration of a Content Management Server Web site to SharePoint Server 2007 is unlike the upgrade of Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or a SharePoint Portal Server 2003 site to SharePoint Server 2007 in that an extra step is required. Migrating a Content Management Server Web site involves two very distinct phases: content migration and code migration. This additional step—code migration—is required because any custom code in a Content Management Server Web site has been written against the Publishing API to interact with the Content Management Server Content Repository. SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services use a completely different storage mechanism ...

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