Microsoft® SharePoint™ 2003 Unleashed, Second Edition

Best Practices

• Review the sites and workspaces in the environment that is to be migrated and migrate only what is being used to the new environment to save time and resources.

• To gain greater acceptance of the new SharePoint 2003 environment, keep the results of the initial migration as close as possible to the original environment from an end-user perspective. Introduce new features gradually, after users have time to adapt.

• Prior to a SharePoint Team Services migration, do the following on the Team Services server:

   

  1.	Install the update for SharePoint Team Services v1.0.
  2.	Configure the Team Services site to be read-only.
  3.	Increase the paging file size if the site is large.

• Prior to restoring a Team Services site to Windows SharePoint Services, ...