Scenario: A Sharepoint stand-alone (Basic Install with SQL Express) environment needs to be moved from a 32 bit server to a 64 bit server. The orignal installation is done from a Swedish installer while the new installation is done from a english installation.
This is what worked for me:
- Install Win Server 2003 64 bit. I had to use a Dell CD to manage to install on the RAID setup.
- Install MOSS 2007 English from CD (Install from a downloaded copy did not work, the config wzard hung)
- Choose basic installation
- Run the config wizard
- Download language pack (.img opens with WinRAR)
- Install language pack (make sure it is the right one, swedish, 64 bit, moss 2007 etc.)
- Run the config wizard again
- Run Microsoft Update. Make sure to get the latest SP updates. At least newer than the environmnet your moving from.
- Delete the site collection via Central Adminstration and create a new one with the right language pack. Use the same template as the site you want to move.
- You can check what template was used by creating a aspx site. Google “determine site template”
- In my case the site template used was now deprecated. My solution was to create a custom site template, upload it to the created site and create is as an subsite. However, I got “File not found”-error on the new site.
- At this point, i used STSADM to make a backup of the original site
- Restored the backup to the faulting subsite using STSADM
- Voila, an exact copy was now up and running on the new server!
- It did bring up a login dialog when browsing on the local server, but not browsing from a arbitrary client (or other server).
- Added a hostname “temp” and created a DNS A record “temp@domain.com” pointing to the IP adress of the new server.
