Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) 2002 are integrated into a common architecture in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. You can now access many tasks, such as customizing navigation, creating summary links, and scheduling deployments, through the user interface.
SharePoint Server 2007 is built upon Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, which is based upon Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0. As a result, you can also use functionality such as master pages, authentication providers, and navigation providers in SharePoint Server 2007.
If you are evaluating, planning, deploying, upgrading, or maintaining SharePoint Server 2007, look here to find IT content and readme documents.
Before you upgrade or migrate your site, read these best practices for writing code that is optimally reusable when updates, upgrades, or security updates are applied to a deployment.
Learn to use the CMS Assessment Tool to determine the level of work required to migrate your MCMS 2002 site.
Download this tool to assess and analyze the work required to migrate your MCMS 2002 site to SharePoint Server 2007.
Understand the changes, differences, and benefits of the MCMS APIs as implemented in SharePoint Server.
Use this guide in planning your migration to SharePoint 2007.
See how SharePoint Server 2007 merges the functionality of MCMS 2002 and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 together with new functionality.
Learn more about upgrading controls, authentication, workflows, output caching, and search, and about publishing directly from Microsoft Office Word.
Don't miss Part 2 of this step-by-step guide to upgrading an MCMS 2002 application to SharePoint Server 2007.
Learn about new features, tools, and resources that are available to help you migrate your sites.
Look at the major improvements WCM offers over MCMS.
The Content Migration APIs provide a simple but flexible solution for migrating content between Windows SharePoint Services Web sites.
See a list of the APIs that are deprecated in SharePoint Server 2007, because a new feature was introduced or a feature was enhanced.
See a list of the APIs that do not work or that were removed.
Learn about APIs changes.
Learn how SharePointPSSearch 2003 customizations are affected by the upgrade process.
If you are running Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and you want the functionality of SharePoint Server 2007, you can upgrade.
Download guidance and tools to help you upgrade customized Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 sites and site templates to function in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 environment.
Learn how to extend the process of upgrading sites that are heavily customized in Windows SharePoint Services from version 2 to version 3. Common customizations involve Web Parts, site definitions, or customizations made in Microsoft Office FrontPage.
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