Migrating Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) from Standalone to Farm Install

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re: Migrating Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) from Standalone to Farm Install

ryanj1 — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:28:18 GMT

Thanks for the great information Chris. I am currently using STSADM to backup our SSP. The search DB is included in that backup and I was wondering if there is an STSADM command that will allow me to back up only the SSP web application and not the DBs

Can that be done?

Thanks!

Ryan Johnson

re: Migrating Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) from Standalone to Farm Install

chrishe — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:58:13 GMT

Hi Ryan, can you clarify your question? Are you interested in not taking the Search DBs with you when you restore your SSP as specified in the searchdatabasename parameter?

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ryanj1 — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:08:33 GMT

Yes, I was wondering if it is an option to not backup and restore the search DB along with the SSP. I would like to restore the SSP and then just recrawl everything to recreate the search DB and index. I am just looking at options to save disk space if possible...

Will STSADM allow me to do this? Thanks...

re: Migrating Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) from Standalone to Farm Install

chrishe — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:56:31 GMT

Hi Ryan, if you are interested to re-index after restoring the SSP and not restore the old SearchDB you should be able to do the following:

1. create a empty database that will be the new Search DB

2. use the stsadm -restoressp command as above and point at the new Search DB

Your restored SSP should now be associated with the new clean Search DB and you should then be able to re-crawl.

Let me know if this doesn't work.

re: Migrating Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) from Standalone to Farm Install

jsconners72 — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:35:39 GMT

Chris,

Very interesting post. I work for a Gov't agency that wants to test MOSS 2007 but our security policy doesn't allow "single box" installation of the SQL 2005 Express and the web components. Is there a way to do a "basic" farm install separating the "free" SQL 2005 Express edition (with the 4GB limits lifted) onto another W2K3 SP1 machine and run the web front end server on another? We plan on purchasing the full 2005 license and it sounds like a "farm" scenario is appropriate here but I just know that if we demo the thing without plans to upgrade we will be painting ourselves into a corner...Thanks!

re: Migrating Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) from Standalone to Farm Install

chrishe — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:56:13 GMT

Hi jsconners,

The standalone install is also known as a 1-click install and installs/uses SQL Express on the same machine, I think what you are describing would require a small farm install. If you wanted to do a quick install with minimal config work to have a running server then standalone is best. If like you mentioned the security policy prevents you from doing this, you may need to go thru the farm configuration with a demo version of SQL Server. Check out the whitepaper on MOSS Server Farm deployments: http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/776589ed-aba4-47eb-8c4d-86905ac11a511033.mspx?mfr=true

re: Migrating Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) from Standalone to Farm Install

saefeldin — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:20:29 GMT

For sharepoint 2007 in both farms.

is there any changes in migrate farm to another farm ?

and in using the export and import, does it move the features in the old farm or no ??

same for central administration tools, can i backup and restore to another farm ? will the features come with me or no ??

re: Migrating Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) from Standalone to Farm Install

eliza — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:42:50 GMT

Hi,

I tried to make a backup and restore from an environment (prod)to other environment (acc), but the SSP restore doesn't work. On prod environment the search and timer services running on a system account (named: prodSA)but on acc account the search and timer services running on acc system account *(named: accSA).

The restore of web application was with success!

Can you help me please?

Thank you,

eliza

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panej — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:47:32 GMT

Will this work for WSS 3.0 standalone conversion to WSS 3.0 Farm? If not is this scenario possible?