How to upgrade Sites built on custom site definitions not available in MOSS?
Category: Common Problems faced during Upgrade from SPS2003 to MOSS2007
Problem/ Scenario: We are doing Gradual Upgrade approach for upgrading SPS 2003 to SharePoint 2007. The upgrade fails in between as the sites are made out of custom site definition which is not available in sharepoint 2007.
Cause: For the upgrade,custom site definition has to be there at the source as well as the destination. Upgrade fails if it is not there. In our case, our sites were built on 'STSCLIENTITSITES' custom site definition which was not present in MOSS. So the upgrade fails.
Solution:
Make a copy of the site definitiona from which the custom site definition was made. Rename it to 'STSCLIENTITSITES' or the custom site definition name. The template ID in the definition should match the template ID in STSCLIENTITSITES.
Now run the gradual upgrade.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
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