Hi,I have a SPS 2003 site and I want to move/migrate PART of the functionality in this site to my new MOSS 2007 environment. I have this document library that lives on the SPS 2003 site that I want to somehow backup and then restore on the MOSS 2007 site. How can I do this? I don't want to backup the whole SPS 2003 site and restore it because we are looking to make quite a few changes and don't wish to you that as our starting point. There must be a way to move just a doc library from SPS 2003 to MOSS 2007?Thanks,-Westside2008

You can store the library as template with content and restore it on MOSS 2007. I assume the backword compatibility. May be someone else can correct If I am wrong.--Madhur

Hi I can suggest you one way. Open the document library in explorer mode in SPS 2003 (this option is available at left hand side under Select a view) and then copy them. Then in MOSS open the doc libraryand under Actions you have "Open with Windows Explorer". Here you can paste the content. This way document can be migrated. Hope this helps. http://manish-sharepoint.blogspot.com/

Hi Madhur, I guess it may not work if the document library contains a huge data. It will throw error while saving it as template. Please let me know if you could find any other option. I really need the approach for it.Deeptyranjan

Deeptyranjan, If it is throwing error while saving it as a template then I suggest to save template without data. Then create the document library based on this template in your MOSS 2007 site. Then use explorer view to copy down the contents easily. I hope it will help. Thanks, Rahul

Deeptyranjan, If it is throwing error while saving it as a template then I suggest to save template without data. Then create the document library based on this template in your MOSS 2007 site. Then use explorer view to copy down the contents easily. I hope it will help. Thanks, Rahul

There is almost certainly going to be some manual work for this. Outside of the suggestions currently within this thread, I can think of two other approaches for you. SharePoint ListCopy move utility, which can be found here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/splistcp/ Attach a copy of the 2003 content database to a SharePoint 2007 instancve (VMWare, or staging environment for instance), do a attach update database then use STSADM to move the content. A useful link is this one: http://farhanfaiz.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/sharepoint-upgrade-database-migration/ Hope that helpsSteven Andrews | SharePoint Professional | http://www.twitter.com/backpackerd00d | https://baron72.wordpress.com/

Personally I would first copy the files over with explorer, afterwards the metadata in datasheet view. Do note: you'll lose the created by/modified/modified by and version metadata. A safer, but harder way would be to do a migration to a seperate server and then export/import that subset of your data from your staging farm to your production farm. Regards, JeroenMy blog on WSS / MOSS development is found at http://jebass.blogspot.com

I think in way of export import the ModifiedBy/CreatedBy metadata will be changed to the account you are using to do export import. Thanks, Rahul Rashu

I think in way of export import the ModifiedBy/CreatedBy metadata will be changed to the account you are using to do export import. Thanks, Rahul Rashu