So finaly i got a customer who asked me to do something i really didn’t know if it was possible.
Already been working on it for 2 days now and it seems that i have got it working.
Ok, so what was the wish of this customer:
I have a SharePoint 2003 32 bit single server dutch installation with a sql 2000 database. It has some custom webparts, some custom templates and sitescollections have some odd behaviours. Please transform this environment to a SharePoint 2007 environment 64 bit on windows 2008 servers, using sql 2008 as database server, configured as a small farm, using a UK installation with dutch language packs.
Most of the wishes can be done separately, but all together, i was not sure if this was going to work.
furthermore, did i mention that the database was 50Gb 
Toplevel the next steps are taken
- upgrade SharePoint 2003 to sp2
- Run prescan tool
- backup database(s)
- install Sharepoint 2007
- install all needed language packs
- restore sql backup
- install templates
- copy images (from images folder in 12-hive)
- use stsadm with addcontentdb option
- manually correct all issues (some migrated lists, templates and functionality that was no longer working)
Et voila, we had over 90% working again.
So the next days i will be fine-tuning the installation, creating scripts, making an installation manual, because …. we have to do it all ones more .
Never a dull day in SharePoint land.
eric
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