Moving Project Server 2003 to New Server

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Charles Simpson

Hello Everyone!

Here is what we have:

Web Server: Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 SP2, Project Server 2003 SP2a
Database Server: SQL Server 2005 SP2

Here is what I need to do:

Build a new Web Server for just Project Server 2003 SP2 and move all Project
Server functionality from the previous Web Server to this new one. Keeping
the same database server. Not messing up the existing SharePoint sites on
the old Web Server that are not a part of Project Server (different site
collection).

So ... with keeping the same database server, how do I move Project Server
Web functionality to a new server? I do not want Project Server to use the
content or config database of the old SharePoint Web server ... but ... i do
want it to use the same Database server to store its databases.

Thanks!
 
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Amy

Charles,

i'm not sure if this helps, but I did something very similar just today with
Project Server 2007. I made a backup copy of the sql databases just in
case, and then on the new server, I did everything that I would do for
creating a brand new sharepoint and project server implementation and then I
re-created\provisioned a project web access site and then I just pointed it
to the existing databases on my sql server and everything was just fine.
And like I said, it worked in Project server 2007, and I cant imagine it
being very different for Project Server 2003.

Best regards

Amy
 
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Charles Simpson

Thanks Amy

I don't think that I can keep the same databases because:

1. The SharePoint configuration database contains the stand-alone
sharepoint sites configuration and the Project Workspaces sites configuration.
2. The SharePoint content database contains both the stand-alone sharepoint
site contents and the Project Workspace sites content.

My goal here is to "decouple" Project Server and its Workspaces to be
separate from our stand-alone SharePoint site collections so that I can
upgrade the stand-alone SharePoint to 2007 without having to upgrade Project
Server to 2007.

I'm thinking that I have to do what you did at first (by building a new
server with Project Server) but then move the Project Workspaces to their own
separate database instance and reimport the projects into the ProjectServer
database.

I was hoping that someone had mapped out this process.

I hope that this made sense. Thanks for your help.
 
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