Penny Coventry, MVP

How to move a SharePoint Server 2007 32-bit environment to a 64-bit environment on Windows Server 2008

Steve Smith of Combined Knowledge and I have produced a new white paper "How to move a SharePoint Server 2007 32-bit environment to a 64-bit environment on Windows Server 2008 (RC1)" that you can find here: http://www.combined-knowledge.com/Downloads%202007.htm. We provide step by step instructions on how to:

• Install SharePoint Server 2007 on Windows Server 2008, using the 64-bit version of both products.
• Join an existing farm and creating the new Web front end and application servers.
• Moving the Search and Excel Calculation Services from the old Windows Server 2003 (32-bit) SharePoint Server application server to the newly installed Windows Server 2008 (64-bit) SharePoint Server application server.
• Extending the Central Administratiion Web site and SSP Web sites on the newly created Windows 2008 server MOSS 2007 application server.
• Removing the old Windows Server 2003 (32-bit) SharePoint Server Web front-end and application servers from the farm

Microsoft will soon be releasing a whitepaper outlining the improvements and benefits of SharePoint on Windows Server 2008 in a lot more detail - make sure you watch Joel's blog http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/ for information of this.

Thanks to:

• Ben Curry of Mindsharp for information on how to slipstream SharePoint Server service packs, http://mindsharpblogs.com/ben/archive/2007/12/16/3837.aspx.
• Bill Baer for information on installing Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on Windows Server 2008, http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/archive/2007/10/30/installing-windows-sharepoint-services-3-0-on-windows-server-2008.aspx.

posted on Wednesday, January 16, 2008 8:58 AM