Monday, September 3, 2007

Where is the MOSS Upgrade Pre-scan Tool?

Upgrading from SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 entails a lot of pre-upgrade, upgrade, and post-upgrade steps.

Part of the pre-upgrade tasks is to run the pre-scan tool (prescan.exe). You can get this tool via:

  1. Microsoft Downloads;
  2. Or from the file system of the server where you have installed MOSS (%PROGRAMFILES% \Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN). You can run the tool directly from this file path if you have not run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration wizard yet; otherwise, just copy and paste the tool to another location and run it there.

Notes:

  1. You must be a member of the Administrators group on the local computer to run this tool.
  2. You will also need the preupgradescanconfig.xml file, which can be located from the same sources mentioned above.

Related links to understand the pre-scan tool better:

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