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Prepare your Project Server 2003 environment

 

Applies to: Project Server 2010

Topic Last Modified: 2011-08-05

You must prepare your Microsoft Office Project Server 2003 environment for migration to Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 in order to migrate to Microsoft Project Server 2010. To prepare your Project Server 2003 environment, you must do the following:

  • Update your Project Server 2003 installation to Project Server 2003 Service Pack 3 (only required if your Project Server 2003 deployment does not have a service pack that supports upgrade (Service Pack 2a or Service Pack 3)).

  • If you are using Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 for project workspaces, you must update to Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 Service Pack 3 (only required if your Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 deployment is not updated with a service pack that supports upgrade (Service Pack 2 or Service Pack 3).

    Important

    If you do not want to upgrade your project workspace sites, you do not need to apply the update to Windows SharePoint Services 2.0.

Update Project Server 2003 with Service Pack 3

Project Server 2003 SP3 is composed of three parts, each of which can be downloaded and installed separately, as needed:

  1. An upgrade for the Project Server 2003 database

  2. An update for the Project Server application binaries

  3. An update for the Project Server template files on Windows SharePoint Services

Depending on your migration deployment strategy, you may need one or more of the parts listed above.

  • To upgrade your existing installation to the latest service pack, you must use all three parts and upgrade your existing Project Server 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 installation to SP3. This is the simplest way to upgrade.

  • To keep your existing Project Server 2003 installation (without applying SP3), you must do the following:

    1. Create a backup of your Project Server 2003 database. Restore it, optionally using a different name. Apply SP3 part 1 to the restored database.

    2. Apply SP3 part 3 to the Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 installation.

    Note

    More information about the service pack can be found in the Knowledge Base article named Description of Project Server 2003 Service Pack 3 (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=188720).

Update Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 with Service Pack 3

Note

As mentioned previously, if you do not want to migrate your project workspace sites from Project Server 2003, you do not need to apply this update.

For information about Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 Service Pack 3, see Description of Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 Service Pack 3 (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkID=101608).