MCMS to SharePoint Server 2007 Migration resources
I've been busy that past couple of months helping deliver some MOSS Accelerator Labs. In each lab, there has been some interest in MCMS 2002 to SharePoint Server 2007 migration. Here is a summary of the best information available to date.
There is quite a bit of content available to help assess and plan for a CMS to MOSS migration. One consolidated listing of related resources is Migration and Upgrade Information for SharePoint Developers site. This site has a list of resources organized around migrating from CMS as well as SPS 2003.
Regarding a CMS migration, start with the Planning MCMS 2002 Application Migration to SharePoint Server 2007 whitepaper. This paper discusses the high level strategies and tasks that need to be completed as part of the migration effort.
The next thing to read is Assesing and Analyzing your MCMS 2002 Application for Migration. This paper details how to use the CMS Assessment Tool. This tool is intended to help you determine the scope of your migration effort. The tool gathers information on templates and the MCMS features they use, infrastructure information, characteristics of the information in your content repository including things not supported by MOSS, and statistics about your MCMS users and roles, resources, channels, and postings.
Going a little deeper, check out the Mapping MCMS 2002 APIs to SharePoint Server 2007 paper. While many tasks that required custom code in MCMS can be accomplished by configurating MOSS features, MOSS has a powerful Publishing API for tasks that require special customizations. This paper helps you determine how the MCMS PAPI maps to equivalent but different classes in the MOSS Publishing API.
If you are coming at this from a MCMS development perspective and are new to SharePoint Server 2007, check out the SharePoint Server 2007 for MCMS 2002 Developers whitepaper. This article provides a side-by-side comparison of the development concepts in MCMS and SPS 2003 with SharePoint Server 2007.
For an summary of an actual migration with best practices, check out Improving an IT Self-Help Portal User Experience. This paper summerizes Microsoft's own migration of an internal site from MCMS 2002 to SharePoint Server 2007.
There are several blog authors with CMS and MOSS content. Stefan Gossner in particular however, has several postings related to CMS/MOSS migration. Happy trails!