How can I spend the least time rectifying 60 websites after migrating a sharepoint 2003 site to sharepoint 2010 ?
I'm working for my client preparing to migrate their sharepoint 2003 site to sharepoint 2010 . It consist of 70Gb data on a single content db, single web application but 60 site collections under Sharepoint 2003 (running on Win2003 32bit, SQL2000)
Testing Upgrade:
After a testing upgrade to sharepoint 2010 (spent around 40 working hrs), found that most of the sites are either cannot open, no ribbons, dead hyperlinks or strange layout, only 5 sites were intact with SP2010 functions. Some sites was edited using Frontpage2000
suffer the most. I know that there were errors at SP2007 preupgrade checker on 25 missing web parts and now im still troubleshooting, will soon know if these errors are cleared and the migrated sites will looks better.
For the problems of the migrated sites, an programmer is currently helping me to rectify the 60 sites. we have solutions to all those site issues, it's only a matter of time. He estimated finish rectifying all 60 sites will spent 3 weeks.
My problem:
my client will only allow me spending 3 - 5 days for the next month Production migration (Put in readOnly mode as downtime). I will spent 2 days to do the system and application upgrade. But I don't have another 3 weeks to rectify the broken sites again! Are
there any ways I can quickly make use of my previously 60 rectified site (including layout, Formatting, webparts settings... But not content!) to apply on the migrated SP2010 system so to shorten the sites rectification time? Please note that after my client
exported the production SP2003 db to me for the upgrade testing (last month), in the 3 weeks site fixing period end users still using the production site until the Production migration 5 days, lots of contents are adding or updating, but they were already
told not to change any layout. If I perform Content publishing from my rectified testing SP2010 to the final Production migrated SP2010, any updated content within these 3 weeks will lost even the Layout is fixed. Client do not prefer a gradual upgrade for
weeks since there might be chaos for some user browsing new sites while some users browsing old sites.
I tried to just copy the rectified site main aspx page and paste to a migrated broken site but failed, site cannot open with exception. I already read most of Microsoft upgrade guidelines and lots of forum cases but still can't find an effective solution
shortening the site fixing period ifor my case
Please help! !!!!!
i don't have good sleeping for weeks already......
Sam Yim ASL System Analyst