SharePoint Portal Server 2001 Scenario
In this scenario, a workspace is used to group a collection of personal dashboards, and little, if any, use is made of the top-level workspace dashboard. Each personal dashboard site consists of the Home dashboard page and an additional Reports subdashboard page.
Migrating to SharePoint Portal Server 2003
No in-the-box support is available for migrating personal dashboards from SharePoint Portal Server 2001 to SharePoint Portal Server 2003 My Sites.
By default, in SharePoint Portal Server 2003, all users in the Member site group or with the Create Sites and Create Personal Site rights automatically have a personal site created for them when they click the My Site link on the portal site home page.
My Site is a personal SharePoint site created on the portal site that provides personalized and customized information for each user. Your personal site consists of two views: A private view for personal information that only you can see, and a public view seen by everyone else. The private view is shown by default when you view your personal site.
Site administrators can determine the level of My Site personalization granted to users. Administrators can modify the shared view of My Site to customize the default appearance of personal sites.
Tip
The SharePoint Portal Server 2001 Upgrade Tool (Upgrade.exe) is used to upgrade the SharePoint Portal Server 2001 Web Storage System-based document libraries to a new version that is compatible with Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and SharePoint Portal Server 2003. After Upgrade.exe is complete, all of the original Web Storage System data is available in the backward-compatible document library (including the Dashboards folder where the data that represents the personal dashboards are stored by SharePoint Portal Server 2001). A script or Microsoft Visual Studio .NET application can be written to assist the migration process by scanning SharePoint Portal Server 2001 for existing personal dashboards and use the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 object model to pre-create My Site personal sites for each user.
