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.