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Virtual Environment which enables Microsoft Office Project Server 2003 and Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 customers to migrate to 2010 versions of the respective products.

• The Virtual Migration Environment is a set of two virtual disks that provide Office Project Server 2007 and Office SharePoint Server 2007 environments, sample content, and scripts design to assist customers with upgrade and migration from Office Project Server 2003 and Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to Project Server 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010. The Virtual Migration Environment provides the tools and resources to assist with upgrade and migration and planning and preparation resources to determine upgrade approaches and address common issues.
  
  The Virtual Migration Environment can be used to attach your existing production Project Server 2003 or SharePoint Portal Server 2003 databases for upgrade to Project Server 2007 or Office SharePoint Server 2007 or can be used with sample databases to test and understand the upgrade process.
  
  For more information, please visit the following Upgrade and Migration Centers on Microsoft TechNet:
  
  • Microsoft Project 2010
  • Microsoft SharePoint 2010

Files

Status: Deleted This download is no longer available on microsoft.com. The downloads below are archives provided by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine from the Microsoft Download Center prior to August 2020.

File	SHA1 Hash	Size
Project Server Virtual Migration Environment.pdf	0109e15b04b3f59f6644479ab219b60c31b2956c	721 KB
Project Server Virtual Migration Environment.xps	c753a24b0d6de6ba5133e0749385ed63e5172e0b	1.08 MB
ProjectVME.part01.exe	efefbf670feb73f950973036102de2bd8b665ab9	700.17 MB
ProjectVME.part02.rar	ff8d09f079b0885b17e32f74b1930b8192c96d8f	699.79 MB
ProjectVME.part03.rar	5b70bff445e7de6e9d7be98f106bc62b8390ce50	699.03 MB
ProjectVME.part04.rar	060e3bd66251abd2ecf449a96b432211904818ad	699.29 MB
ProjectVME.part05.rar	404fc2420746d738c96bdc67f1eb2c65f30ec436	699.76 MB
ProjectVME.part06.rar	4035a89c9cfc3b2a11c34e6e1b655a7db934113e	699.74 MB
ProjectVME.part07.rar	4d0daa542dea6b158e8b8420916d2166a8f68133	699.70 MB
ProjectVME.part08.rar	cfbc7b57670409946835467f627cc585786976ac	700.07 MB
ProjectVME.part09.rar	22a39d3c06a19251d6abb427f2c738cec6efeb6e	699.44 MB
ProjectVME.part10.rar	6446146696de2a8d86ee24d580635b5496206d52	690.21 MB
ProjectVME.sfv	8e32dd4bddb5688f7d36046d7a898812d5e937c4	785 bytes

This download includes .xps files. XPS was a Microsoft document format intended to replace PDF. To view these files, you may need to install the XPS Essentials Pack.

• • Microsoft Windows® Server 2008 R2 with the Hyper-V role enabled
  • RAM: 4 GB or more for the host machine, with 3 GB or more allocated to the Virtual Machine
  • Disk space: 20 GB for running the virtual machine (plus 4 times the size of the database to migrate), Solid State Drive recommended for better performance
  • CPU: 2 or more virtual processors allocated to the Virtual Machine recommended for best performance

• See the "Project Server Virtual Migration Environment" documentation for full details and setup instructions.
  
  PLEASE NOTE - we about issues in Custom Field and User Editing scenarios in the migrated 2007 Project Web Access Site. The following steps will solve the issue:
  
  Dynamic content compression must be disabled in Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager in the Project Server VME (it is on by default in Windows Server 2008 R2). Having dynamic content compression enabled can cause issues if you need to make corrective changes to your Project Server 2007 data in the VME (specifically issues with editing custom fields and resources).
  
  To disable Dynamic Content Compression:
  
  1. On the Project Server VME, click Start, click Administrative Tools, and then click Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager.2. In Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager, in the Connection Pane select VME (VME\Administrator).3. In the VME Home pane, in the IIS section, click Compression.4. In the Compression section, deselect Enable dynamic content compression to disable it.5. In the Actions pane, click Apply to save the change. The Alert “The changes have been successfully saved” displays if the change has been applied successfully.6. Close Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager.