Do you document the details of your SharePoint 2007 web application

When you move to SharePoint 2010, you will need to know the settings you had on your 2007 server. Therefore document all the settings from the SharePoint 2007 server, that you will need to re-create on the SharePoint 2010 server.

Fill in the following table. You will use this later when creating the new web application in SharePoint 2010.

SharePoint 2010 Web Application Option	Where To Find This In SharePoint 2007	Answer
Authentication Provider	Use  classic  unless you know you need  **claims based authentication
** Note: this is a new feature in SharePoint 2010.
New IIS website Name	Application Management	Web application list
Port	Application Management	Web application list
Port number will be listed on end of URL (if nothing its port 80)
Host Header	Application Management	Web application list
If a DNS name is  NOT  used, leave this blank.
Authentication Provider	Application Management	Authentication Providers
Allow Anonymous	Application Management	Authentication Providers
Use Secure Sockets Layer	Check whether the SharePoint site URL like “ https ://***”
Public URL	Automatically updated from Host Header
Application pool name	Leave defaults
Security account for this application pool	Leave defaults
Database Name	Zz the database name so you know this will be replaced (read zzOldFiles)

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