5. Learn
Minimum Hardware Requirements
• 64-bit
Processor • Quad processor for WFE and Applications Servers
• 2.5 GHz minimum per core
• 4 GB for developer or evaluation use
Memory • 8 GB for single server and multiple server farm
Storage • 80 GB for installation
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6. Learn
Minimum Software Requirements
SQL Server/Server OS/Client Browser
• x64 Edition
SQL Server 2005 • Service Pack 3 and Cumulative Update 3
• x64 Edition
SQL Server 2008 • Standard
• SP1 and Cumulative Update 2
• x64 Windows Server 2008 SP2 Standard
Operating System • x64 Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard
• Internet Explorer 7, 8, and 9
Client Browser • Firefox 3.6
• Safari 4.04
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7. Learn
Prerequisites
SharePoint Server
• SQL 2008 Native Client
• Windows Identity Foundation
• Sync Framework Runtime v1.0 (x64)
• Chart Controls for .NET Framework 3.5
• Filter Pack 2.0
• SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services ADOMD.NET
• Speech Platform Runtime
• Speech Recognition Language
• Windows PowerShell 2.0
• Web Server Role
• Application Server Role
• Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
Windows Server 2008
• KB976394 Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Fix
Windows Server 2008 R2
• KB976462 Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Fix 7
8. Learn
Supported Upgrade Methods
• Preserve farm wide settings, customizations, and URLs
In-place • Farm is offline during the upgrade process
• Incur most downtime
• Potential out of disk space risk
Database • Upgrade multiple content DBs at the same time
• Must transfer settings from old farm to new farm
Attach • Must apply customizations manually
• Preserve farm wide settings, customizations, and URLs
• Upgrade multiple content DBs at the same time
Hybrid • Farm is offline during the administrative databases
upgrade process
• Potential out of disk space risk
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9. Learn
Visual Upgrade
An upgrade method that allows for
independent upgrade of
infrastructure and site rendering
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10. Learn
Supported In-place Upgrade Paths
MOSS 2007 MOSS 2007 SharePoint
SP2 x86 SP2 x64 Server 2010
WSS 3.0 SP2 MOSS 2007 MOSS 2007 SharePoint
x86 SP2 x86 SP2 x64 Server 2010
SharePoint
WSS 3.0 SP2 WSS 3.0 SP2
Foundation
x86 x64
2010
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11. Learn
Unsupported Upgrade Methods
Unsupported Scenarios
Upgrade from earlier than WSS v3 SP2/MOSS 2007 SP2
Direct upgrade from WSS v2/SPS 2003 or earlier
Side by side installation
Gradual upgrade
12. Learn
Common Upgrade Failure Issues & Recovery
Determine cause of failure
Status Page & Upgrade Logs:
Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft SharedWeb Server Extensions14Logs
Error log
Full upgrade log
Customizations Management Commands:
Test-SPContentDatabase
stsadm -o EnumAllWebs
Fix issue(s)
Install missing or updated customizations
Activate missing services; farm, web app settings
Resume upgrade
Farm upgrade command
Content database specific upgrade command
Service specific upgrade commands
14. Prepare
Plan & Prepare Checklist
Prepare Server, Client Desktop/Laptops
Document environment
Revisit Farm and network structure
Review hardware end of life
Identify customizations
Plan for upgrade capacity disk space, memory, processor
Plan upgrade strategy
Farm/Topology/Services upgrade order/plan
Order of Operations
Downtime limits / mitigation plan
Rollback process
Schedule
Communication Plan
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15. Prepare
PreUpgradeCheck Command
stsadm command shipped with SP2
-o preupgradecheck
Checks for prerequisites and known issues
Rules based
Informational
Errors
Makes no changes
Additional/updated rules is included in October Cumulative Update
stsadm –o EnumAllWebs –IncludeWebParts improvements to find
other customizations at SPWeb level
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16. Prepare
PreUpgradeCheck Report
• Content Sources & Start address
• Farm & Search Topology
Information & • Servers
Configuration • Upgrade Types
• AAMs, Large Lists & Libraries
• Site Definition (referenced & missing)
Important Issues • Installed Language Pack
and • Features (referenced & missing)
Dependencies • Custom List Views & Custom Fields Types, Web.config
entries
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20. Prepare
Test-SPContentDatabase
Checks database compatibility before attaching
Complements pre-upgrade checker report
Reports data from server/database pairing
Compares against a specific web application
Identifies current or potential issues:
Data orphans
Missing site definitions
Missing features
Missing assemblies
Works with 2007 and 2010 content databases
Makes no changes to the database
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23. Prepare
Pre-Upgrade Considerations/Strategy
Amount of Data and Customization
• Upgrade performance is directly proportional to the amount of data being upgraded
• Upgrade complexity is directly proportional to the amount of customization
Dependent Applications
• Consider upgrading from SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008 before upgrading
SharePoint
• Web parts
• Third party applications
• Applications dependencies on v3 and may not work with v4
Downtime
• Service Level Agreement (SLA)
• In-Place vs. DB Attach vs. Hybrid
URL Changes
• DB Attach/Hybrid - URL may remain or change
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24. Upgrade Cycle: Test
Test
• Build test farms
• Use real data
• Evaluate techniques
• Find issues early
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25. Test
Build Test Farms
Use real data (copies of production databases)
To identify trouble areas
To determine upgrade performance
Measure sequences and actions
Use similar hardware if possible
Use similar network/firewall configuration if possible
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26. Test
Evaluate Techniques
Upgrade method
Comparison of In-Place vs. DB Attach vs. Hybrid
Downtime mitigation
This will provide an estimated downtime for production upgrade
Troubleshooting/validation
Fix errors
Apply missing customizations
Apply missing settings
Web parts
Third-party applications
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27. Test
Search
Run crawls and review logs
Run search queries
View query reports
Web application level
Site collection level
Search people and profile
Search customizations
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28. Test
Customizations
Large list query throttling
STP files for sites are deprecated
Save site as template now generates .WSP
Master pages and CSS
Toolbar actions properly moved to ribbon
Workflows must be redeployed
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29. Test
Customizations Considerations
Customization Common Choice Recommendation
Site template Recreate in v4 Recreate in v4 using WSP model
Custom site definition Create v4 site definition Migrate sites to OOTB site definition,
Create User-defined function upgrade then apply features with
(UDF) solution deployment
Un-ghosted page Revert to site definition Review options: retain customizations
or revert and possibly re-ghost
Add-ons workflow, server Determine per solution Determine per solution
controls Contact vendor Contact vendor
Custom web parts Works most of the time Test it out on a test server
Event handler Works most of the time Rewrite and redeploy as a feature
Code or pages in /_layouts Ignore and re-evaluate Analyze and create solution
deployments for requirements
Themes Recreate in v4 Use Visual Upgrade
Recreate theme in v4
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31. Implement
Required Accounts
• Domain user account
• Member of the Administrators group on each
SharePoint server
• SQL Server login on the computer that runs SQL
Setup User Account Server
• Member of the following SQL Server security roles
• Securityadmin fixed server role
• Dbcreator fixed server role
• Domain user account
• Dbcreator fixed server role
Server Farm
• Securityadmin fixed server role
Account • Db_owner fixed database role for all databases in the
server farm
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32. Implement
Hybrid Upgrade Process
Run the pre-upgrade checker
Disconnect users
Run Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products Preparation Tool
Detach content and SSP databases
Run setup
An opportunity to back out
Run SharePoint Product and Technologies Configuration Wizard
Convert forms-based authentication to claims based authentication
Only if Web application was configured to use forms-based authentication
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33. Implement
Hybrid Upgrade Process (cont’d)
Attach content and SSP databases
Wait…
Configure new services
Managed Metadata service
Upgrade profile properties to managed metadata and User Profile service
applications
Move-SPProfileManagedMetadataProperty
Update-SPProfilePhotoStore
Wait again
Start a full crawl
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36. Implement
Specify Farm Security Settings
This is a password that is used to encrypt all communications across the
farm. The farm passphrase is required to be input anytime you wish to
remove a server from the SharePoint farm or add a server to the farm. The
password should be recorded and kept in a safe place and can be changed
through Windows PowerShell by the administrator.
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38. Implement
SharePoint Services
Access Services Secure Store Service
Application Registry Service State Service
Business Data Catalog Usage and Health Data Collection
Excel Services User Profile Service Application
Lotus Notes Connector Visio Graphics Service
Managed Metadata Service Web Analytics Web Service
PerformancePoint Service Word Conversion Service
Application Application
Search Service Application
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40. Implement
Installation Process – Database Attach
Run Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products Preparation Tool
Run setup wizard
Run PowerShell to create SharePoint configuration and Central
Administration Content databases
Run SharePoint Product and Technologies Configuration Wizard
Register Managed Accounts
Run Server Farm Configuration Wizard to provision Service Applications
POC or Development
Run PowerShell to Create Service Applications
Staging and Production environments
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42. Implement
Upgrade Tasks for DB Attach
Set database to be read-only
Backup and restore content database
Create Web Application
Test Database
Test-SPContentDatabase -Name Content_DB -WebApplication http://MyPortal
Look for UpgradeBlocking: False/True
Upgrade SSP
Start User Profile and Managed Metadata services
Run New-SPProfileServiceApplication
Run New-SPProfileServiceApplicationProxy
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43. Implement
Upgrade Tasks for DB Attach (cont’d)
Upgrade My Site Host and Personal Site Collections
Run Test-SPContentDatabase
Install missing DLLs and features
Run Test-SPContentDatabase again
Mount-SPContentDatabase
Set up My Sites
Run iisreset
Upgrade Content Databases
Mount-SPContentDatabase -Name Content_DB –WebApplication http://MyPortal
Validate Site
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47. Validate
Validate Discussion
Verify High Impact/High Profile sites
Create a new site collection/libraries and verify basic functionality
Review application event log and upgrade log for failures
Review UI/UX issues (XHTML/SXLT/MasterPages)
External Data Sources
Security requires special attention post-upgrade
Migrate to Claims Based Authentication
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48. Validate
Post Upgrade Checklist
Add Administrators to Web Application
Set Default Quota Template
Filter People Picker to Active Directory Forests
stsadm -o setproperty -pn peoplepicker-searchadforests -pv
"forest:demo.vm.local;domain:icc.ohio.com,DOMAINAccountName,"Password"
-url http://WebApplication
AAMs
IIS bindings
Add Trusted paths
Import Administrator-approved form templates and data connection files
Configure Caching
Scheduling the Warm-up Script on SharePoint Servers
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49. Issues Encountered
E-mail alerts not sent to ‘Assigned To’ person
Disable and re-enable
People search error
'Property doesn't exist or is used in a manner inconsistent with schema settings.’
Check the Use Location Visualization check box – under People Search Core Results
Excel services
Add https under Trusted File Location
Large list throttling
Indexing
Disable list throttling
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50. Lessons Learned
Customizations
Solutions Training
Features Install Productivity Hub
Look in 12 hive
TemplatesFeatures
Custom Site Definitions
Themes
Sites may need to be re-ghosted
Look in 12 hive TemplatesThemes
Web.config
Compare with OOTB web.config FAB 40
12 hive Cannot create a new version
Compare with a clean
environment
Clean up data before upgrade
Look for a different date than
other folders
Watch out for Workflow History
Limit SharePoint Designer use
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51. Automatic Installation Resources
Remote Install with SPModule
http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/zach/lists/posts/post.aspx?ID=55
Allows for remote install of SharePoint 2010 farm using Windows
PowerShell
Automatic SharePoint Installer
http://autospinstaller.codeplex.com/
Scripted installs make for consistent environments and ideal for DR
documentation
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52. Customizations Upgrade Resources
Upgrading a Custom Site Definition
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa543837.aspx
Upgrading Master Page
http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2010/08/09/upgrading-a-sharepoint-
2007-wcm-site-to-sharepoint-2010-wcm.aspx
http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2010/08/09/upgrading-a-site-
collection-from-sharepoint-server-2007-wcm-to.aspx
Upgrade Resource Center – SharePoint 2010
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ee514557
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53. References
Migration and Upgrade Information for SharePoint Developers
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa905505.aspx
Migration and Upgrade Information for SharePoint Server (IT Pros)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ee517214
Upgrade Documentation
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc303420.aspx
Troubleshooting Upgrade Issues
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288476.aspx
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administration Toolkit
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=20022
Upgrade in WSS SDK
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms460185.aspx
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