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1a.: Re: SharePoint Upgrade From: Ikkon

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1a.: Re: SharePoint Upgrade

Posted by: "Ikkon" n_ikkon@yahoo.com n_ikkon

Sat Jan 14, 2012 8:21 am (PST)

I agree... You would need to provide more information about your farm, but here is a start for you.
It's actually pretty decent what Microsoft has provided for completing this task successfully.

The first thing to do is an pre-upgrade check. SP2 included a new STSADM operation, preupgradecheck. This command allowed you to look at SharePoint 2007 databases and provide insight on any possible problems for the upgrade to SharePoint 2010. This reports on the following key aspects of your farm:

Servers and amount of content
Search configuration
Features
Solutions
Site definitions
Alternate access mappings
Language packs

It will also alert you to the following possible issues:

Large lists
Orphaned data
Views and content types that use CAML
Databases with modified schemas

The results of the upgrade check are saved to an XML file and an easy to read .HTM file. The check is read-only, and it can be run multiple times as you clean up issues it discovers.

SharePoint 2010 offers the same at the content database level via PowerShell. (yes get used to using PS with SP2010), The PowerShell cmdlet Test-SPContentDatabase will look at both SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 content databases and determine if they can be upgraded and added to a SharePoint 2010 farm. Keep in mind that preupgradecheck, Test-SPContentDatabase does not make any changes to your databases, so you can run it without messing up your production environments.

I hope this helps you.
YA

--- In sharepointdiscussions@yahoogroups.com, Tammy Barbee <tgmiller5@...> wrote:
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> I just wanted feedback. Going through an upgrade from 2007 to 2010 and just wanted to know what are some known problems that might occur while upgrading 2007 to 2010. I do realize that companies vary but are general issues when it comes to upgrading? if so what are they?
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> Tammy Barbee
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