SharePoint 2013 Migration Solutionsor why Microsoft suddenly took away the in-place upgrade.

The Agenda

• SharePoint 2013 and what’s new

• Assess your current SharePoint environment and plan the architecture of the new farm

• MOSS 2007 migration and third party solutions

• SharePoint 2010 migration and why in-place upgrade is no longer available

• Prepare the farm for migration

• Migrate supported service applications

• Migrate content

• Create evaluation sites

• Migrate site collections and sites.

What’s new in SharePoint 2013

• The Design Manager

• Device Channels, display templates, etc.

• HTML5, CSS3, all that coolness

• Community Sites and Community Portal

• The new search experience

• Apps and the App Store

• But wait… there is more!

Background: Supported Service Applications

Which Service Apps are supported for migration?

• Business Data Connectivity (Server and Foundation)

• Managed Metadata

• Performance Point

• Secure Store

• User Profile

• Search Administration

Considerations for Specific Services

• Excel Services

• InfoPath Forms Services

• Office Web Apps

SharePoint 2010 migration and why in-place upgrade is no longer available

• Seriously, what happened to the in-place upgrade?

MOSS 2007 migration and third party solutions

• AvePoint: DocAve

• Axceler: ControlPoint migration software

• MetaVis: Migration Suite

• Sharegate

Assess and Prepare

• Gather information about the 2010 farm

• Clean-up

• Prepare the new SharePoint 2013 farm

Install SharePoint 2013

Hardware Requirements

Front End and Application Server Tier

RAM: 12 GB

CPU 64-bit 4 cores

Drive: 80 GB system drive

SQL Server Tier

RAM: 8 GB (users < 1k) 16 GB (users 1k-10k)

CPU 64-bit 4 cores (users < 1k) 8 cores (users 1k-10k)

Drive: 80 GB system drive

Install SharePoint 2013

Software RequirementsFront End and Application Server Tier

64-bit edition of Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Standard, Enterprise or Datacenter

Windows Server 2012 Standard or Datacenter

SQL Server Tier

Database 64-bit edition of SQL Server 2012

64-bit edition of SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1

OS 64-bit edition of Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Standard, Enterprise or Datacenter

Windows Server 2012 Standard or Datacenter

Upgrade Databases

• Copy content databases and service applications databases

• Upgrade the service application databases

• Create web applications and apply customizations

• Verify: Test-SPContentDatabase

• Upgrade the content databases: Mount-SPContentDatabase

Content Migration (aka Upgrade Sites)

• Run site collection health checks

• Upgrade site collections

• Upgrade My Sites

What might/will not work?

• Branding

• Search

• Authentication

• Custom Solutions

Q & A

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