This document discusses upgrading from previous versions of SharePoint to SharePoint Server 2010. It provides resources on determining an upgrade approach, capacity management, new features in the upgrade, and adoption best practices. Ground rules and introductions are also covered. The document suggests hiring consultants for some legacy upgrades and includes considerations for claims-based authentication during the upgrade process.

2. Scott
Hoag
ciphertxt

3. Dan
Usher
usher

4. introductions

5. a few ground rules…

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9. transferring data
minimizing
re-engineering
involve downtime
replacement of a
product
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_migration
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_migration
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upgrade

10. devising your way ahead

11. You’re pretty funny…
you must be new here…
we don’t do plans…

13. Web Front End(s) SQL Server(s)
Componen Minimum Requirement Component Minimum Requirement
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Hardware 64-bit, four cores (small
Hardware 64-bit, four cores deployments)
64-bit, eight cores (medium
deployments)
Memory 8 GB Memory 8 GB (small deployments)
16 GB (medium deployments)
Operation Windows Server 2008 R2 Operation Windows Server 2008 R2 with
System with SP1 System SP1
Windows Server 2008 with Windows Server 2008 with SP2
SP2 SQL Server SQL Server 2008 R2
SQL Server 2008 with SP1
(SP1) and CU2 (or CU5 or later)
SQL Server 2005 with SP3 and
CU3

14. Version Migration Preparation
SharePoint Portal Server 2001 Hire a consultant
Consider a 3rd party migration tool
Windows SharePoint Services Hire a consultant
3.0 Prescan.exe / ReGhost.net / GhostHunter Web
Parts
Office SharePoint Server 2007 STSADM –o preupgradecheck
SharePoint Server 2010 test-spcontentdatabase cmdlet

16. and
 New hardware
 Only

18. side bar

19. > PSConfig -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -wait -force

21. considerations

22. Classic AuthN Claims AuthN and AuthZ
Integrated Windows AuthN with NTLM / Kerberos
Forms Based AuthN
Trusted Identity Provider (aka SAML &
WS Fed)

25. $> i:0#.w|claimprovider|useraccount != i:0#.f|claimprovider|useraccount

26. Migrate a web application

33. • Lotus • Alfresco
• WebSphere • Legacy HTML
• Drupal • Non-OCR’d Text
• DotNetNuke Documents
• Orchard

39. Office Clients

40.  YES!

42. closing thought

43. …so far, the Universe is winning.

44. questions
?

45. evaluations

46. dan@spdan.com
@usher
www.sharepointdan.com
Scott.hoag@spdelta.com
@ciphertxt
www.psconfig.com

47. What's new in upgrade
Determine upgrade approach
SharePoint Server 2010 capacity management:
Software boundaries and limits
Video demos and training for SharePoint Server
2010
SharePoint 2010 Adoption Best Practices