SharePoint Saturday Houston #SPSHOU Level: 300 Track: Administrator, Development / SharePoint App SharePoint 2016 is finally out and it brings tons of new features that continue to make SharePoint an amazing collaboration tool for companies. Many companies are still on SharePoint 2010, maybe even earlier versions. In this session, I discuss and show you the approach for upgrading and migrating to SharePoint 2016. Its time to get with the times and upgrade your farm. I will shares best practices and lots of tips as we upgrade our sample farm. I will include some troubleshooting and custom solutions based on real world scenarios to make sure this isn’t another “simple” upgrade. Best of all, we will have fun doing this. Attendee Takeaways: 1. Learn how to upgrade to SharePoint 2016 from various SharePoint versions. 2. Learn best practices for upgrading smoothly and properly. 3. Learn some tips and tricks to making the upgrade faster, less error prone and efficient to reduce downtime. 4. Learn how to troubleshooting and deal with upgrade issues.

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Upgrading and Migrating to
SharePoint 2016 like a Pro
Brian Culver

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Welcome to SharePoint Saturday Houston
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to disturb others.
• Special thanks to our Diamond Sponsor, HSPUG
Thank you for being a part of the
6th Annual SharePoint Saturday
for the greater Houston area!

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Thanks to all our Sponsors!

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Information
• Speaker presentation slides should be available
from the SPSHOU website within a week or so
• The Houston SharePoint User Group will be
having it’s next meeting Wednesday April 20th.
Please join us at www.h-spug.org

5. About Brian Culver
 SharePoint Solutions Architect for Expert Point Solutions in
Houston, Texas.
 Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) in SharePoint
 Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD).
 Brian has worked in the Information Technology industry for
since 1998 and he has been working with SharePoint since
2005. His deep expertise includes Azure, Office365,
SharePoint, ASP.Net, SQL Server and Project Server. He has
been involved in many large SharePoint implementations
including Internet and Intranet sites, Partner Portals,
Enterprise Content Management and Governance, and much
custom application integration and development.
 Author, Speaker and Blogger
Email : brian.culver(at)expertpointsolutions.com
Twitter : @spbrianculver
LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/bculver
Blog : http://blog.expertpointsolutions.com

6. Session Agenda
What's new in SharePoint 2016?
Best Practices
Getting Started
 Pre-requisites
 Installation
Upgrading Prior Versions
Upgrade Methods/Supported Upgrade Paths
Database Attach Upgrade
Tips and Tricks
Troubleshooting
Closing Comments

7. What's new in SharePoint 2016?

8. What's new in SharePoint 2016?
 User Experience – Mobile first and Cloud First
 OneDrive for Business
 Navigation - App Launcher
 Hybrid Cloud Integration
 OneDrive Redirection (available in SharePoint 2013 since SP1)
 Delve – Dashboard for Office Graph (ML against information in Office 365)
 Sites you follow in one place – “Follow” both On-Premises and on their Office 365 under “Sites”
 Hybrid Cloud Search - Unified Search experience via Office 365
 Infrastructure and Performance Improvements
 MinRoles – Roles and Compliance
 Zero Downtime Patching
 Automatic Index Creation – Zooooom….
 Increased File Size for uploads – 10 GB
 Fast Site Creation – 1 sec vs 1 min
 Fulfillment
 Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
 Encryption
 Compliance
 And more …. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt346121(v=office.16).aspx

9. What's Old SharePoint 2016?
 No Duet Enterprise for Microsoft SharePoint
 No SharePoint Foundation 2016
 SharePoint Foundation 2013 is still available, but it’s the last
 No Standalone Install mode
 No ForeFront Identity Manager client (FIM)
 Its MIM now … uh, Microsoft Identity Manager 2016
 No Excel Services in SharePoint
 Now its part of Office Online Server (this is the next version of Office Web Apps Server)
 Many Excel Services features have changed … such as no trusted libraries and locations
 Some SharePoint BI capabilities are not working right now
 No Tags and Notes
 No Stsadm.exe … almost. Use powershell, stsadm has not been updated and wont be.
 And more ….
 Reference:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt346112%28v=office.16%29.aspx

10. Best Practices
 What are Best Practices?
 Per Google: commercial or professional procedures that are accepted or prescribed as being correct or
most effective.
 I will discuss best practices throughout. I will add this green check mark as well to
highlight them in the slides

11. Getting Started – Collect Information
 Alternate Access Mappings (AAM)
 Web App Policies
 Authentication Providers and Modes
 Service Accounts
 Quota Templates
 Managed Paths
 Blocked File Types
 User Policies on Web Applications
 Incoming and Outgoing E-Mail Settings
 Customizations
 Solutions, Apps, InfoPath Forms, Workflows, etc
 Record Passphrase for Secure Store Service
 Export the Encryption Key for the User Profile Service Application
 And more …

12. Getting Started – Accounts
 Accounts
 Accounts can vary, I recommend the following:
 Make adjustments to your needs and security requirements.
 Reference:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/14500.sharepoint-2013-service-accounts.aspx
 Scripts:
http://www.toddklindt.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=362
Service Account Description
sps16_setup SharePoint Setup User – Needs Local Admin on all boxes
sps16_farm SharePoint Farm Service -
sps16_webapps User-facing Web Application App Pool(s)
sps16_service Service Application App Pool Account
sps16_ups User Profile Synchronization Account
sps16_srchcontent Default Content Access Account
sps16_srch Search Service Account
sps16_cachesuperreader SP Cache Super Reader
sps16_cachesuperuser SP Cache Super User
svc_sql14 SQL Server Service Account
svc_sqlagent14 SQL Server Agent Service Account

13. Getting Started – The Pre-requisites
 Every version of SharePoint has needed lots of pre-requisites
 Use this script to make your life easy:
 https://www.itunity.com/article/automatically-download-sharepoint-server-2016-prerequisites-
powershell-script-3164
 This grabs it all for you and it works great
 Modify the file to match your folder paths
 Make sure the folders exists
 And bam it works
 Compliments of
Dan Holme
 Automation is key!!

14. Getting Started – Installation
 Business as usual except …
 MinRole is new: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt346114%28v=office.16%29.aspx
 SharePoint Health Analyzer for MinRole enforcement
 Health rule will scan each server in the farm daily
 Scans all roles except for “Custom” and “Single-server Farm”
 Compares Service Instances on server to expected configuration
Server role Description
Front-end
Service applications, services, and components that serve user requests belong on Front-end web
servers. These servers are optimized for low latency.
Application
Service applications, services, and components that serve backend requests (such as background
jobs or search crawl requests) belong on Application servers. These servers are optimized for high
throughput.
Distributed cache
Service applications, services, and components that are required for a distributed cache belong on
Distributed Cache servers.
Search
Service applications, services, and components that are required for searching belong on Search
servers.
Custom
Custom service applications, services, and components that do not integrate with MinRole belong on
Custom servers. The farm administrator has full control over which service instances can run on
servers assigned to the Custom role. MinRole does not control which service instances are
provisioned on this role.
Single-server farm
Service applications, services, and components required for a single machine farm belong on a
Single-Server Farm. A Single-Server Farm is meant for development, testing, and very limited
production use. A SharePoint farm with the Single-Server Farm role cannot have more than one
SharePoint server in the farm.

15. MinRole
Demo

16. Getting Started – Installation - MinRole Walkthrough

17. Upgrade survivor…

18. Upgrade Methods/Supported Upgrade Paths
 Database Attach Upgrade
 Only available method
 Works for content and services databases
 Third Party Tool Migration
 Sharegate
 Metalogix
 AvePoint
 And more

19. Upgrade Prior Versions
 Upgrade to 2007
 Gradual Upgrade - Not recommended
 Database Attach Upgrade - Recommended
 In-Place Upgrade - Not recommended
 Upgrade to 2010
 Database Attach Upgrade - Recommended
 In-Place Upgrade - Not recommended
 Upgrade to 2013
 Database Attach Upgrade - Recommended

20. Upgrade Prior Versions – Tips and Tricks
 Database Attach Upgrade is the fastest route to upgrade.
 You can build multiple farm of each version to parallelize the upgrade process.
 If you need to upgrade fast, pay careful attention to the speed of your drives (IOPS) for SQL Server.
 You can also upgrade multiple content databases on the same system
 When upgrading multi versions, build each farm separately. I highly recommend lots of
virtual machines.
 If upgrading services, upgrade the services first.
 Otherwise, build lean SharePoint servers without configured services. You don’t need them, you may
get warnings but they won’t prevent you from upgrading the content databases.
 Upgrade the content databases in each environment progressively. Make sure you fix the
errors produced by the Test-SPContentDatabase. Warnings will not prevent you from moving
forward.
 For SharePoint 2013, upgrade the site collections from 2010 mode to 2013 after upgrading
the content databases.
 Upgrade-SPSite
 On the final environment (2016 of course)
 Configure the web applications, Urls, Services, AAM, etc. as final and fully functional
 Deploy your solutions and features correctly
 Test the services are functioning properly
 Then, perform you content database upgrades

21. Upgrading Services First
 Upgradable Services (in upgrade order)
 Secure Store Service Application
 Business Data Connectivity Service Application
 Managed Metadata Service Application
 User Profile Service Application
 PerformancePoint Service Application
 Search Service Application
 Gather applicable services settings on source farm
 Backup all applicable services databases from source farm
 Ensure service application pools are created first
 Make sure the managed account is the correct one for your security needs
 Create each service application and proxy
 If applicable, upgrade service database during service application creation
 Pay special attention to differences in some services
 Most service upgrade processes are the same, some are different though
 Start service instances only after service is created with upgraded databases

22. Database Attach Upgrade - Preparation
1. [Tip] Testing your IOPS for future reference
2. Collection old farm configuration information
3. Create new service accounts for a clean cutover
4. Create Web Applications
 Try to use same URLs and AAM
 Add managed paths
 Install solutions and other customizations
5. Ensure service instances are connected to web application
 Some content database upgrades attempt to use service instances
 Service unavailability should not block upgrade
 Service issues during upgrade may require additional work afterwards
 Finish the specific service interaction missed during upgrade
 Check logs to look for issues
6. Always upgrade content database with root site collection first for each web application
7. Office Web Apps are now Office Online Server
 Excel Services is now part of Office Online Server … this will affect a lot of users

23. Database Attach Upgrade
1. Place Content Databases into Read Only mode
2. Backup Content and Service Application Databases
3. Restore Content and Service Application Databases
4. Take Restored Databases out of Read Only Mode
5. Test-SPContentDatabase –Name WSS_Content_Upgrade –WebApplication
http://upgrade.contoso.com
 Fix all errors, missing customizations, orphans, etc.
6. Mount-SPContentDatabase –Name WSS_Content_Upgrade –WebApplication
http://upgrade.contoso.com
 Use Upgrade-SPContentDatabase to resume failed upgrades
7. Test and Validate
 Workflows, forms, solutions, apps
8. Test and Validate
9. Test and Validate
10. Test and Validate

24. Database Attach Upgrade
 Celebrate
 Don’t forget to clean up afterwards

25. Tips and Tricks
 Always do a full dry run before you go live
 Time your upgrade process
 Streamline and use parallelism as well
 Upgrade multiple content databases on the same system (use multiple spindles)
 Can use dev machines and laptops to speed things up
 Know how fast (iops) is your On-prem farm *** THIS IS YOUR BEST CHANCE ***
 Key Upgrade CmdLets
 Test-SPContentDatabase
 Mount-SPContentDatabase
 Upgrade-SPContentDatabase
 Upgrade-SPSite
 Throttling
 Be aware that upgrading is throttled
 App pool 5 simultaneous site collections per web app
 Site collections < 10 MB and < 10 webs processed by web app pool  immediately
 Site collections > 10 MB and > 10 webs processed by timer job  Runs every 5 minutes
 Both of those settings controlled by web application properties
 (Get-SPWebApplication http://upgrade.contoso.com).SiteUpgradeThrottleSettings
 Content databases only allow 10 simultaneous site collections to be upgraded
 (Get-SPContentDatabase claims_upgrade).ConcurrentSiteUpgradeSessionLimit

26. Closing Comments
 Think about you upgrade/migration strategy
 Plan for Office Online
 Document your new environment
 IOPS, drives, procs, etc. This will help in the future when you need to test performance.
 Think about the future roadmap
 Will my farm solutions continue to work?
 What will be the cloud strategy for my company?
 InfoPath will be supported until 2023
 Make sure you test your upgrade
 Time your upgrade process
 Communicate with Users
 Clean up old servers, data, etc.
 Verify Services are working properly
 Leverage new features and educate your users of the benefits

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Brian Culver, MCM
Twitter:
@spbrianculver
E-mail:
brian.culver(at)expertpointsolutions.com
Blog:
http://blog.expertpointsolutions.com/
Slides:
http://www.slideshare.net/bculver

31. Other Resources
 Office 365 Roadmap (Official)
http://fasttrack.microsoft.com/roadmap?Wt.mc_id=DX_MVP402844
 Get on First Release for Office365
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Office-365-release-options-3b3adfa4-1777-4ff0-b606-fb8732101f47?ui=en-
US&rs=en-US&ad=US
 Set up the release option for your organization
 Select people for First Release
 Read the Azure Security, Privacy and Compliance white paper
 Read the Security Management in Microsoft Azure white paper
 SharePoint Server: http://sharepoint.uservoice.com
 Office365: http://office365.uservoice.com