SharePoint 2013 – the upgrade story
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This document outlines the steps for upgrading a SharePoint 2010 farm to SharePoint 2013. It discusses requirements like hardware, software, and training. It then covers preparing the existing farm by surveying configurations, fixing issues, and backing up databases. The main steps involve setting up the new 2013 farm, restoring databases, upgrading service applications and content databases, and allowing site collection administrators to trigger deferred upgrades of individual site collections. Tips are provided around claims authentication, testing upgrades, throttling upgrades, and monitoring the upgrade queue.
![Site Collection Health Check
Check the health of the Site Collection
• Customized files
• Missing galleries
• Missing Site Templates
• Unsupported Language Pack References
• Unsupported MUI References
PowerShell cmdlets
• Test-SPSite –Identity <URL>
• Repair-SPSite –Identity <URL> [-RuleId <GUID>]](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/sharepoint2013theupgradestory-121129152306-phpapp02/85/SharePoint-2013-the-upgrade-story-28-320.jpg)
![Do the Site Collection upgrade
Site Collection Owner
• Site Settings > Site Collection Administration > Upgrade this Site Collection
• Check Upgrade Status
Farm Administrator
• Upgrade-SPSite –Idenitity <URL> -VersionUpgrade [-
Unthrottled] [-QueueOnly]](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/sharepoint2013theupgradestory-121129152306-phpapp02/85/SharePoint-2013-the-upgrade-story-31-320.jpg)
SharePoint 2013 – the upgrade story
- 1. SharePoint 2013 – The Upgrade Story WICTOR WILÉN, CONNECTA AB SWEDEN SHAREPOINT AND PROJECT CONFERENCE ADRIATICS ZAGREB, 11/28/2012
- 2. sponsors
- 3. Wictor Wilén • Senior SharePoint Specialist • Connecta AB, Sweden • Microsoft Certified Architect – SharePoint 2010 • Microsoft Certified Solutions Master – SharePoint • Microsoft Certified Master – SharePoint 2010 • Microsoft Most Valuable Professional – SharePoint • www.wictorwilen.se • @wictor
- 4. Agenda Requirements Preparation Upgrade Farm and Services Upgrade Content Databases Upgrade Sites – Deferred Site Collection Upgrade …and some tips and tricks
- 5. Upgrade process Requirements Prepare Test Upgrade Upgrade Farm Validate Eval Upgrades Upgrade Sites Validate
- 6. REQUIREMENTS
- 7. SharePoint 2013 Requirements Understand the new Hardware and Software requirements for SharePoint 2013 You need a new set of hardware • No V2V in-place upgrades anymore! • Typically SharePoint 2013 requires more tin than SharePoint 2010 Operating System • Windows Server 2008 R2 • Windows Server 2012 SQL Server • SQL Server 2012 (SP1 for BI stuff) • SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 Internet Explorer 7.0 not longer a supported browser
- 8. Training Make sure you get training on SharePoint 2013 • For your IT-pros • For your Administrators • For your End-users* • For your Developers • For your Consultants(!) Learn PowerShell if you haven’t done it before!
- 9. PREPARATION
- 10. Plan Make sure you have a plan – and understand it! Communicate early! • Inform the users about your plan Always have a backup plan Plan and communicate major changes • URL’s (avoid if possible) • UI – Metro – Modern UI
- 11. Survey your old farm Check for this… • Customizations and Solution packages (WSP) • Service Applications • Web Applications • Databases • Large lists • Configurations • Language Packs • Infopath forms • Proxy Groups • … Document it! • There are some really nifty tools available for this!
- 12. Fix your old farm, even before considering upgrade Claims! • It’s better to convert to Claims before upgrading • Test/Fix/Upgrade custom Claims Providers • Document custom claims encodings! Remove orphaned items Remove deprecated things • PowerPoint Broadcast sites Remove stuff you don’t need • Solutions • Sites Patch! • CU June 2011 contains a MigrateUsers fix (post SP1 CU) • CU April 2012– optimal CU, least impact during DB Attach
- 13. DEMO: CONVERT TO CLAIMS
- 14. Prepare new 2013 farm Install SharePoint 2013 in a new farm • Pre-reqs • SharePoint 2013 • Language Packs Do NOT use the Farm Configuration Wizard • You should never do this anyway…. “Copy” farm-level configuration from old farm • Don’t forget the custom claim encodings! Install your old solutions/customizations into the new farm • Install-SPSolution … -CompatibilityLevel “14,15” • For custom code you can use SPSite.CompatibilityLevel
- 15. Backup databases Content Databases Service Applications • Business Data Connectivity • Managed Metadata • PerformancePoint • Search (only the Search Admin DB) • Secure Store • User Profile (Profile, Social and Sync DBs)
- 16. Restore databases Restore the databases in the new farm Do not yet remove the old databases! You will do this many times! Last time set old databases to read-only!
- 17. DEMO: BACKUP AND RESTORE A CONTENT DATABASE
- 18. TEST AND UPGRADE
- 19. Create New Service Applications New Service Applications • State Service • App Management Service • Work Management Service • Machine Translation Service • Access Services 2013 • PowerPoint Automation Service Service Applications without (upgradeable) Databases • Excel Services • Visio Graphic Services • Word Automation Service
- 20. Upgrade Service Applications Create new Service Applications • Use PowerShell – you will do this several times • Reference the restored databases • Make sure that you time all upgrades! Create Service Application Proxies Add Proxies to the correct Proxy groups
- 21. What about Service Farms? Always upgrade Services Farms first • SharePoint 2010 can consume services from a SharePoint 2013 Services farm Only see this as an intermediate solution!
- 22. Upgrade Content Databases 1/2 Create a new Web Application • Use Claims if you already converted to Claims • Use Classic if you want to switch to claims later (PowerShell only) • Do convert and upgrade at the same time! • Apply Web Application configuration (Blob cache, policies etc) Use Test-SPContentDatabase • Fix ALL warnings and errors
- 23. Upgrade Content Databases 2/2 Use Mount-SPContentDatabase • Don’t forget the Super User and Super Reader accounts! • You can do several mounts in parallel • Time it! • Always do test mounts on production (like) hardware!
- 24. DEMO: TEST AND MOUNT A CONTENT DATABASE
- 26. Deferred Site Collection upgrade 1/2 No more Visual Upgrade • Was just a fake upgrade • The site was already upgraded • Lots of UI problems SharePoint 2013 can host real SharePoint 2010 sites • Installation adds both 14 and 15 root folders • Solutions can be deployed in 14 and/or 15 mode • You can even create new 2010 mode sites
- 27. Deferred Site Collection upgrade 2/2 Site Collection owner can do the upgrade • Another feature with huge cloud focus Site Collection Health Check Evaluation Sites • Don’t forget to configure outgoing e-mail! Throttling rules • Application Pool • Content Database PowerShell cmdlets for the Farm Admins • If the Site Collection owner refuses to upgrade
- 28. Site Collection Health Check Check the health of the Site Collection • Customized files • Missing galleries • Missing Site Templates • Unsupported Language Pack References • Unsupported MUI References PowerShell cmdlets • Test-SPSite –Identity <URL> • Repair-SPSite –Identity <URL> [-RuleId <GUID>]
- 29. Upgrade Evaluation sites Site Collection owner can request an Evaluation Site • Request-SPUpgradeEvaluationSiteCollection –Identity <URL> A real copy of the Site Collection Limitied lifetime • Default 30 days • $wa.DaysToExpire = <days> • $site.EvaluationExpiry Can be done several times When Eval site is ok, the original site can be upgraded
- 30. Upgrade and Eval Site configurations Web Application settings • $wa.UpgradeReminderDelay • $wa.UpgradeMaintenanceLink • $wa.SendSiteUpgradeEmails • $wa.AllowSelfServiceUpgradeEvaluation • … Self Service Site Collection Upgrades • $site.AllowSelfServiceUpgrade • … Compatibility settings (Web Application) • $wa.CompatibilityRange
- 31. Do the Site Collection upgrade Site Collection Owner • Site Settings > Site Collection Administration > Upgrade this Site Collection • Check Upgrade Status Farm Administrator • Upgrade-SPSite –Idenitity <URL> -VersionUpgrade [- Unthrottled] [-QueueOnly]
- 32. The Upgrade queue Site upgrades are placed in a queue • First in, first out.. Check the queue using: • Get-SPSiteUpgradeSessionInfo –ContentDatabase <ID> – ShowInProgress –ShowCompleted -ShowFailed Check a site using: • Get-SPSiteUpgradeSessionInfo –Site <URL> Remove a site from the queue • Remove-SPSiteUpgradeSessionInfo –Identity <URL>
- 33. Site Upgrade throttling Web Application Setting • $wa.SiteUpgradeThrottleSettings.AppPoolConcurrentUpgradeSessionLimit • $wa.SiteUpgradeThrottleSettings.UsageStorageLimit • $wa.SiteUpgradeThrottleSettings.SubwebCountLimit Content Database Setting • $db.ConcurrentSiteUpgradeSessionLimit
- 34. DEMO: SITE COLLECTION HEALTH CHECK AND UPGRADE
- 35. Upgrading My Site Host and My Sites Always update the My Site Host first! • My Sites cannot be upgraded before the My Site Host • My Sites will automatically be upgraded when users hit them • Upgraded My Sites is required for new Social features
- 36. Other things worth to notice… Upgrade logs now in ULS format! Site Collection Maintenance Log • New catalog in the Site Collection
- 37. Some bonus stuff, that even a dev can appreciate… Get-SPUpgradeActions • Shows all upgrade actions in the farm Get-SPPendingUpgradeActions • Shows all pending upgrades for a given root object •Get-SPFarm | Get- SPPendingUpgradeActions -Recursive
- 38. THAT WASN’T TO HARD, RIGHT? AND WE DIDN´T USE STSADM ONCE!
- 39. Summary Plan, plan, plan… Prepare for Claims Based AuthN, now! Test, test, test… Content Database Attach is the only upgrade method! Let the Site Collection Administrators do the job Better control of upgrade and transition period
- 41. thank you. SHAREPOINT AND PROJECT CONFERENCE ADRIATICS ZAGREB, 11/28/2012