1. SharePoint
2013 Migration
Solutions
or why Microsoft suddenly took
away the in-place upgrade.

2. • 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.
The Agenda

3. • 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!
What’s new in SharePoint 2013

4. Which Service Apps are supported for migration?
• Business Data Connectivity (Server and Foundation)
• Managed Metadata
• Performance Point
• Secure Store
• User Profile
• Search Administration
Background: Supported Service Applications

5. • Excel Services
• InfoPath Forms Services
• Office Web Apps
Considerations for Specific Services

6. • Seriously, what happened to the in-place upgrade?
SharePoint 2010 migration and why in-place upgrade is
no longer available

7. • AvePoint: DocAve
• Axceler: ControlPoint migration software
• MetaVis: Migration Suite
• Sharegate
MOSS 2007 migration and third party solutions

8. • Gather information about the 2010 farm
• Clean-up
• Prepare the new SharePoint 2013 farm
Assess and Prepare

9. Hardware Requirements
Front End and RAM: 12 GB
Application CPU 64-bit 4 cores
Server Tier Drive: 80 GB system drive
SQL RAM: 8 GB (users < 1k) 16 GB (users 1k-10k)
Server Tier CPU 64-bit 4 cores (users < 1k) 8 cores (users 1k-10k)
Drive: 80 GB system drive
Install SharePoint 2013

10. Software Requirements
Front End and 64-bit edition of Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Standard, Enterprise or Datacenter
Application Server
Tier 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
Install SharePoint 2013

11. • 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
Upgrade Databases

12. • Run site collection health checks
• Upgrade site collections
• Upgrade My Sites
Content Migration (aka Upgrade Sites)

13. • Branding
• Search
• Authentication
• Custom Solutions
What might/will not work?

14. Thank you for attending!
Q&A