4. New SharePoint 2010 Features There are lots of of new features that may be used to supersede controls you have implemented in your MOSS 2007 sites Server Ribbon Publish process Auto spell-check Unpublish items check One-Click page authoring Content Organizer Multilingual options Digital media Silverlight viewer Video streaming Site Asset Library Cross-browser rich text editor with valid markup No need for custom solution Metadata store upgrades Enterprise taxonomies Folksonomies Rating Tagging Social feedback Dynamic Rollup Filtering Site-based workflows
25. Hardware and System Software 64-bit all the way Hardware and system software SharePoint Server 2010 is 64-bit only SharePoint Server 2010 requires 64-bit Windows Server 2008 or 64-bit Windows Server 2008 R2 SharePoint Server 2010 requires 64-bit SQL Server 2008 or 64-bit SQL Server 2005 Development Visual Studio 2008 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services (VSeWSS), version 1.3 Visual Studio 2010
26. Best Practices Update your servers to Service Pack 2 (SP2) of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 or later Ensure that the environment is fully functioning before you perform an upgrade Run the pre-upgrade checker to look for potential issues Perform a trial upgrade on a test farm first Plan for capacity Back up your environment Optimize your environment before upgrade
27. MOSS 2007 Farm services Each SSP upgrades into: A Search service app A User Profiles service app An Excel service app An App Registry back-compat service app A new managed metadata service app Web application associations are preserved A proxy is created for each service app New databases are created as needed
29. Upgrade Planning Customer Communications Farm/Customizations Surveys Upgrade/Customizations Testing Environment Cleanup Hardware Build-out Customizations Deployment Backups Before Upgrade Operations Scheduling Rollback/Restore Plan Post-Upgrade Activities Ongoing Support Calls
30. Farm/Customizations Surveys Gather information Pre-upgrade checker (Updated in Oct 2009 CU) Manual inspection process Comparison process (WinDiff): New server with same version and patch level Compare Web Server Extensions directory Compare IIS directory Compare GAC directory Determine impact stsadm -o EnumAllWebs (Updated in Oct 2009 CU) Collect customizations stsadm -o ExportIPFSAdminObjects
31. Environment Cleanup Delete Stale Sites and Webs (Backup First ) stsadm -o DeleteSite [-force] [-gradualdelete] stsadm -o DeleteWeb [-force] Remove Extraneous Document Versions Primarily user driven, OM operations or tools help Cleanup Templates, Features, & Web Parts Primarily user driven, OM operations or tools help Repair Data Issues stsadm -o DatabaseRepair [-deletecorruption] stsadm -o ForceDeleteList stsadm -o VariationsFixupTool
33. Upgrade Testing Recommendations Full survey first Test server side customizations Verify in both Visual Upgrade modes Consider preview environments Similar hardware Use real datasets Don’t ignore warnings Upgrade Issues Large lists Modified databases Customizations Authentication providers
36. Example of Operations Scheduling Example: Planned 36 hours outage. Up to 54 hours emergency outage if rollback is required. Downtime mitigation processes such as read-only databases can be used to reduce outage time.
38. Post-Upgrade Activities - I’ve finished upgrade, what’s next? Find and Fix Issues Missing Templates Deprecated Templates SSP Admin Site Great Plains (STSPKPL) Missing Features Deprecated Features PortalLayouts Missing Assemblies Web parts (STSPKPL) Forms Based Authentication Modify config files Fix-up user identifiers User Experience Unghosted pages Non-reghostable pages Incompatible HTML Content Issues Large/wide lists
39. Upgrade Failure Prevention Perform Farm Analysis stsadm -o PreUpgradeCheck(Updated in Oct 2009 CU) stsadm -o EnumAllWebs(Updated in Oct 2009 CU) Get Farm Healthy (Spring Cleaning) Gather/Install Server Side Customizations stsadm -o ExportIPFSAdminObjects Test Upgrade Beforehand Perform Database Content Check (optional) Test-SPContentDatabase
40. Upgrade Failure Recovery Determine cause of failure Status Page & Upgrade Logs: Error log Full upgrade log Customizations Management Commands: Test-SPContentDatabase stsadm -o EnumAllWebs Fix issue(s) Install missing or updated customizations Activate missing services; farm, web app settings Resume upgrade Farm upgrade command Content database specific upgrade command Service specific upgrade commands
Key MessagePresenter NotesReview what you have just discussed. This is the high-level approach that you will take to a customers upgrade.[Present from the slide]
Key MessageSharePoint 2010 is a 64-bit platform. This is going to be a big step for many customers.Presenter NotesHardware and System SoftwarePlan for upgrading 32-bit hardware that is currently running SharePoint 2007 to 64-bit hardware. SharePoint 2010 will only be available in a 64-bit version. Plan for upgrading 32-bit hardware that is currently running SQL Server for SharePoint 2007 storage. SharePoint 2010 will require 64-bit SQL Server 2008 or 64-bit SQL Server 2005. Plan for upgrading your Windows Server Operating System to Windows Server 2008 64-bit or above. SharePoint 2010 will require Windows Server 2008 64-bit or above. Deploy Service Pack 2 for Windows SharePoint Service 3.0 and Service Pack 2 for SharePoint Server 2007. Service Pack 2 is a requirement for upgrading SharePoint Server 2007 to SharePoint 2010. Consider your desktop browser strategy if you have a large population of Internet Explorer 6 users. Internet Explorer 6 will not be a supported browser for SharePoint 2010. SharePoint 2010 will support a broader range of standards based browsers such as Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer 8 and FireFox 3.x. Development PlatformPlan for upgrading SharePoint development environments to 64 bit. The Visual Studio 2008 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services (VSeWSS), version 1.3 support 64 bit development, debugging and deployment to SharePoint Server 2007 today.Consider packaging all custom code that you deploy to SharePoint as SharePoint Solutions in WSP files. SharePoint 2010 has new technology that makes this solution deployment format more valuable. You can read about the SharePoint Solution format.Microsoft recommends Visual Studio 2008 for SharePoint Server 2007 development and Visual Studio 2010 for SharePoint 2010 development. There will be two types of upgrade provided for projects. Visual Studio 2008 SharePoint Workflow projects will be upgraded to Visual Studio 2010 and continue to work in SharePoint Server 2007. Visual Studio 2008 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services (VSeWSS) projects will be upgraded to Visual Studio 2010 and in the process will be migrated to SharePoint 2010 projects.Many of your SharePoint 2007 applications will work in SharePoint 2010. In specific cases where Microsoft deprecates an API, it will be providing detailed written guidance for developers on how to upgrade custom code, and any deprecated API’s will issue warnings on compile with recommendations for changes.
Key MessageTake the opportunity of an upgrade to cleanup your farm.Presenter NotesAs part of your upgrade you should take the opportunity to clean up your environment. There are a variety of stsadm command options to use.