SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Key Resources

Official SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Resource Centers

• SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Resource Center – MSDN.  
• Upgrade and migration resource center for SharePoint Foundation 2010 - TechNet
• Upgrade and migration resource center for SharePoint Server 2010 - TechNet

Unofficial 2010 Wiki Site Focused Exclusively on Upgrade - Great Design!

• SharePointUpgrade.com - Community driven wiki based upgrade resources

SharePoint Joel's Recent Blog Posts Drill Down into SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Insights

• PreUpgradeCheck Drill Down - A detailed look at the PreUpgradeCheck command and its reporting and best practices insights you should be using today
• How to Remove Corrupted SharePoint Sites Webs and Lists including Orphaned sites - SP2 enhancements provide make removing corrupt sites and identifying sites much better
• What Happened to Gradual Upgrade? - A look at how visual upgrade provides what you had with gradual upgrade
• 5 Reasons PreUpgradeCheck is better than Prescan - a comparitive analysis of the 2007 and 2010 upgrade check tools
• Test-SPContentDatabase - Key to Successful 2010 Upgrade with Powershell - a drill down into the new powershell command and its usefulness in database attach upgrade
• Depreciated SharePoint 2010 Features and APIs/Methods - a look at what APIs are no longer available including upgrade insights around My Sites
• Working with Large lists with Millions of Items and SharePoint 2010 List Scale Reality A look at preparing your lists for SharePoint 2010
• Optimizing Databases for SharePoint 2010

TechNet Model's / Posters

• 2010 Upgrade Planning 
• Upgrade Approaches (Models)
• Upgrade Testing
• Service Upgrade Considerations

SharePoint 2010 forums (for community based support)

• Visit the SharePoint 2010 forums

TechNet System Requirements:

• Determine hardware and software requirements (SharePoint Server 2010)
• Determine hardware and software requirements (SharePoint Foundation 2010) 

2010 Product Downloads

• Download SharePoint Foundation 2010 Beta
• Download SharePoint Server 2010 Beta
• Download the Demo SharePoint Server 2010 Beta Image

Slides:

Joel Oleson Slides on SlideShare.net: Preparing for Upgrade to SharePoint 2010 Today - presented as a webcast and presented at SPSEMEA, Best of SharePoint Conference

More Blog Posts: 

Preparing

• SharePoint Team Blog: SharePoint Server 2010 Preliminary System Requirements - includes Browser, Server, OS, etc...
• SharePoint Team Blog (Jan 22) - Operating System Requirements of SharePoint 2010 Detailed OS requirements from Datacenter to Web editions with lots of detail
• Mauro Cardelli - Planning Your SharePoint 2010 Upgrade – Part 1
• Arpan Shah - Upgrade to SharePoint 2010
• SharePoint Solutions Help Blog - SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Part 1: Fundamentals

TechNet Tech Library:

Plan and prepare

• What's new in upgrade
• Determine upgrade approach
• Upgrade process overview
• How search features are affected by upgrade
• How other services are affected by upgrade
• Plan to upgrade form templates during an upgrade to SharePoint Server 2010
• Migrate an existing server farm to a 64-bit environment
• Use a trial upgrade to find potential issues
• Run and test a full backup in SQL Server
• Run the pre-upgrade checker

Perform an in-place upgrade

• Upgrade in place to SharePoint Server 2010
• Roadmap for in-place upgrade with detached databases
• Install available language template packs

Perform a database attach upgrade

• Prepare the new SharePoint Server 2010 environment for a database attach upgrade
• Attach databases and upgrade to SharePoint Server 2010

Perform post-upgrade steps

• Perform post-upgrade steps for an in-place upgrade
• Perform post-upgrade steps for a database attach upgrade
• Verify upgrade and review upgraded sites