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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...

The deepest most comprehensive content on upgrading customizations is now available. The best minds on upgrade were put together to pull this off. This paper is based on a project I drove though Aeshen. From Bill Baer (MS IT), Sean Livingston (upgrade PM), Chris Gideon (product support), Boxin Li (dev...

Performance and time to upgrade depends on a number of things. WSS and SharePoint Server provide multiple methods to upgrade , each have trade offs as well as differences in performance. MS IT included their numbers on upgrade performance which help one understand. I think this document talks through...

I had an email from one of Ted Pattison's students on "security in SharePoint." When I first started reading it, I expected to have some question about server hardening or firewalls, but the question was about permissions. It's been so long that security meant permissions that I was a bit stumped. Where...

Something that often comes up in deployments and migrations is what is allowed? What characters are supported. Rather than saying what's supported, it's a lot easier to say what is blocked and what is not allowed. Going from a desktop, file share or public folder, or other platform there are some key...

Working with Bill Baer, I've republished to our Codeplex governance workspace , the GotDotNet tools that MS IT had published These tools include the MS IT Recycle bin for WSS 2.0 and SPS 2003 written by an IT dev team (spec'ed by myself and Andre Heyman with documentation by Bill Baer.) This tool...

I just uploaded the code for the Microsoft IT Team Site Life Cycle Management tool . Bill Baer worked overtime to get me the code on this one. Thanks Bill! If you're concerned about sites being unused, taking up disk space and interfering with search results, then this is the management tool for you...

Just got off the phone with Sean Livingston and we had a quick discussion about host header upgrade and an issue to which some customers have contacted product support. I've seen this before in IT. I know there aren't too many host header deployments out there, but if you are you need to know about this...

If you've followed my upgrade blog posts, you'll see a few posts on upgrade and the 3 methods are documented on TechNet and listed from the new TechNet Upgrade and Migration Center and ship out of the box. My recent experience tells me there are more than 3 options or upgrade methods and some variety...

Before you dismiss this as a dev topic. Let me tell you why you should care about this as an upgrade topic and a manageability and governance topic. Your policies around customization may have the biggest impact to how difficult it is to upgrade, maybe even more so than how much content you have. It...

Between Shane's prescan post (view comments for more details) , Bill's prescan wisdom and a few of my own , there are a few good posts on prescan.exe. I tried to do some digging today to address a question on got on my recent prescan post (part1) about what prescan actually DOES. Here's some info I gathered...

I know you'll see documentation recommending in place as an upgrade for the non customized environment or the upgrade for the small environment. This list is to convince you to not make that decision. These reasons apply on upgrades from WSS 2.0 to WSS 3.0 and from SPS 2003 to Office SharePoint Server...

Prescan is your friend. Without prescan you *WILL* fail your upgrade from WSS 2.0 or SPS 2003 upgrade attempts, even if you plan to simply run setup to perform an upgrade. One of the most common mistakes in fact is people that take an environment and think... ok I'll try this once and if I have problems...

Did you create your WSS farm with the -hh option in WSS 2.0 now trying to upgrade? (not the default configuration) If so, this KB will help you understand a common issue with database attach upgrades in relation to host header WSS deployments. First be aware that host header WSS 2.0 deployments don...

Many of you are excited to know that bucketwebs are going away. WooHoo! No more http://portal/c4/c15/market%plan or /c15 whatever. A customer recently was worried about conflicts that would occur when the bucketwebs were flattened to their structure. With one portal it is impossible to have conflicts...

This topic has come up more times than I can count. This is one of those sticky topics that IT Pros seem to have a hard time with. See the TechNet reference for how to handle customizations and you can see that it can't be handled at that layer for most deployments. There is one good light reference...

If you are running Scalable Hosting mode or Active Directory account creation mode for your WSS 2.0 environment your upgrade options are limited. You can only do database attach. Gradual upgrade doesn't work. I've heard how this has impacted internal IT (doing database attach upgrades and consolidating...

Given the upgrade of WSS and MOSS may contain some customizations, IT Pros that are looking through TechNet may miss some great content that's actually in the SDK, something Server Admins don't usually think about cracking. The SDK has a lot of relevant content for IT Pros, so don't dismiss it. Here...

Steve Smith a good buddy, SharePoint MVP and chap from the UK has recently finshed a whitepaper on configuring email enabled lists and all the configuration on the server side. Very COOL! There are a couple of gotchas, so it's great to have this level of detail in an easy to use doc. I mean, imagine...

Thanks to those of you who partipated in my SharePoint Connection basic and advanced Deployment talks at SharePoint Connections and Tech ED ITforum. As promised here are links to download and uncompress those decks. Connections_Deployment_Oleson.zip If you are interested in Deployment, I figured...

2003 and Before In SharePoint Portal Server 2003 or WSS v2 if you had problems after an upgrade of a service pack it was always smart to run on the command prompt stsadm -o upgrade There are other switches to specify specific IIS virtual servers/Web Apps, so you could run (Also works on STS...

Question listed on the WSSFAQ There is no command line utility replacement for smigrate. If you want to upgrade one site at a time you can still accomplish this. Let's look at the different methods and how you could accomplish this... Re-reading my post I can see it got away from a simple little...

Prescan logs are stored in the %temp% directory for the user running prescan. (Prescan.exe is in the /bin directory with stsadm.exe) So, from the command line, cd %temp%. If you reboot or logout these logs may be cleared out, so make sure you simply lock your session if you need to leave your TS session...

The Exchange team did a well thought out and planned post on Public Folders in Exchange 2007 and their 10 year support for them. As well, I liked the positioning around using or WSS v3 SharePoint Server with Business Forms for new app creation. If you were ever confused about the Public Folder strategy...

You most likely won't upgrade to SQL 2005 exclusively for end user performance reasons. There are some interesting performance tests here... Here’s my top 5 and beyond in relation to Operating a SharePoint Products & Technologies (2003-2007) environment The mentions are anecdotal from...