Upgrade: TFS 2005 with WSS2.0 to Orcas WSS3.0

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Upgrade: TFS 2005 with WSS2.0 to Orcas WSS3.0

31 May 2007 12:54 PM
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One major scenario for most of our customers who are using Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server is moving to Orcas and leveraging the new features around WSS3.0. The upgrade path to this is very simple and straight forward. This post is focused on performing in-place upgrade of WSS. That means you upgrade WSS2.0 to WSS3.0 on the TFS server itself.

As I mentioned in my last post related to Upgrade. We want you to make sure you have a working Whidbey before trying to upgrade to Orcas. We don't want you to change the configuration of the server.

The steps to upgrade are as follows.

  • Run Orcas TFS installer to upgrade your VS2005 TFS server. At end of this process you should have Orcas server with WSS2.0 configured.
  • Next Run WSS prescan.exe tool to verify if you can upgrade WSS from 2.0 to 3.0
  • Run WSS3.0 Installer and select the upgrade option
  • The installer will ask you for new Administration Port. You cannot use the old port(17012). You need to select new port number.
  • Complete all the installation and upgrade steps for WSS3.0
  • Now you should have Orcas server with WSS3.0. You still cannot use the system as you still need to tell TFS about the new URLs for WSS and also upload the new site templates for WSS3.0
  • Run Share Point Extensions for TFS setup. This should be located at InstallMedia\WssExt directory. This will upload the new site templates for WSS3.0.
  • The upgrade changes the WSS admin site URL. To make this change in TFS you can use TFSAdminUtil . Following is the command you can use.
    • TFSAdminUtil configureconnections /SharepointAdminUri:http://wssserver:adminport  

Note: You can use TFSAdminUtil to update all the different URL's for WSS. Following is the syntax for updating all WSS related attributes in TFS.

  • TFSAdminUtil configureconnections
    • /SharepointURI:http://wssserver:80 
    • /SharepointSitesUri:http://<wssserver:80/sites
    • /SharepointAdminUri:http://wssserver:adminport
    • /SharepointUnc:\\wssserver\sites

Hope this post is helpful. Please let me know your experiences.