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

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.

Posted: Thursday, May 31, 2007 12:54 PM by sudhirh

Comments

Sudhir Hasbe said:

This topic is very similar to the previous topic( http://blogs.msdn.com/sudhir/archive/2007/05/31/upgrade-2005-with-wss2-0-to-orcas-wss3-0.aspx

# May 31, 2007 2:19 PM

Sudhir Hasbe said:

We have put in a lot of effort on getting our Upgrade experience right. It is not perfect but I think

# May 31, 2007 2:43 PM

hatt said:

Hmmmn when we try to run the Orcas TFS installer it throws an error complaining that the schema is old and that the TFS 2005 is already installed. The install guide lists upgrading from a previous version as not supported and workarounds as NONE

# June 22, 2007 3:09 PM

sudhirh said:

The Upgrade is only supported in Beta2. I am sorry for the confusion. I had mentioned in it previous posts. I guess I should add it to this one too.

# June 25, 2007 3:20 PM

But it works on my PC! said:

As I posted before I have been updating our TFS server to 2008 Beta2, today it was the WSS from 2.0 to

# October 2, 2007 9:36 AM

Willy-Peter Schaub's Cave of Chamomile Simplicity said:

In most implementations of TFS we end up having tough discussions with infrastructure and questions such

# November 20, 2007 11:40 AM

Miguel Madeira said:

At the company i work for, we are using Team Foundation Server 2005 for Workgroup Edition, since June

# February 29, 2008 8:27 AM

Neil Rees's Blog said:

Upgrading Team Foundation Server 2005 to 2008 SP1

# October 6, 2008 9:23 AM
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