Designing a Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Infrastructure Vol 2 part 32. This course is intended for IT Professionals who use Microsoft SharePoint 2010 in a team-based, medium-sized to large environment. While they may have implemented a SharePoint deployment, they have limited experience in designing a SharePoint infrastructure. They likely work as a senior administrator who acts as a technical lead over a team of administrators. Members of this audience should have at least 6 months experience with SharePoint 2010. | Planning for Upgrading to SharePoint 2010 15-13 Data Migration Data migration is the third upgrade strategy that is available when you move from old to new Office SharePoint environments. This is very similar in process and goals to the database attach option. The process of data migration involves the creation of a new SharePoint 2010 farm environment and the movement or migration and addition of the existing site databases to the new installation. When you add databases to the new installation the upgrade process automatically upgrades them. Data migration is considered to be the same as an in-place upgrade however the changes are made on a copy of the content rather than the content. Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 For Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 updates you must first upgrade the farm to Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP2. The options are the same as for Windows SharePoint Services upgrades. For Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 you must create upgrade definition files for translating the page templates into new page layouts. This is because page layouts replace page templates in the new site architecture and you must specify which page layout to use for each page type. During the pre-upgrade process you deploy the new custom site definition and any upgrade definition files to the installation directory so that they are available when you upgrade the site collections. Windows SharePoint Services When you plan to upgrade Windows SharePoint Services to Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 or SharePoint 2010 you should first install the latest service pack and cumulative updates on the farm servers. The service pack provides the Pre-Upgrade Checker tool which you can use to scan your farm to identify possible issues. You should resolve any issues that the Pre-Upgrade Checker report identifies before you proceed to an in-place or database attach upgrade to the required version of SharePoint 2010. With the farm servers at the appropriate
