Designing a Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Infrastructure Vol 2 part 34. 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 15-33 Gathering Information about the Current Environment Farm insight Pre-Upgrade Checker tool stsadm-o EnumAIIWebs SPDiag V2 Customizations gathering stsadm -o ExportIPFSAdminObjects Content database insight Test-SPContentDatabase Key Points There are several tools that you can use to gather information about the current environment so that you can plan the upgrade better. These have been enhanced because Office SharePoint Server 2007 has the potential to include a large array of customizations. These tools are primarily designed to help you discover the composition of your Office SharePoint Server 2007 deployment. Many of these tools ship with Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP2. Pre-Upgrade Checker Tool You run this utility with the stsadm command. You can run the command against the entire farm or against individual servers in the farm. The utility reads SharePoint database information but makes no changes to your environment. You can therefore run and rerun the utility as many times as you want to review changes that you make. The command generates an XML log a text log and an HTML report. It provides two different types of information MCT USE ONLY. STUDENT USE PROHIBITED 15-34 Designing a Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Infrastructure Information report Farm servers Databases Alternative address mapping configuration Site definitions Features Web Parts Event receivers Installed language packs Issue report Missing site definitions Missing features Missing assemblies Data orphans Modified content databases The Pre-Upgrade Checker provides reference links to Knowledge Base articles that will support you in using the tool. You do not have to run the Pre-Upgrade Checker tool before you upgrade as was the case with PreScan for Office SharePoint Server 2007. However you are strongly advised to do so. Gathering Information about Sites There are several tools for gathering information about sites. Although it may seem surprising to .
