Assessing Site Migration Readiness with the Pre-Upgrade Check Tool

The most critical task that an administrator needs to perform before beginning a migration is to assess the state of the current site structure. Multiple factors can affect how a site migrates, so they need to be taken into account and tested in advance. Microsoft anticipated this when it created Service Pack 2 for SharePoint 2007 because SP2 includes a pre-upgrade check utility that enables administrators to check the readiness of their environment for upgrade to SharePoint 2010.

This pre-upgrade check runs as an extension to the STSADM command-line tool, included in the \Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\BIN folder on a SharePoint 2007 Server ...

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