Chapter 5: Upgrading from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010
What’s In This Chapter?
- Supported upgrade methods
- Considerations for upgrading your farm and content
- Patching your SharePoint 2010 farm
SharePoint 2007 has been good to us. For many of us, SharePoint 2007 was where SharePoint started getting taken seriously. No more getting sand kicked in its face when it was at the beach; SharePoint was a force to be reckoned with. Because of that, it almost seems disrespectful to talk about abandoning it for its newer, flashier sibling SharePoint 2010. Take heart, SharePoint 2007 understands. We sat down and had a long talk with it. “Dear SharePoint 2007, it’s not you, it’s me …”
You have a lot of good options for moving your SharePoint 2007 content and farm to SharePoint 2010. In this chapter, we cover those options in detail, as well as discuss some ways to make the upgrade less painful for you, and your end users. At no extra charge, we also talk about upgrade’s cousin, patching, and how that has improved in SharePoint 2010. There is a lot to cover, so let’s dig in.
Upgrade Considerations
While this chapter is chock full of great upgrade information, most of you are here for the “how.” A lot of planning goes into upgrading, and there are a lot of gotchas to look out for, which are no fun. Of course, what you want is the nitty gritty about how to actually upgrade your SharePoint 2007 farms to SharePoint 2010. Don’t worry, we’ll get to all that later, but first we need to lay down ...
