Monday, October 7, 2013

Migrating SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013

Use database attach method to perform the migration. There is no in-place upgrade method available for SharePoint 2013 migration. Following are steps for migration.

Install and configure SharePoint 2013 server farm

Create a new web application using SharePoint 2013 server.

Deploy the farm solutions to 15 Hive. Install all your custom solutions on the new SharePoint 2013 farm using Install-SPSolution command

Backup SharePoint 2010 database server to file using SQL Server Management Studio.

Restore the database to SharePoint 2013 database server

Run the test-spcontentdatabase command on SharePoint 2013 server

Use Mount-SPContentDatabase powershell command to attach the database of the SharePoint  2010 database server to the web application.

Syntax: Mount-SPContentDatabase "<ContentDb>" -DatabaseServer "<DbServer>" -WebApplication http://SiteName

Open the newly create site in browser.


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