getting to 2010 sharepoint saturday sacramento 2012
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Getting to 2010
How we got there
About Me
• Beau de Graaf– Software Support
Engineer III
• EMF Broadcasting– K-LOVE and Air1– 501c3
Our Motivations for Upgrading
• TFS Integration• BI Tools• SharePoint Designer
2010 Feature Set• New Look and Feel• Create Development
Environment
Migration Planning
• New Environment• Database Attach and
Upgrade– 170GB Content DB
• Pre-Upgrade Testing and Scripting
• Old Environment Set to Read Only After Migration
My Piece of the Puzzle
• Testing Visual Upgrade• Customizations and
Workflows• Troubleshooting
Things that Helped
• Inventory– stsadm.exe –o enumallwebs > sites.txt
• Convert to a Spreadsheet of Sites and Templates, store excel file on SharePoint.– For Matching Template name and Description from
Above Command • http://blogs.technet.com/b/araviraj/archive/2008/06/18/s
harepoint-templates-types.aspx
– Additional Template Information on Fab 40 Templates• http://www.sharepoint-answers.com/microsoft/SharePoin
t-Portal-Server/33810860/template-codes.aspx
Things that Helped
• Remove Problematic Features and Legacy Solutions– stsadm.exe –o preupgradecheck• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262231.a
spx
Site Cleanup
• Identify Pages that are custom for the sites that are being kept.– Log the Pages and workflow
names in Excel– Document the Workflows in
One Note
• Backup the ones you are cleaning up– stsadm.exe -o export -url
<siteurl> -filename "D:\SharePoint Backups 2007\Site Deletions\<sitename>.bak"
Capture the Look and Feel
• Webkut – Free!!– Screenshot Application
for Capturing the look and feel of pages to compare after applying new look and feel.
Browser Support (PC/Mac)
• IE 9• Firefox (current release) • Compatibility Matrix– Sharepointjoel.com
Fixing What Broke
• The List View Threshold– “This view cannot be displayed because it exceeds
the list view threshold (5000 items) enforced by the administrator”
Visual Upgrade Oddities
• Reset to Site Definition
Broken Links
• Hard Coded URLs– We had some links that
were still pointing to the old server via hard coded URLs.
Broken Lists
• Two Options– Recreate List– Save as Template with Data and Re-deploy
InfoPath Form Recreation
• WARNING!!– InfoPath Form
Recreation + Promoted Fields + Custom Views = Recreation Nightmare
• Stubborn Forms– download/open/delete/
resubmit
Environmental Protection
• Removed access to SharePoint Designer for Site Owners and Designers. – Only Site Collection Administrators (Help Desk,
SharePoint Support) can edit sites with this tool• Removed access to change Site Themes. – Some users are already trying to change our
beautiful styling.
Q & A
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