SharePoint Up gradation(Moss2007->sharepoint2010-> sharepoint2013)

SharePoint Up gradation(Moss2007->sharepoint2010-> sharepoint2013)                  

I am giving my personal views as per my experience on up gradation of SharePoint. If anyone has any concerns please make a comment.

Initially, we cannot directly Upgrade from Moss 2007 to SharePoint 2013.we must follow the 2 stage Upgrade process here. which means, we must upgrade MOSS 2007->SharePoint 2010 first and then SharePoint 2010->SharePoint 2013 only.

we must consider so many factors for upgrade. From SharePoint 2010->SharePoint 2013 it must be through data base attach method only. The In place upgrade method is deprecated in SharePoint 2013.We must build a new SharePoint 2013 farm for Upgrade from SharePoint 2010.providing the steps below for a single web application as in brief. We need to follow the same steps for other web applications as well to perform the upgrade.

We must take care of below before doing the up gradation.

Site templates, web parts, site themes, workflows, web templates, site definitions….

We can only do upgrade in below order only. we can’t do upgrade directly from different versions of SharePoint.

SharePoint foundation 2010 -> SharePoint foundation 2013

SharePoint server 2010-> SharePoint server 2013

SharePoint enterprise 2010-> SharePoint enterprise 2013

SharePoint, project server enterprise 2010-> SharePoint, project server enterprise 2013

There is another issue also while we upgrade the site from SP 2010->SP 2013,It should be authentication issue. Classic authentication method is deprecated in SP 2013. So to upgrade site from SP 2010->SP2013 which is created with Classic authentication in SP2010, first need to change the authentication from Classic->Claims and then upgrade in SP 2013.

1.   Build a new SharePoint 2013 farm first

2.   Go to SQL Server and take backup of the content database and restore it into your new SQL server.

3.   Create new web application and site collection in SP2013.

4.   Now remove the content database for the newly created  web application in SharePoint 2013.Follow below to do

·        Go to central Administrator

·        Click on Application Management and then

·        click on content database => Manage Content database

·        Then select the newly created web application URL in sp 2013

·        Click on the database which is on the left side.

·        Then go to remove content database part and check the checkbox then it will prompt you popup there click on then again ok button.

5.   Now test whether the web application still having relation with the content database by using the following command.

Test-SPContentDatabase-Name "name of content database"-webapplication "URL of webapplication".

6.   Now go to SQL server and delete the database related to SP 2013 manually

7.   Now restore the 2010 content data base manually.

8.   Now we need to attach the restored content database  by using following command.

Mount-SpContentDatabase-Name "Database name"-webapplication "URL of webapplication".

9.   Now we can get following error like “Upgrade completed with following errors".

10.           Finally Migration has been completed successfully

For Service Applications: we only can upgrade below 6 service applications from SP 2010->SP 2013

·        User profile

·        Managed meta data

·        BDC

·        Search

·        Performance point

·        Secure store

There is another process to upgrade service applications. We should run by power shell. 

2007 needs to be patched at SP3 to upgrade to 2010.

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Item was not crawled because of a password change. Update password and retry crawling

Item was not crawled because of a password change. Update password and retry crawling            

                  

The issue is due to the password change for the Content access account, The password is not updated for account in search.

To resolve the issues follow the below steps.

·        Open the central administration page

·        Go to Application management->Manage Service applications

·        Click on Search service Application

·        Check for the Default content access account                      

                 

·        Click on the account and update the new password

                       

·        Once done, Run the crawl again and check for the results.

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Data base is Up to date but some sites are not completely upgraded

Data base is Up to date but some sites are not completely upgraded

                      Or

Product\patch installation or server upgrade required

                      

Issue: After Mount-SpcontentDatabase,having Database is up to date, but some sites are not completely upgraded. On /_admin/DatabaseStatus.aspx. When I click on the /_admin/UpgradeStatus.aspx it shows me the status Succeeded

Resolution: First of all, to identify what site collection doesn't got upgraded.

         Run: stsadm.exe -o localupgradestatus > upgradestatus.txt

or

PSConfig.exe -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -force -cmd applicationcontent -install -cmd installfeatures  (Run from one of the WFE server)

In below as you see, there no site collection that need upgrade.
If you have any, you can identify them by searching by word "Needs upgrade" in this file.                   

Secondly, run the command in the Power Shell:

For resuming the upgrade, you’ll need the ID for the database :

Get-SPContentDatabase -Identity <your content database name>

When you got the GUID for the database you can then resume the upgrade

         upgrade-spcontentdatabase -id <database GUID>

Finally, check the upgrade status by running stsadm again:

   stsadm.exe -o localupgradestatus > upgradestatus.txt

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How to change the Root Site template in SharePoint

How to change the Root Site template in SharePoint

            

Many times SharePoint administrators face an issue that they need to change the root site template once created. For Example, Root site is created with 

search Template and they want to change it to Team site template, How?

Solution: Follow the below steps to make it possible.

·        Login with your Administrator credential on the root site that you want to change

·        Go to Site Settings --> Site Action --> Delete this site             

·        Click on OK

·        Login with your Administrator credential on Central Administration

·        Go to Application Management --> Create Site Collection

·        You can find the new "/" on Web Site Address

·        create the site with desired template

Note: There is no issue If any packages are already deployed under Root site

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Service Applications in SharePoint

Service Applications in SharePoint

I am trying to explain the service applications definitions in this article. Please make a comment if you feel any incorrect.

Access Services — This service application enables you to create, view, edit, and interact using either the access 2013 office client or in the browser.

Access Services 2010 — This service application enables continued maintenance of SharePoint 2010 Access service applications by using Access 2010 and 2013 Office clients. It does not enable users to create new applications.

App Management Service — The App Management Service enables you to install apps from the internal App Catalog or the public SharePoint store.

Business Data Connectivity Service — The Business Connectivity Service (BCS) enables you to upload data (BDC) models that define interfaces of other enterprise line-of-business (LOB) systems and enables connectivity to those systems.

Excel Services — This service application enables viewing and interacting with Excel files from within the browser.

Machine Translation Services — This service provides automatic machine translation of files and sites.

Managed Metadata Service — This service application enables you to manage taxonomy hierarchies, keywords, and social tagging features of SharePoint 2013. This service application also handles content-type publishing across site collections.

Performance Point — This service application supports configuration and monitoring of Performance Point as a business intelligence (BI) product integrated with the Enterprise edition of SharePoint 2013.

PowerPoint Automation Service — This service application enables server-side presentation conversions to and from a variety of file formats.

 Search Service — As its name implies, this service application (which comes with its own topology management configuration) is used to index content and serves search queries performed by users or custom code.

Secure Store Service — This is a credential mapping service to access other enterprise-level service applications or back-end enterprise systems.

State Service — The State Service provides temporary storage of any data that deals with a user session.

 Usage and Health Data Collection — This service application provides storage usage and health information at the farm level, and provides various reporting functionality on such data.

User Profile — This user profile service application is one of the core service applications in SharePoint 2013. This service application supports features such as My Sites, My links, Colleague tracker, profile pages, personal tags and notes, and other social features.

Visio Graphics Service — This service application enables viewing, interacting, and refreshing of Visio diagrams within a browser.

Word Automation Services — This service application enables you to view and edit Word documents in a web browser. It can also be used for document conversions.

Work Management Service — This Work Management Service enables key user-related information to be aggregated to a central location. The service supports a provider model to enable other systems to leverage this service.

Subscription Setting Service — This is the key enabling component of the Multitenancy features provided by the SharePoint 2013 platform

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