Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Step 05: Overview of the upgrade process to SharePoint 2013

Upgrade My Sites

A server farm administrator upgrades the My Site host and then individual users can upgrade their My Sites or the farm administrator can upgrade them by using Windows PowerShell. The following illustration shows four stages for the My Site host and My Sites during the upgrade process.


  1. The My Site host has not been upgraded. My Sites cannot be upgraded yet.
  2. A server farm administrator has upgraded the My Site host. No My Sites have been upgraded.
  3. Some users have upgraded their My Sites.
  4. All My Sites have been upgraded.
Upgrade other SharePoint 2010 Products site collections

Owners of all other site collections can start to upgrade their sites as soon as they see a notification on their site's home page that the new version is available. The following illustration shows four stages for a site collection during the upgrade process.

Stages in upgrading site collections


  1. The site owner runs the site collection health checks to determine readiness for upgrade. The site owner addresses issues before they continue with the next step.

  1. Optionally, the site owner requests an upgrade evaluation site collection. A timer job runs to create the site collection and the site owner receives an email message when the evaluation site collection is ready. The site owner previews the new user interface. After several days or weeks, the evaluation site collection expires and is deleted by a timer job. 
A server farm administrator can determine the length of time before expiration.

  1. When the site owner is ready, the site owner starts the upgrade process. The site collection health checks are run again automatically. The site owner must address issues before upgrading. If health checks return no issues, the upgrade starts.
  2. When upgrade is complete, the site owner sees the Upgrade Status page that contains the status and a link to the upgrade logs. The site owner reviews the site to make sure that everything works correctly.

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