Wow! TechEd is over and demo gods were kind and I actually was able to run two complete demos of In-Place upgrade and a Database attach upgrade on stage! As promised to all those who were at my session here are the links and the session slides from “OFS308 SharePoint Upgrade Deep Dive”.

Download the session slides for OFS 308

Resources for upgrading.

• Upgrade Planning Center – IT Professionals > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ee517214.aspx
• Developer Resource Center for upgrading SharePoint 2007 solutions to SharePoint 2010 > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ee514557.aspx
• Upgrading from SharePoint 2003 to 2010 > http://technet.microsoft.com/library/ee947141(office.14).aspx
• Download of the SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Hyper-V Virtual Machine (Upgrading from 2003 to 2010) > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c2049eb8-2131-47d0-85ed-c24548f7f27b
• WSSAnalyzefeatures Utility to find unwanted feature stubs > http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/WssAnalyzeFeatures
• WSSRemoveFeaturefromSite Utility to remove these > http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/WssRemoveFeatureFrom
• Guidance for upgrading sites with the Fabulous 40 templates > http://blogs.technet.com/b/tothesharepoint/archive/2010/08/18/sharepoint-2010-products-upgrade-and-the-fabulous-40-application-templates.aspx
• Upgrade Planning for SharePoint 2010 (Must Read Downloadable Book) > http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=196221
• Upgrade Best Practices > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261992.aspx

Planning your SharePoint 2010 Deployment

• Capacity Planning Guidelines for SP2010 > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ff601870.aspx
• Downloadable Books for Starting the deployment > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262788.aspx

Thanks to everyone for coming to the session!