The practicalities of upgrading to SharePoint 2010
James Lappin
Posted on March 10th, 2010
In a recent episode of the MOSS Show podcast Hilton Giesenow interviewed two highly experienced SharePoint administrators, Todd Klindt and Shane Young. Todd and Shane described the options for upgrading from SharePoint 2007 to 2010, and why they think the upgrade will be a boon for hardware manufacturers. If you are running SharePoint 2007 you will only have two options for upgrading to SharePoint 2010: An in-place upgrade: SharePoint goes through all your content databases and converts them to SharePoint 2010. It does it all in one go, on the same hardware, with everything staying at the same url address as previously A database attach upgrade: you keep your SharePoint 2007 farm running, and set up a brand new server farm to run SharePoint…