Hello SP Community
I need to know if the following is possible:
I am migrating some DBs from SP2010 to a whole new SP 2013 farm/environment. My steps are:
- Create a classic Web App in the SP2013 farm
- Restore 2010 DBs to the new SQL server
- Test the DBs against the 2013 Web App
- Mount the DBs to the 2013 Web App
- Convert to Claims
- Now the question is, if I have done this job last month, and I know wants to get it up to date with bacup-files of the 2010 DB, would it be possible just to roll the backup out on the 2013 Claims Web App.
- Or do I have to cleane up/delete everything from my SP2013 farm and then again do the migration process?
I really hope that I do not have to go with the last.
Emo…
To expand a little further…
Create a web app with classic mode auth.
Mount your classic db there.
Convert the classic db to claims.
Dismount off the temporary web app
Mount on your production web app.
For example.
Please note that I have heavily relied on the book Professional SharePoint 2013 Administration to get this done… Chapter 5 has all the instructions.
WSS_Content is the production database that is in classic mode authentication from SP2010.
# p136 create empty web app used for migrating the WSS_Content db in classic auth mode.
New-SPWebApplication -name “Classic Web App” -url http://sp2013:1099 -ApplicationPool “ClassicAppPool” -ApplicationPoolAccount (Get-SPManagedAccount “mydomain\SP_Pool2013”) -DatabaseName WSS_Content_Classic
Test-SPContentDatabase -Name WSS_Content -WebApplication http://sp2013:1099 -ShowLocation
Mount-SPContentDatabase -Name WSS_Content -WebApplication http://cfcsp2013:99
# now that we migrated (with errors related to some features), lets do the claims conversion.
Convert-SPWebApplication -Identity http://cfcsp2013:99 -To Claims -RetainPermissions -From LEGACY
#ok… Done… Now, lets dismount and mount the db from the old web app to the new
Dismount-SPContentDatabase “WSS_Content”
Mount-SPContentDatabase -Name WSS_Content -WebApplication http://portal.test.local/
Should be mounted now in claims mode…
