Comments on: How to upgrade from SharePoint 2013 to SharePoint 2019 Step by Step (Part 1)

By: mohammad

mohammad — Sun, 08 Nov 2020 17:09:21 +0000

hi bro
thanks for your document.
i do upgrade from your document but i have problem after upgrade .
i see my site by when i want to change anything i give back problem such as server was unable to save the form and another error.
i cant change in my issue list for example but i can see and change site look 🙁

By: Miguel Isidoro

Miguel Isidoro — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 17:29:24 +0000

In reply to Arnold.

Hello Arnold,

You will have to upgrade to at least SharePoint Server 2013 Standard Edition before you can upgrade to SharePoint 2016 (take a look at https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/25485.upgrade-from-sharepoint-foundation-2013-to-sharepoint-server-2013.aspx).
I highly recoomend going for SharePoint 2019 instead of SharePoint 2016 if you can or better yet migrate to SharePoint Online and Office 365.
To get more details in the advantages of moving to OFfice 365 take a look at https://blogit.create.pt////miguelisidoro/2019/07/29/why-your-business-should-migrate-to-sharepoint-online-and-office-365-the-value-offer-part-1/ and https://blogit.create.pt////miguelisidoro/2019/07/29/why-your-business-should-migrate-to-sharepoint-online-and-office-365-the-value-offer-part-2/.

By: Arnold

Arnold — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 09:50:42 +0000

Hi Miguel:

If we using SharePoint Foundation 2013, do we need to upgrade to SharePoint Server 2013 before migrate to SharePoint 2016?

By: Miguel Isidoro

Miguel Isidoro — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 21:09:59 +0000

In reply to Vladimir.

Hello Vladirmir,

Unfortunetly, there is no direct migration path between SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint 2019 and the migration path is the one explained in this post.
Take a look at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/upgrade-and-update/upgrade-from-sharepoint2013-to-sharepointserver-2019 for additional information.

Hope this helps!

Thanks,
Miguel

By: Vladimir

Vladimir — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 15:07:30 +0000

Hi Miguel ! Gare thanks for you article ! We going to migrate big Share Point 2013 portal to Share Point 2019 and we cant understand Why we must use tree stage migration Share Point 2013-Share point 2016 -Saher Point 2019 Why we cant reconnect Share Point 2016 database directly to Share Point 2019? Do we need repair it from backup ? Can we do so restore data and recoonect databse to Share Point 2016 and then rdisconnect and reconnect to Share Point 2019 ?

By: Miguel Isidoro

Miguel Isidoro — Sun, 26 Apr 2020 14:50:59 +0000

In reply to Tiago.

Hello Tiago,

From my experience, yes, you can. You just need to add the solutions to the farm (using Add-SPSolution PowerShell command) but no need to deploy them in the temporary SharePoint 2016 farm.
The upgrade process will show you some warning while you are attaching the content databases in the temporary SharePoint 2016 farm but none of these warnings should be upgrade blocking and you can then backup the content databases in the temporary farm and move them to the target SharePoint 2019 farm.

In the SharePoint 2019 farm, you will have to deploy them (make sure the the custom developments are migrated and tested before this).

Thanks,
Miguel

By: Tiago

Tiago — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 10:54:57 +0000

Hi Miguel!
Thanks for this well detailed right-up.

There is one point that I don’t understand completely:
“SharePoint 2016: If you have custom developed farm solutions, add all the exported WSPs (without deploying them) in the temporary SharePoint 2016 farm. ”

Can we get away by not deploying the solutions? No errors while upgrading the DBs?

By: Miguel Isidoro

Miguel Isidoro — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 23:43:19 +0000

In reply to Grégoire. Thanks for the feedback!

By: Grégoire

Grégoire — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 15:37:49 +0000

Very good post! Thank you very much for this valuable information.

By: Miguel Isidoro

Miguel Isidoro — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 22:09:40 +0000

In reply to david.

Hello, I just update both posts (part 1 and part 2) to have the PowerShell scripts.

You can download the script for SharePoint 2016 migration (temporary environment) at https://github.com/miguelisidoro/SharePoint/blob/master/PowerShell/SharePoint2016/Migrations/SP2016_MigrationFiles.zip and the SharePoint 2019 scripts at https://github.com/miguelisidoro/SharePoint/blob/master/PowerShell/SharePoint2019/Migrations/SP2019_MigrationFiles.zip.