Plan and prepare for upgrade

This Office product will reach end of support on October 10, 2017. To stay supported, you will need to upgrade. For more information, see , Resources to help you upgrade your Office 2007 servers and clients.

Topic Last Modified: 2007-08-25

In this chapter:

• Chapter overview: Plan and prepare for upgrade (Office SharePoint Server)

• Determine upgrade approach (Office SharePoint Server)

• Review supported and unsupported upgrade paths

• How the upgrade process works (Office SharePoint Server)

• How search features are affected by upgrade

• Review upgrade best practices

• Review supported topologies

• Review system requirements for upgrade (Office SharePoint Server)

• Estimate how long the upgrade process will take and the amount of space needed (Office SharePoint Server)

• Create communication plan

• Use a trial upgrade to find potential issues (Office SharePoint Server)

• Determine how to handle customizations (Office SharePoint Server)

• Develop new custom site definitions and create upgrade definition files (Office SharePoint Server)