The following sites are using templates that are not yet supported after upgrade (or) Sites that rely on these templates cannot be upgraded at this time, preventing upgrade of this site collection

The following sites are using templates that are not yet supported after upgrade (or) Sites that rely on these templates cannot be upgraded at this time, preventing upgrade of this site collection

Issue: when we upgrade any site from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013 and that site contains custom site definitions, we face the issue.

Solution: Ensure to follow the steps below to resolve the issue.

1.   Both versions of the site definitions (14 and 15) need to be present  in respective hives at the time of performing upgrade. If either of them is not there then the above error will show up.

2.   Uninstall > Remove  and  Add > Install. This had removed the previous site definition files (one and template folder) from 14 hive and added latest files to 15 hive.

 


I hope the above information will help you to resolve the issue, in case of any queries/questions regarding the above mentioned information then please let me know. I would be more than happy to help you as well as resolves your issues, Thank you.

Database is in compatibility range and upgrade is recommended

Database is in compatibility range and upgrade is recommended

Issue: Database is in compatibility range and upgrade is recommended

Solution: Please find the below solution to upgrade the SharePoint DB.

1.    In SharePoint Central Admin click BACKUP AND RESTORE, then PERFORM A Full BACKUP.

2.    Start the SHAREPOINT 2013 MANAGEMENT SHELL (make sure you RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR

3.    CD into C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\15\BIN>

4.    Paste following command and press enter PSConfig.exe -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -force -cmd applicationcontent -install -cmd installfeatures

5.    this will take a few minutes to complete, so just wait

6.    Go back to your SharePoint Central Admin console and click MONITORING (left menu) >REVIEW PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS > if Databases Running in Compatibility Range, Upgrade Recommended still shows click on it and then click the REANALYZE NOW button on the top

7.    Hopefully it only complains about your content database and Bdc_Service_DB

How To upgrade your Content Database:

1. Paste the following into your SharePoint 2013 Management Shell Upgrade-SPContentDatabase and then enter the name of your content database at the Identity

How To upgrade your Bdc_Service_DB:

1. Paste the following into your SharePoint 2013 Management Shell (Get-SPDatabase | ?{$_.type -eq
   “Microsoft.SharePoint.BusinessData.SharedService.BdcServiceDatabase”}).Provision()

Data base is up to date but some sites are not completely upgraded:

http://expertsharepoint.blogspot.de/2014/03/data-base-is-up-to-date-but-some-sites.html

 


I hope the above information will help you to resolve the issue, in case of any queries/questions regarding the above mentioned information then please let me know. I would be more than happy to help you as well as resolves your issues, Thank you.

SharePoint Up gradation(Moss2007->sharepoint2010-> sharepoint2013)

SharePoint Up gradation(Moss2007->sharepoint2010-> sharepoint2013)                  

I am giving my personal views as per my experience on up gradation of SharePoint. If anyone has any concerns please make a comment.

Initially, we cannot directly Upgrade from Moss 2007 to SharePoint 2013.we must follow the 2 stage Upgrade process here. which means, we must upgrade MOSS 2007->SharePoint 2010 first and then SharePoint 2010->SharePoint 2013 only.

we must consider so many factors for upgrade. From SharePoint 2010->SharePoint 2013 it must be through data base attach method only. The In place upgrade method is deprecated in SharePoint 2013.We must build a new SharePoint 2013 farm for Upgrade from SharePoint 2010.providing the steps below for a single web application as in brief. We need to follow the same steps for other web applications as well to perform the upgrade.

We must take care of below before doing the up gradation.

Site templates, web parts, site themes, workflows, web templates, site definitions….

We can only do upgrade in below order only. we can’t do upgrade directly from different versions of SharePoint.

SharePoint foundation 2010 -> SharePoint foundation 2013

SharePoint server 2010-> SharePoint server 2013

SharePoint enterprise 2010-> SharePoint enterprise 2013

SharePoint, project server enterprise 2010-> SharePoint, project server enterprise 2013

There is another issue also while we upgrade the site from SP 2010->SP 2013,It should be authentication issue. Classic authentication method is deprecated in SP 2013. So to upgrade site from SP 2010->SP2013 which is created with Classic authentication in SP2010, first need to change the authentication from Classic->Claims and then upgrade in SP 2013.

1.   Build a new SharePoint 2013 farm first

2.   Go to SQL Server and take backup of the content database and restore it into your new SQL server.

3.   Create new web application and site collection in SP2013.

4.   Now remove the content database for the newly created  web application in SharePoint 2013.Follow below to do

·        Go to central Administrator

·        Click on Application Management and then

·        click on content database => Manage Content database

·        Then select the newly created web application URL in sp 2013

·        Click on the database which is on the left side.

·        Then go to remove content database part and check the checkbox then it will prompt you popup there click on then again ok button.

5.   Now test whether the web application still having relation with the content database by using the following command.

Test-SPContentDatabase-Name "name of content database"-webapplication "URL of webapplication".

6.   Now go to SQL server and delete the database related to SP 2013 manually

7.   Now restore the 2010 content data base manually.

8.   Now we need to attach the restored content database  by using following command.

Mount-SpContentDatabase-Name "Database name"-webapplication "URL of webapplication".

9.   Now we can get following error like “Upgrade completed with following errors".

10.           Finally Migration has been completed successfully

For Service Applications: we only can upgrade below 6 service applications from SP 2010->SP 2013

·        User profile

·        Managed meta data

·        BDC

·        Search

·        Performance point

·        Secure store

There is another process to upgrade service applications. We should run by power shell. 

2007 needs to be patched at SP3 to upgrade to 2010.

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Data base is Up to date but some sites are not completely upgraded

Data base is Up to date but some sites are not completely upgraded

                      Or

Product\patch installation or server upgrade required

                      

Issue: After Mount-SpcontentDatabase,having Database is up to date, but some sites are not completely upgraded. On /_admin/DatabaseStatus.aspx. When I click on the /_admin/UpgradeStatus.aspx it shows me the status Succeeded

Resolution: First of all, to identify what site collection doesn't got upgraded.

         Run: stsadm.exe -o localupgradestatus > upgradestatus.txt

or

PSConfig.exe -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -force -cmd applicationcontent -install -cmd installfeatures  (Run from one of the WFE server)

In below as you see, there no site collection that need upgrade.
If you have any, you can identify them by searching by word "Needs upgrade" in this file.                   

Secondly, run the command in the Power Shell:

For resuming the upgrade, you’ll need the ID for the database :

Get-SPContentDatabase -Identity <your content database name>

When you got the GUID for the database you can then resume the upgrade

         upgrade-spcontentdatabase -id <database GUID>

Finally, check the upgrade status by running stsadm again:

   stsadm.exe -o localupgradestatus > upgradestatus.txt

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