TFS with WSS 3 to SharePoint Foundation 2010 upgrade

During the weekend we successfully upgraded a production server from TFS2010Beta2/WSS3 to TFS 2010 RTM/SharePoint Foundation2010 RTM. The new challenge in this, apart from the usual upgrade of a production server, was to include upgrading WSS3 to SharePoint Foundation 2010.

Migration scenario
In this case we went for the Server Migration/upgrade scenario, which is very good if you need to verify and test our upgrade routines. This was very important as we to include the move from WSS to SharePoint Foundation 2010 in the upgrade and the WSS upgrade procedure hasn't made it into the official installation documentation yet, so we had to find the right way before we went for the big move.

Don't forget the InstanceId
If you migrate your server to a new hardware for testing purposes, or simply keeps the original server on the network, you have to change the instanceid of your server. Buck Hodges has a post on this, including information on how to change instanceid in TFS 2010. http://blogs.msdn.com/buckh/archive/2006/10/17/creating-a-new-server-from-an-old-one-beware-of-the-instanceid.aspx

Installation of SharePoint Foundation 2010
This was really simple, once I got the install of SharePoint Foundation 2010 right. Sadly to say it took me several tries getting a new unwanted separate SQL instance for SharePoint. If you want to use your existing SQL instance you have to select Server Farm installation and then Complete Server Farm. IF you select that path, you can point out your existing SQL Server instance during configuration.

Upgrade from WSS to SharePoint Foundation 2010
Searching for information how to upgrade tfs & wss to SPF 2010 I found this posts http://sharepointgeorge.com/2009/upgrading-content-database-sharepoint-2010-database-attach-method/
During verification of content db it prompted for two non blocking missing components, as expected, as I had not configured TFS and it SharePoint extensions yet.
Attaching the content db using stsadm -o addcontentdb -url -databasename resulted in an attached and upgraded content database up and running according to the Managed content databases pages in SharePoint Central Administration. Browsing to team project portals did howevere not work at this stage.

After configuring TFS and upgrading the team project collection witch installs the TFS add-ons to SharePoint, browsing to the project portals worked fine as far as we could se.

The upgrade process in short steps
Install Server roles according to TFS installation
Install SQL Server according to TFS installation
Install SQL Server SP1 Cumulative update package 2, KB 970315 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970315)
Restore Reporting Services

• Stop Reporting services
• Restore backup,
• Start
• Restore encryption keys
• Remove Orginal server from scale out deployment
• Verify

Install SharePoint Foundation 2010 PreReq
Restart
Install SharePoint Foundation

• Select Server Farm,
• Select Complete
• Configure
• Create New Farm
• Use existing SQL server

Install Team Foundation Server
Import wss3 content database

• Verify using SharePoint 2010 Management Shell and run Test-SPContentDatabase –Name -WebApplication
• 2 Missing components
• Attach database stsadm -o addcontentdb -url -databasename

Configure TFS
Upgrade team project collection
Update Instance Id

• iisreset /stop
• tfsconfig changeserverid /sqlinstance: /databasename:Tfs_Configuration
• tfsconfig registerdb /sqlinstance: /databaseName:Tfs_Configuration
• iisreset /start
• net start tfsjobagent