SPFoxhole Blog

Apologies.  This is a repost.  When transferring content from old blog to new i suffered a massive brainfart.  Read on  :)

The lads and lasses in Redmond while busy hammering away at the next version of SharePoint ( SharePoint Server 2010) tossed in a nice little tool in SP2 to help us to ensure our environments are ready for the upgrade.  The PreUpgradeCheck utility is a simple to use tool that is run from the command line

    stsadm –o preupgradecheck

I ran this on my test lab and was happy to see the following result:

Guess i am ready to upgrade  :)

This tool goes one step deeper and after the completion of this tool a nice output page is displayed that further dives into your FARM and outputs some decent information.  If there are failures or issues it will be deeply highlighted in this output.    Luckily or perhaps due to some sort of skill i have built up over the years I have a pretty clean environment.  

There is some more info that I didnt capture but you should get the idea.  

So what can you take from reading this?   You have time to make ready your environments for SharePoint Server 2010…. run the tool.  See where you need to focus your attention and let this tool help you become better prepared.

*** Follow up*** thanks to Jeffery Dalton for this reminder

If your running 32Bit  or Windows Server 2003 you will FAIL when running this checker  :)   Reminder…. You MUST UPDATE YOUR ENVIORNMENTS TO 64BIT if you want to move to the next version of SharePoint   32Bit will no longer be supported.  You will see the following message in your log which explains this.

Further information can be found at:

For MOSS  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd793609.aspx

For WSS   http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd793607.aspx

Cheers