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Jupiter82
May 04, 2022Copper Contributor
Move SharePoint 2016 on prem environment to Windows 2019 and SQL 2019
Question: What steps should be taken to move our current environment: SharePoint 2016 On-Premise on Windows 2012 R2 with SQL Server 2012 on Windows Server 2012 R2 to SharePoint 2016 On Premise Wi...
Warwick Ward
May 10, 2022Bronze Contributor
yeah as above, pretty straight forward operation.
1. Configure new farm exactly the same as the existing
- Install SharePoint
- Configure Services using same service accounts setup
- Configure Web Applications the same (Service Accounts, DNS, Hostnames e.t.c)
- Install any solutions
- set old farm to read-only, backup and restore all (content and service, not all required google which ones are) databases to new sql (overwriting existing is they existing in testing/setup)
- Change DNS entries to point to new server
- Decomissions old servers
1. Configure new farm exactly the same as the existing
- Install SharePoint
- Configure Services using same service accounts setup
- Configure Web Applications the same (Service Accounts, DNS, Hostnames e.t.c)
- Install any solutions
- set old farm to read-only, backup and restore all (content and service, not all required google which ones are) databases to new sql (overwriting existing is they existing in testing/setup)
- Change DNS entries to point to new server
- Decomissions old servers