Monday, March 8, 2010

Administration Task - Moving Farm environments

Scenario : A web application hosted on a multi server farm needs to be moved to a single server farm using the same shared database instance.

Implementation :
1. Build the single server farm environment from scratch and bring it upto the service pack level of the multi-server farm
2. Create the new web application
3. Install all solutions, perform custom farm configurations required by the web application
4. Detach the databases from the source farm (multi-server) web application.
5. Attach the databases to the destination farm (single server) web application

Test, Test, Test.

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