IN order to upgrade SP 2010 to SP 2013 I have below steps and I want to understand how to upgrade layout pages created in old version of SharePoint.
1. Database Backup - Take the backup of Content database from existing SP 2010 production server environment.
2. Prepare new SP 2013 farm environment
3. Create new web application.
4. Modify web.config for “AppSetings” and “Connection String” etc.
5. Install all prerequisite on GAC.
6. Install SP 2010 custom solutions on the new SharePoint 2013 farm - create power shell command which will install solution in compatibility Level switch. Solution will be installed to both 14 and 15 hives.
7. Mount the content databases for upgrading (Supply web application URL and content database name)
8. Verify the application in 2010 compatibility mode.
9. Using power shell command or using site collection upgrades UI (screen) Upgrade the site collection.
Application is launched with default SP 2013 look and everything is working fine
Old solution /Project: we have created Custom layout pages with various zones on layouts and few default web parts on layout. For example below is one of the layout pages first lines:
Layout page Name: Home_Layout.aspx
<%@Pagelanguage="C#" Inherits="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingLayoutPage,Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing,Version=14.0.0.0,Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c"meta:progid="SharePoint.WebPartPage.Document"%>
Also added few web part on left and right zone and their reference are included on layout page with fully qualified name
So I want to know how to upgrade the layout page (best practices) considering that thousands of page created with this layout and we will migrate them up to SP 2016.
So migration path is SP 2010(current) àSP 2013àSP 2016
So do we need to install WSP created in SP 2010 on below environment as well?
- SP 2013 farm
- SP 2016 farm
I am experiencing the issue when I convert SP 2010 project to SP 2013 then it’s not working and every page shows file not found error.
Can you please suggest how to upgrade Layout pages in correct way/approach?
sharda