Hello All,
We have a single-server deployment of WSS 3.0 SP3, which is part of a single-server TFS 2010 SP1 deployment. As part of our upgrade strategy to move to TFS 2012, we would like to upgrade the WSS 3.0 SP3 to SharePoint Foundation 2013. We do not want to scale-out our TFS deployment to use a remote SharePoint deployment - in other words TFS, SQL, and SharePoint (WSS) are presently all on the same machine and we want to keep it that way.
I am presently testing upgrade paths in a test environment, with a configuration which closely matches our production environment. So-far I've successfully performed an in-place upgrade from WSS 3.0 SP3 to SharePoint Foundation 2010 SP1. I appear to be at an impasse as far as taking the next steps to upgrading to SharePoint Foundation 2013 on this single-server because:
- SharePoint Foundation 2013 no longer supports the in-place upgrade path - only the database detach/attach method.
- To establish SharePoint Foundation 2013 Single-Server Farm, I would either need to uninstall 2010, or deploy 2013 to a different machine. If I uninstall 2010, then I can't reference it during the 2013 deployment/configuration, and we don't want to provision a separate machine (either physical or virtual) for the 2013 farm.
I am not a SharePoint expert - so I'm getting out of my depth here. Our existing deployment was automagically configured by TFS 2010, which installed and configured WSS for us, and subsequently the in-place upgrade to SharePoint 2010 handled the upgrade smoothly and didn't require in-depth expertise.
In the end, we want to arrive at a SharePoint Foundation 2013 single-server deployment that replaces the existing SharePoint Foundation 2010 deployment, on the same server. Can anyone point me to a step-by-step process to accomplish this?