Hi All, I have to migrate production env from SP2013(farm includes 2 WFEs & 1 DB server) to SP2019 and there is FBA configured on the SP2013. I have already migrated the staging environment i.e. firstly I created SP 2016 & then SP2019 farm, but in staging we do not have FBA. Only in production we are having FBA. And we will be building production environment only for SP2019. Below are the queries that I have: We are planning to migrate production SP 2013 sites to our existing Staging 2016 server and then directly to production 2019, because client does not want the extra cost of production env. for SP 2016. Please suggest if this is possible. In this case how to migrate my FBA DB from prod 2013 to 2019 prod env. (Please define steps if possible) I have managed metadata service and other services as well, so how to migrate these services (Please define steps if possible)

That depends on the services you need to be running on those server's, as of now you can choose Custom one you can always change later if you need too, but for now go with custom and select the services to be running on the each server. to know more about minrole check below article: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/administration/description-of-minrole-and-associated-services-in-sharepoint-server-2016 Thanks & Regards,

Migration from SP2013 to SP 2019

Gaurav Singh Gagwari 1

Hi All,

I have to migrate production env from SP2013(farm includes 2 WFEs & 1 DB server) to SP2019 and there is FBA configured on the SP2013.
I have already migrated the staging environment i.e. firstly I created SP 2016 & then SP2019 farm, but in staging we do not have FBA. Only in production we are having FBA.
And we will be building production environment only for SP2019.

Below are the queries that I have:

We are planning to migrate production SP 2013 sites to our existing Staging 2016 server and then directly to production 2019, because client does not want the extra cost of production env. for SP 2016. Please suggest if this is possible.
In this case how to migrate my FBA DB from prod 2013 to 2019 prod env. (Please define steps if possible)
I have managed metadata service and other services as well, so how to migrate these services (Please define steps if possible)

6 answers

Sharath Kumar Aluri 3,071 Reputation points

2020-10-31T14:14:34.95+00:00

That depends on the services you need to be running on those server's, as of now you can choose Custom one you can always change later if you need too, but for now go with custom and select the services to be running on the each server. to know more about minrole check below article:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/administration/description-of-minrole-and-associated-services-in-sharepoint-server-2016

Thanks & Regards,
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Gaurav Singh Gagwari 1 Reputation point

2020-11-02T04:29:29.393+00:00

@Sharath Kumar Aluri Thanks a lot for your response.

Currently I am having a web application on my existing 2013 prod env. whose URL is suppose "https://www.abc.com/".
So can I create the SSL enabled web application with same url in SP 2019 env., but I belive its not possible because the domain "www.abc.com" is already bind with the 2013 server machine and the SSL certificate is already configured?

If this is not possible, then can you please suggest what is the best approach to build 2019 web application so that both env. can run in together until the migration is completed, because I will be performing migration in phases.

Sharath Kumar Aluri 3,071 Reputation points

2020-11-02T17:37:10.917+00:00

That's true and that's how it is, You need to change your Web App name a little bit, you can't use the same web app and same domain for two SharePoint Farms. After migrating entire SharePoint Farm, then make a change of your 2013 Web App URL to a different one and then provide the old Web App URL to New SharePoint 2019 Farm.

Thanks & Regards,

Trevor Seward 11,691 Reputation points

2020-11-03T18:31:11.067+00:00

In general, the strategy to take here would be to leverage hosts files on your temp farm and clients that need access to that URL.

This means configuring your 2019 environment with the 'final' URL and modify the hosts file on each 2019 SharePoint server to point 'www.abc.com' to the IP of a 2019 FE. Do the same for client machines that need to test.
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Migration from SP2013 to SP 2019

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