Replacing SharePoint toxic serves - Guidelines?

CHRISTEEN MATHEW 1 Reputation point
2021-03-10T09:31:01.763+00:00

I am working on replacing toxic servers(Windows 2008 R2) with new servers Windows 2012 R2. Below are the steps I completed.

We are not replacing DB sever as it already Windows 2012 R2. Im only replacing 2 Web servers, 1 App server and 1 search server. Following are the steps I did till now.

  1. Installing preqs and SP 2013 in new severs
  2. Made new sever as same patch level of the existing servers
  3. Running PS Config in new severs to add them to current farm connecting to current config DB.
  4. Setting search topology with new servers.

My next step is to change the load balancer pointing to new web servers - Before Im doing that I just want to know If there anything else that I should be alert on. My few worries are below. Please guide me.

  • What about hosted custom applications(webparts) in the farm
  • Layout folder and master pages?
  • InfoPath form templates in CA?
  • Other things that I should care about while replacing servers.

My question is, would all above thing automatically transferred to new severs on adding servers to new farm/enabling services? Or What are the steps I should perform additionally to make new farm exactly same as the old one.

Any help/blog would be greatly appreciated.

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  1. Elsie Lu_MSFT 9,761 Reputation points
    2021-03-11T07:37:17.577+00:00

    Hi @CHRISTEEN MATHEW ,

    Per my understanding, the stored content in SP will not change because all the content is stored in the DB.

    I have found some instructive official documents for you wich you could have a look. Hope it helps. :)

    Add web or application servers to farms in SharePoint 2013
    Remove a server from a farm in SharePoint 2013

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