SharePoint SP2 – Pre Upgrade Checker is much more than preparing for SharePoint 2010

 

Overview

The Pre Upgrade Checker is much more than just a preparation tool for 2010, its a tool that checks the overall health of your SharePoint environment with a variety of best practices.  The best practices are written in as rules that can be changed or updated.  The rules are stored in %COMMONPROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\CONFIG\PREUPGRADECHECK directory (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd793609.aspx#bk_rules)

Top 5 uses for the New Pre Upgrade Checker from Top to Bottom of the Report

• Total Database Size in Farm
• Know which Language Packs Installed
• MIA Features
• Large Lists and Libraries (Over 5000 Items)
• Identify Orphan Sites

Link to the Pre Upgrade Checker kb article:  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960577/

Sample Output:

The tool creates a web-based report for viewing, it would be quite easy to  modify this tool to automatically publish this page, and I would recommend setting up a task to run this report on a regular basis. 

Raw details on the size and scope of the farm:

Feature List:

I have quite a few features installed on development farm:

Information Only : Feature Information

The following features are either installed or referenced by the content

• Name = [PublishingStapling], Feature id = [001f4bd7-746d-403b-aa09-a6cc43de7942], Reference count = [1], Scope = [Farm], Status = [Installed]
• Name = [BasicWebParts], Feature id = [00bfea71-1c5e-4a24-b310-ba51c3eb7a57], Reference count = [29], Scope = [Site], Status = [Installed]
• Name = [XmlFormLibrary], Feature id = [00bfea71-1e1d-4562-b56a-f05371bb0115], Reference count = [70], Scope = [Web], Status = [Installed]
• Name = [AdminLinks], Feature id = [fead7313-ae6d-45dd-8260-13b563cb4c71], Reference count = [1], Scope = [Web], Status = [Installed]

… (About 50 More rows)…

• Name = [Unknown], Feature id = [a0469885-9321-ef56-51f8-c945cd70e9ee], Reference count = [1], Scope = [Web], Status = [Missing]