Moving Just the MySite from SharePoint 2007 to 2010
As part of our migration plan, I would like to move just our MySite first.
By doing this first, this will allow users to still reach their MySite as the rest of the intranet is down for several hours or days.
In addition we have been really promoting our MySite’s, so we don’t want our users to be with out their shared and private data including documents while we are in this migration transition.
We will also move our a record of “navigation.yesprep.local” to temporary intranet site to show the status of the upgrade. It will also provide a link to their MySite.
I wanted to be able to do this days/weeks before we do the final full migration.
I have fully configured MySite in SharePoint 2010 with everything it needs to be fully functional.
In our test SP 2007 environment I decided to test and make sure we can make the default mysite in 07 point to 2010. And with much doubt from other SharePoint guru’s, it worked!
Here is what I did to make it work.
In the Shared Services in Central Administration, i went to My Site Settings…
I pointed the Personal Site Provider to my staging/test My Site, I also added the dynamically created site based on my settings in my SharePoint 2010 environment…
IMPORTANT: Be sure that you select “Enable My Site to support global deployments,” otherwise this simply will not work, and you will get an error message saying that this didn’t work and you won’t have any indication as to what didn’t work…
To test it, go to the SharePoint 2010’s home page, and click “My Site”
Your new MySite should now point to SharePoint 2010!!!
