Considerations for the migration

You should consider the following information before undertaking the Sharepoint 2010 to 2013 migration process:

• Database schemas and Site Collection upgrades is a separate process. Site Collection owners can preview changes prior to committing changes.
• The SharePoint upgrade keeps a SharePoint 2010 ‘native’ format by providing a 14 and 15 hive on web servers.
• Aurea recommends that Classic mode authentication (NTLM) web applications be converted to claims based authentication before the migration, though Microsoft provides a process on SharePoint 2013 to accomplish this.
• Aurea Social for SharePoint 2013 requires SSL to communicate with the SharePoint object model. This means that even if users don’t access your migrated sites over SSL, you need to have created and installed an SSL certificate for your web applications on your new 2013 farm, along with appropriate alternate access mappings.
• You have to set your SharePoint 2010 content databases to read-only during the migration process to SharePoint 2013.