After a test upgrade to sharepoint 2016, for the live upgrade, can i just re-upgrade the content databases

Question

We are upgrading to sharepoint 2016 (from sharepoint 2013) using the database attach method.

i.e. we created a new sharepoint 2016 environment on new servers

We did a test migration by migrating and upgrading the service application databases ( to create new service applications with migrated data), and then upgrading the content database ( copied from the 2013 environment).

We now need to repeat for the live migration.

Rather than starting again from scratch - if nothing has changed in the service applications, can we just remove the 2016 content database ( from central admin) - then restore the content database (re-copied from the 2013 environment) and re-upgrade it using mount-spcontentdatabase ?

Answer 1

Hi @Greg Booth ,

In order to better complete the upgrade, it is recommended that you strictly follow the upgrade steps, thank you for your support and understanding.

There are some articles for your reference:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/upgrade-and-update/best-practices-for-upgrade

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/upgrade-and-update/get-started-with-upgrade

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