1.1 Introduction Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 has been designed for scale and performance and as such requires new hardware and software requirements. There are 3 major steps while upgrading. 1. Plan and Prepare 2. Perform a database attach upgrade 3. Verify upgrade 1.2 Plan and Prepare Before we run any process to upgrade from Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010, we have to determine which upgrade approach to take. In our scenario, Database Attach Upgrade seems to be appropriate approach to follow. We can upgrade the content for the environment on a separate farm. The result is that you do not upgrade any of the services or farm settings. You can upgrade the databases in any order and upgrade several databases at the same time. While each database is being upgraded, the content in that database is not available to users. 1.2.1 Upgrade Approach A database attach upgrade enables you to move to...