In the earlier Sitecore Upgrade Process article, i explained that how to start with Sitecore Upgrade process and how Sitecore provided Sitecore Express Migration tool cab be utilized to move content from Sitecore Lower Version to Sitecore Higher Version.
Sitecore Upgrade Articles:
In this article, i will be explaining how different Sitecore Content Serialization tools can be used to migrate Sitecore Content from lower Sitecore Version to newer Sitecore Version.
For every Sitecore project when we start the project, we always decide in initial steps that how Sitecore Content would be moved from Sitecore Lower Environment to Sitecore Higher Environment by utilizing the available Sitecore Content Serialization tools.
In Sitecore development, to serialize the Sitecore CMS content we can utilize following tools:
We can learn more about Sitecore TDS and Sitecore Unicorn at What are the differences between TDS Classic and Unicorn?
The Sitecore TDS is commercial project and Sitecore Unicorn is open-source project.
You can find more details at Sitecore TDS Classic and Sitecore Unicorn at Sitecore TDS and Unicorn.
Both tools required Sitecore version 7.0 and higher.
In our case we are on Sitecore 6.6.0 (Initial Release) so we can’t directly use these tools, so we need to upgrade from Sitecore 6.6.0 (Initial Release) to Sitecore 7.0 rev.130424 (Initial Release) first then anyone of these Sitecore Serialization tool can be utilized:
The upgrade procedure for multiple instances depends on your environment architecture. For a single instance, you must follow all the above steps. In a scaled environment, you must repeat the above steps for each instance.
In the upcoming blog posts, I will explain details about Sitecore Analytics (xDB) Content Migration which can help you in Sitecore Upgrade Process.
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