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Visual Upgrade SharePoint 2010 (Easy Way and "Hard" Way)

Two ways to trigger the SharePoint 2010 visual upgrade after migrating from MOSS 2007 — via the UI and via PowerShell using UIVersion.

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Hey everyone!

Today I was testing a migration from our client portal from MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010.

After the stsadm preupgradecheck and a few errors, the rest went smooth. Once migrated, I noticed the look & feel was still 2007 — because of the visual upgrade setting.

You can trigger the visual upgrade two ways.

Option 1: Via the UI

Go to the top-level site → Site Actions → Site Settings → under “Site Collection Administration” → Visual Upgrade.

Option 2: Via PowerShell

Let’s admit it, we’ve all been waiting to use this wonderful language. Here’s the script (you can also do the same in C# code):

$site = Get-SPSite("sitecollectionurl")
foreach ($web in $site.AllWebs) {
    $web.UIVersion = 4
    $web.Update()
}
  • UIVersion = 4 → SharePoint 2010 look & feel
  • UIVersion = 3 → SharePoint 2007 look & feel

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