Sign up ×  I'm about to perform a DB migration of an Intranet
Publishing Site. Is it necessary to create the site collection
before performing the DB restore?  share|improve this question
FYI.. I'm removing the 2007/2010 tags from your Migration
questions since you have that information elsewhere in the
questions and these aren't necessarily version specific. –  Kit
Menke Aug 8 '12 at 18:50  2 Answers 2  up vote 3 down vote
accepted  To be clearer, you actually only need an Web
Application to which you would attach the database. I would
highly recomand before doing that go through checking/testing at
least by using:    1. Test-SPContentDatabase which will tell you
if you got all other dependencies installed, etc. (   2. Run
pre-upgrade checker (see here  Also you would need at least MOSS
with SP2 to be able to run these commands. There is so much
documentation written on the subject. Start here  share|improve
this answer It seems preupgradecheck tool was updated with the
Oct 2009 CU. So people would need to u