One of the decks that I presented at the SharePoint Best Practices Conference was a deck titled “Upgrading Your SharePoint Applications.” One of the requests was for me to post the deck — which I wanted to check with the Microsoft P&P group on first. You see they created the deck, I did a few minor tweaks, and then presented it. So it’s really their handy work. Anyway, I forgot to ask them about it until yesterday when I saw the rest of the team working on the SharePoint Guidance again face-to-face. So, the deck is available now.

One note, the Microsoft official answer on upgrading content types is to do it programmatically once the initial XML for the content type has been laid down. I disagree with this because it makes it harder to manage the content type. My recommendation is to use a feature receiver to synchronize child content types with the content type in the XML. I’ve used this and it works fine. The push back from MS was that there may be issue. (i.e. they’ve not tested it.) Because this isn’t my deck, the deck still says to use code. Other than that I agree with what’s in the deck.