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Hi, I wrote a post a few weeks ago with regard to Sitecore upgrading from 7.2 to 8.1. Everything went well, except  I couldn't get Experience Profiles from historical data. I contacted with Sitecore support and after a few weeks I received the script for xDB's Contacts collection. I ran that script, performed the report db rebuild process (which is described here ) and the result was more than 3 million document in sitecore_analytics_index. So everything is working well after the upgrade process . Here is the mongo script:

Hi, I made a post few days ago with regard to Sitecore upgrading. After upgrading our site, we have decided to move it to Azure. Well, I'm new in Azure deployment, so I followed Azure related documents from http://doc.sitecore.net . Everything went well, until I tried to deploy the site to Azure. At certain point, I received the following exception: I tried to find the solution on other blogs / community forum without any success. Then, I checked Sitecore.Azure.dll and Sitecore.Kernel.dll and I realized, there are some changes in Sitecore.Configuration.Factory class ("ExpandIncludeFiles" was removed from Factory), so I have contacted with Sitecore support and waiting for a patch. So if you host your solution in Azure, I suggest to wait for the patch.

In the following post, I would like to share my experiences with regard to Sitecore upgrading and highlight some points. We have a project which is running on Sitecore 7.2 update 4. (This project was originally developed on Sitecore 6.5, but we upgraded it a few months ago) We have decided to upgrade that project to 8.1.  Probably you know there are more ways to move a project to Sitecore 8. e.g: You can create a new Sitecore 8 instance and transfer your content into the new instance. But we wanted to try the in-place upgrade process when the process modifies the existing instance. Moreover, we were curious how we can move old DMS data to xDB.  Step 1: Upgrade to 7.5 (Initial release) If you are already on Sitecore 7.2 you can move your solution to 7.5. Probably this is the hardest and slowest part of the path. Note: Always read and follow the upgrade notes from Sitecore before you start.  Before you start 7.5 upgrade, you will need: 7.5 update package (in...