How do I copy whole farm in 2013 Test to 2013 Production or is this more trouble than worth?

Hi,
We are migrating from SharePoint 2010 farm to a TEST SharePoint 2013 farm as Microsoft recommend. The test farm is almost complete. The Host Url Site Collections under the main Web Application all use a Sharepoint UAT prefix style name i.e. SUAT<unique
name>. I want to be able to move everything from TEST farm to Production in one foul swoop i.e. Service Applications. How can I do this - farm-backup? Or should I update the Service Applications and restore my Host Url Site Collections without prefix with
powershell script I have or is this more trouble then it's worth.
Thanks.
John.

Hi John,
Step 1 is straight forward; you are upgrading content from the 2010 to the 2013 version.  I agree with the recommendation to move to a testing environment as a best practice.  However, setting up your pre-production and moving the content there
will save effort.
Moving content and containers between 2013 test to 2013 production is a matter of copying and attaching databases.  The trick is the farm level configurations, as they cannot be easily "copied."  There are some steps to save effort, for
instance the Term Store can be exported (https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/office/PowerShell-for-SharePoint-a838b5d0).  However you really need to plan for building two sets of service applications.
Also, make sure you plan for deploying any Apps or Features between test and production.
There are 3rd party tools to simplify this, my firm has a tool DocAve Deployment Manager.  But before taking the plunge on any of this additional effort, be sure that using a pre-production farm is not best for you.  This
is especially true if it will be offline until after the full migration.
Hope this helps,
Al
Al Lombardi, MCSE, CSM
Premier Field Engineer – AvePoint, Inc.
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