How to Upgrade SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013 Using PowerShell

If you have a site collection and want to upgrade from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013 with PowerShell, then this blog will give you step-by-step to do this a bit easier.

Go to Central Adminstration, create New Site and in Select Experience Version choose 2010. (Example: My site is Home).

The Home page is created in SharePoint 2010 as:

Open SharePoint 2013 Management Shell and Run as Administrator.

Enter command: Upgrade-SPSite http://server/sitecollection -VersionUpgrade (for example Upgrade-SPSite http://vngo15sql2/home -VersionUpgrade).

Wait until you see the following message:

Then, go to your site and launch it.

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