Sharepoint 2007 to 2010 upgrade

[mtdmitchell]

Hi

im just comtemplating upgrading or 2007 SP to 2010. Has any one run the upgrade? Any tips?

im looking gat a simple in place upgrade - all our services are on one server

i have run the upgrade checker this has reported a few issues which i need to reslove

[Gatt]

I have recently upgraded from 2007 to 2010 - though would seriously recommend backing up your Sharepoint DB's as I very nearly lost it all though got it recovered
though i was trying to upgrade to the beta at the time.. after the near miss i waited for the RTM and it went through fine....

[mtdmitchell]

I have recently upgraded from 2007 to 2010 - though would seriously recommend backing up your Sharepoint DB's as I very nearly lost it all though got it recovered
though i was trying to upgrade to the beta at the time.. after the near miss i waited for the RTM and it went through fine....

did you recieve this in the pre upgrade report ? is it safe to ignore

Information Only : Customized field types that will not be upgraded.
A field type using custom Collaborative Application Markup Language (CAML) in itsRenderPattern element will not be upgraded as an XSLT-based field type. Fields based on this custom field type will be rendered without any custom formatting in Windows SharePoint Services 4.0. The following field types will not be upgraded:

HoldsField(Hold Status)
HoldStatusField(Hold Status)
HTML(Publishing HTML)
Image(Publishing Image)
Link(Publishing Hyperlink)
SummaryLinks(SummaryLinks)
LayoutVariationsField(Variations)
ContentTypeIdFieldType(Content Type ID)
BusinessData(Business data)
TargetTo(Audience Targeting)