The documentation at https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt219041.aspx speaks of a FIM 2010 R2 upgrade to MIM 2016. But I've got a customer who still has a FIM 2010 who is now looking to upgrade to MIM 2016.

The target situation is to have all MIM 2016 software on new servers installed. Will the MIM 2016 installer be able to update the FIM 2010 databases? Or do we need to to a FIM 2010 -> FIM 2010 R2 -> MIM 2016 upgrade?

Could this be a possible strategy:

• Stop FIM 2010 services
• Backup database (duh :) )
• Move database to newer SQL version
• Start setup of MIM Sync/MIM Service
• Point to relocated database and upgrade database
• Have an upgraded environment

My best bet would be a trial-and-error approach in a lab. Won't take much time.

I have this on my list but didnt perform it yet, though.

With product release two days ago I highly doubt that anyone already upgraded either in test or production :D

Yeah we have an environment we use for testing that is useable for this purpose. But I thought I'd ask anyhow :)

In case anyone is wondering, here's how I managed to do the upgrade:

http://setspn.blogspot.be/2015/08/fim-2010-not-r2-upgrade-to-mim-2016.html