Now that the latest and greatest version of Dynamics CRM has been released, I was ready to get hands on with the new features. Since I had my own VM (details on building a VirtualBox VM here) to mess around with, I planned on doing an in place upgrade. Please note that this is not the recommended approach especially in production environments. A new install of CRM 2013 or a migration upgrade would be the best options for stage/ prod setups.
Here are the steps to follow for an in place upgrade from CRM 2011 to CRM 2013.
Here are the steps to follow for an in place upgrade from CRM 2011 to CRM 2013.