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SharePoint Thing a Day – 033 – Migration. The Whole Process.

January 2, 2018 by Joel Jeffery

The Whole Process

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The playbook for a successful migration to SharePoint Online usually goes like this:

1. Plan communications and support for the business
2. Inventory your content and customisations
3. Prepare to clean up any content and customisations you don’t need
4. Select a migration tool – preferably one that supports delta or incremental top-ups
5. Plan the migration including any steps to redevelop and restyle
6. Remember to coordinate your migration plan with the business to minimise impact
7. Perform a test migration with a representative subset of content and customisations
8. Test it works!
9. Perform the full migration
10. Test it works again!

But often, step 8 onwards is more like this:

8. Break your migration plan into manageable chunks
9. Establish your to-be SharePoint Online structure
10. Migrate, then test, one chunk of content at a time, making each one live as you go
11. Repeat until complete

When all this is done, keep your old SharePoint Server environment around in read only mode until you are happy to finally decommission it.

Filed Under: SharePoint, SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2016, Training Tagged With: migration, Office 365, SharePoint, SharePoint Online, SharePoint Videos, SPThingADay

SharePoint Thing a Day – 032 – Migration. Little Gotchas – 06.

January 1, 2018 by Joel Jeffery

Little Gotchas – 06

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Today’s lesson: Beware! Customisations everywhere!

You must evaluate every piece of customisation in your SharePoint estate to see if it needs to be migrated, and whether it is safe to do so.

Identify custom and third-party code:

Full Trust DLLs, Farm Solutions, Sandbox Solutions. Almost all of those will have to go, be rewritten or an alternative found.

Identify SharePoint Designer customisations:

If users have used Advanced Mode to edit a page in SharePoint Designer, this may cause problems moving to SharePoint Online. Audit them all: replace or throw away?

Identify custom JavaScript and third-party libraries:

Moving from 2013 to SharePoint Online, these scripts may work, but only for “Classic” Pages. For Modern Page support, you must replace or redevelop with SharePoint Framework.

Identify Workflows:

Review each one before migration, to make sure that any embedded or hard-coded URLs or identifiers can be updated to reflect your new environment.

Filed Under: SharePoint, SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2016, Training Tagged With: migration, office365, SharePoint, SharePoint Online, SharePoint Videos, SPThingADay

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Joel is a full-stack cloud architect who codes. He is a Microsoft Certified SharePoint Online, SharePoint Server and Azure specialist and Microsoft Certified Trainer.
He has over 20 years' experience with SharePoint and the Microsoft .NET Framework.
He's also co-founder of Microsoft Gold Partner JFDI Consulting Ltd. Read More…

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