Tips & Tricks for Migrating to SharePoint Online How to make your life easier during an Migration! Presented by: Ajay Iyer - SharePoint Architect 5/14/2016 SPS Nashville

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Jeff Teper, Microsoft Corporate Vice President of OneDrive and SharePoint, will lead us in discussing the future of the platform and then take your questions. Join us at 4pm for our final SPS Nashville session for all attendees in the State Farm room (volunteers will be providing directions to the hall). What is the future of SharePoint? Discussion led by Jeff Teper

About Me SharePoint Areas of Expertise: SharePoint Infrastructure Capacity Planning Search Migrations Enterprise Content Management, Document Imaging

Agenda Current Issues with migration to Office 365 Planning & Preparation Questions/Comments

5 most common issues with SharePoint Online migrations!

Common Migration Issues “IT needs to manage the SharePoint migration” Migrations are treated as “Internal-Only” projects Confusing Permissions Migrate Content As-Is Customizations (Custom Code/Branding/3 rd Party) Too Slow!

Tips/Lessons Learned

Involve the Business Users Opportunity to revisit SharePoint Requirements before Implementation

Treat Migrations as Strategic Projects Maintain a Strict Timeline & Budgets

Identity & Access Management Cloud-Only Entities Synchronized Usernames between On-Prem & Cloud Synchronized Usernames & Passwords between On-Prem & Cloud Single Sign-On between On-Prem & Cloud

Identity & Access Management Cloud-Only Entities Users are created in Office 365 Usernames & Passwords are NOT synced with domain credentials Easiest to Setup No Single Sign-On with On-Prem Applications

Identity & Access Management Synchronized Usernames between On-Prem & Cloud (Azure AD Connect) Users are created in On-Prem Active Directory Azure AD Connect (formerly DirSync) used to synchronize usernames with the Cloud Does NOT synchronize passwords with the Cloud

Identity & Access Management Synchronized Usernames & Passwords between On-Prem & Cloud (Azure AD Connect) Users are created in On-Prem Active Directory Azure AD Connect (formerly DirSync) used to synchronize usernames & passwords with the Cloud Does NOT synchronize passwords with the Cloud

Identity & Access Management Single Sign-On between On-Prem & Cloud Azure AD (Basic or Premium) Requires Active Directory Federation Services Passwords NOT stored in the cloud Branded login Multi-Factor Authentication

Disregard Irrelevant & Outdated Content Reevaluate Information Architecture Migrate Relevant Content Fix Missing Metadata

Customizations Reevaluate need for customizations Redeploy custom code using Client-Side scripting Forms Workflows (SPD/Nintex/K2)

Customizations Custom Branded Intranets Portal vs. “Just a SharePoint Site” Look for Starter Kits

Too Slow to Migrate! Metalogix - Content Matrix AvePoint – DocAve Migrators ShareGate

Don’t Migrate it all at the same time! Do a Pilot Migration First!! TEST! TEST! TEST!

Questions/Comments

Jeff Teper, Microsoft Corporate Vice President of OneDrive and SharePoint, will lead us in discussing the future of the platform and then take your questions. Join us at 4pm for our final SPS Nashville session for all attendees in the State Farm room (volunteers will be providing directions to the hall). What is the future of SharePoint? Discussion led by Jeff Teper

Thank You!