Gotcha! SharePoint Online Migration Mistakes to Avoid SharePoint Saturday Chicago Suburbs Teresa Baxmeyer, SharePoint Analyst

Teresa baxmeyer Senior SharePoint Business & Technical Analyst Tweet me: @tbaxmeyer Link me: linkedin.com/in/tbaxmeyer Email me: tbaxmeyer@gmail.com www.perpetualreality.com

Agenda Why SPO? Gotchas Resources Ask me anything Migration project cycle (Planning, pre, during, post) SPO Limitations Change Adoption Tools to use Resources Ask me anything

Why SharePoint online? …we are all in the cloud anyway

Why SP Online Maintenance is streamlined Automatic Updates Cost reduction Compliance Secure Mobile Lots and lots of space

Ready to migrate? …Hold up.

Project cycle SharePoint Migration Project Post Migration Clean up Sign off Validation Verify Configure Migration Communications Moratoriums and implementation Testing What broke Rebuild, Replace, Reject Planning & Analysis Project Coordination Site mapping, customizations, clean up SharePoint Migration Project

Project gotchas! Migration team – include the right people Engaging leadership and business stakeholders – early and often Communicating to end users – often, but not too early Getting content owners input – early, often, before, during, and after Custom solutions – find them!

Project gotchas! Making decisions… IT Process, configurations, architecture Business Branding, Communications, Schedule Making decisions…

Project gotchas! Gathering information about your environment Doing a lift & shift? Moving junk and outdated content Give business partners an accurate estimate of time, and add two weeks Test, then test again. Repeat Getting stuck in a Delta cycle

SharePoint online gotchas! Updates, all the updates List item thresholds are firm Licensing, external sharing Excel Services Customizations Moving to modern experience? Web part pulling data from on prem?

Assorted gotchas! What’s not migrated? Personal views List item ratings Audience targeted web part configurations User alerts, if moved can be triggered Checked out files Minor versions “created by” value Workflow status, history, and tasks

More Assorted gotchas! URLs within documents or lists may not be updated Orphaned users Request access email Created/Modified by display name Library level settings – column default value may not be preserved Workflows: status, tasks and history

Change adoption gotchas! Tell your end users they will have to log in! Tell them again And once more for the folks in the back Provide mock ups to leadership Don’t ignore your power users Encourage use of Delve Promote mobility Prepare for an increase of tickets

Tools Just pick one?

Microsoft’s Fast Track Tools! DIY Microsoft’s Fast Track Vendor Manual work Can take a long time Considerable control Minimal support No added cost Great for OOTB sites Lots of support Geared toward OOTB installs, with a straightforward move to online. Will not collapse multiple site collections into a single site collection. Minimal help with any transformation. Costly Effective & efficient Support and resources are abundant Flexible No one size fits all tool

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Resources Office 365 Services Resource list Microsoft’s SharePoint Migration Tool Overview Microsoft’s Fast Track SharePoint Online Limits The Periodic Table of O365 The Ultimate SharePoint Migration checklist (Sharegate) O365 Migration Performance & Best Practices

Questions? Ask away!