1. Real World : Migrating Site Collections to SharePoint 2013
Marrell Sanders – Sr. SharePoint Administrator SharePoint Saturday Dallas / Ft.Worth | March 7th, 2015

2. Who Am I Marrell Sanders, MCTS Contact
SharePoint Administrator – IT Pro
Applications Instructor
Senior Web Consultant (MS Group IT)
Contact
Blog:
Twitter: twitter.com/TechRevMarrell

3. What is this session about?
Migrating SharePoint site collections.
Migration content into SharePoint 2013, Office 365
Planning and Pitfalls
Tools and Resource to get it done.
Real World examples

4. Upgrade SharePoint VS Site Migration VS Content Migration
Upgrade SharePoint = Database Upgrades
Site Migration = Site level move
Content Migration = Libraries, Lists, or Importing from other locations.
Who’s the real MVP?
My friends, uncles, co- workers, nephew said…

5. What’s your plan? How will you get from Point A to Point B?
Reality is it’s usually from Point A to Point Z?
“Failing to plan is still a plan. It just usually costs more time and money.” (tweetable)
Tweetable Syllabification: tweet·able Pronunciation: /ˈtwēdəb(ə)l/ Definition of tweetable in English: adjective Suitable for posting on the social media site Twitter:

6. What’s your plan?
Get the right people together in order to ask the right questions!
Questions Spreadsheet -> Workflow Image

7. What’s your plan? Get Checklist(s) Get Inventory Get Permission
Get Schedule
SharePointMigrationChecklist

8. How do I do the move? SharePoint 2007 Sites?
DB Attach to SP2010
stsadm.exe -o preupgradecheck
If you have customizations in your 2007 sites, prepare to push back that vacation you had planned. (Or your admins)

9. How do I do the move? SharePoint 2007 Sites? DB Attach to SP2010
Analyze the report and Fix the following settings: • Identify any third party components used and deploy them to SharePoint and SharePoint 2013 site. E.g. Nintex, 3rd party features, including web parts, solutions and custom workflows • Setup Incoming/Outgoing settings in SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013environment • Modified Web.Config entries • Configure Alternate Access Mappings (AAM) • Find the missing webpart, event receivers or features if any and delete them

10. How do I do the move? SharePoint 2007 Sites? DB Attach to SP2010
Analyze the report and Fix the following settings: • Backup the databases from the Old SQL instance • Restored the databases in the new SQL instance • Modified Web.Config entries • Configure Alternate Access Mappings (AAM) • Find the missing webpart, event receivers or features if any and delete them

11. How do I do the move? Third Party tools such as:
Sharegate
Ave Point
Metalogix
Metavis
Dell
Varonis
Etc…
(note: This is not an official ranking of Top to Bottom vendors.)

12. How do I do the move w/Content Only?
3rd Party Tool
Preserves Meta Data in content
Modified By, Modified Date, Library Column data
Reporting
Scheduling
Versioning
Has some intelligence
Explorer View
Lose Previous Meta Data
Visual Comparison tool
Shortcut Key Scheduling
Fire and Forget Technology

13. Real World Applications
1.moved 300GB of data from SharePoint 2003 to SharePoint (Failed scenario’s when explorer view copy and paste, due to network hiccups etc)
2.600 site collections in SharePoint > SharePoint 2010, 2013.
Real World Applications
Moving file shares of data into Departmental libraries with specific meta tagging.
Take advantage of newer technologies o365, SharePoint 2013 newsfeed.
Yammer!!!
Why would I ever want to do this?

14. Pitfalls and Limitations
Time investment
Resource investment
Coordination efforts
Hardware Specifications
Complexities
Customizations
Versioning

15. Questions
Additional Resources: #SPSDFW blog post for downloads migration-using-database-attach-method/