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Create, correct and test Sharepoint Online via developer site?
Hi,
I have a dilemma in that we have an SPO site (live production) which came over from an old SBS deployment a few years back into our O365 tenant (using ShareGate) as a lift & shift with the intention of a phase 2 to reshape Sharepoint and the baggage that was brought with it.
Wind on a few years, and nothing has been done since other than more of a dog's breakfast with classic sites, broken inheritance all over the show and poorly managed permissions without governance.
I am looking to introduce...
>governance
>modernisation
>sorting out permissions
>housekeeping through ownership and delegation
...but I am struggling to figure out how to proceed from the 2nd point onwards.
Problem #1 - assessing my situation re modernisation
I have downloaded and run the modernisation scanner and it tells me the top level (tenant site) cannot be modernised. I then ran it against a subsite, and the output is showing "contoso" sites!! Any idea why? I am using https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/transform/modernize-scanner for reference.
Problem #2 - going about the changes
Do I start implementing changes in the live site, or can/should I rather create a developer site called DEV for example, and then copy each subsite to that location to carry out modernisation, permissions change, etc. and then migrate that site back to replace the original?
Developer site creation ... https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/sp-add-ins/create-a-developer-site-on-an-existing-office-365-subscription
Any help greatly appreciated!!
Thanks.
2 Replies
- I will suggest you create a developer tenant (it's free) https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/developer-program/microsoft-365-developer-program-get-started and do all your testing and implementation before implementation on your live tenant.
Dhammy2022 thanks. But, this is only free for 90 days and I have a lot of SPO to go through - which is not even my real day job.
Is there any other way to do this ... like create a new site within the Site Collection called Development say, and then Migrate a copy of all the other subsites to this one and work on them there? Once subsites are sorted out (structure, permissions, etc.) to migrate them back. Would this allow for retention of new permissions, etc. after migration? Or is this simply a bad idea?
Thanks.
J
