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keetaya80
Brass Contributor
Feb 28, 2019

InfoPath 2010 to SharePoint Online Migration Feasibility

Hi   we have following scenarios to migrate Infopath 2010 to SharePoint Online. We do understand the long term solution is Power Apps regardless of the scenario. But lets think in short term we nee...
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jcgonzalezmartin
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Feb 28, 2019
First thing I would do is plan this migration carefully: How are you going to do the migration? Using a third party migration tool? If so, you could test your non-code scenarios to see if with a migration tool is enough...if not you might need to migrate the data model used in the InfoPath forms and then publish the forms to SPO
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keetaya80
Brass Contributor
Feb 28, 2019

Tools will be metalogix. However, question is how these 7 different scenarios will behave once the migration done and what the remedies supposed to be to get them worked. e..g scenario 1, the remidy suppose to be re-configure the people pickers with Azure identity service?

 

I have not receive satisfactorily answers for these so far in the research, hence the question raised here

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    jcgonzalezmartin
    MVP
    Feb 28, 2019
    Well, as long as your forms does not have managed code they should work in SPO...and I say "they should" because I don't know how your forms are built and I cannot ensure you are going to face issues when publishing in SPO that's we I recommend you to start a test as soon as possible...just take a form where you have implemented points 1-5, publish it to SPO and document any issue you have and steps required to fix them.
    I see also an issue here in regards of InfoPath version: you have InfoPath 2010 forms that should be supported in SPO, but this is something you also need to verify here.

    In summary, InfoPath forms are supported in SPO until 2026 (that's Microsoft Commitmment), in your migration scenario you could have issues with the forms because of their version (2010) and also because they are coming from OnPrem what means you might need to republish them in case the migration tool does not migrate them to SPO
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      keetaya80
      Brass Contributor
      Mar 04, 2019

      Thanks. Assume we have 1 to 5 scenarios (no source code scenarios) listed forms which apparently the tool (Metalogix or Sharegate) can take care of in migration.

       

      Can InfoPath content files (xml files)  in InfoPath libraries can be migrated like normal content ? or in O365, InfoPath content library and data cannot be migrated just the form only?

       

      Thanks

      Thanuja

      • prashanthsparks's avatar
        prashanthsparks
        Copper Contributor
        Apr 12, 2019

        keetaya80  Infopath forms (template) and list with data (xml's) will be migrated using Metalogix/ShareGate Tools, however post migration you would need 

        Enable Infopath & browser service

        Associate Infopath template to O365 List

        Validate bindings and controls , views, rules of Infopath forms

         

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