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Jenkins Nesamony Sundararaj's avatar
Jenkins Nesamony Sundararaj
Brass Contributor
Mar 08, 2018

Looking or guidance to Migrate from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2016

Hi All,

 

I am planning to start a migration plan and implementation. We have a small SharePoint 2010 farm (3 servers - Application server, DB server, Web front end server). Planning to migrate to SharePoint 2016.

 

Could you please share me some reference documents or blogs to understand the impacts to migrate wsp, master pages, themes, timer jobs, and monitoring applications.

 

Regards

Jenkins NS

2010
2016
sharepoint server

6 Replies

  • Asish Padhy's avatar
    Asish Padhy
    Brass Contributor
    Mar 14, 2018

    Another great tool for custom analysis - https://rencore.com/products/spcaf. Just from my experience, not all of your WSPs or solutions will be compatible with SP 2016, so do a real good review of customization and monitoring jobs.

     

    If you are an excel guy, get an upgrade worksheet https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/download/details.aspx?id=30370 and add/modify contents as per your need.

     

    An architecture level feedback, if possible please redesign your new architecture from scratch (not saying there would be a problem with current one) but SP 2016 has much more advantages with respect to feature upgrades and services management which could be taken advantage of.

  • paulpascha's avatar
    paulpascha
    Bronze Contributor
    Mar 08, 2018

    In my experience making use of third-party products to make a good inventory and ultimately perform content migration works best. Several vendors exist providing products that can be of great use in such projects. ShareGate and Metalogix are big players here and provide great guidance, videos and blogs on their websites. 

     

    https://en.share-gate.com

     

    https://www.metalogix.com

     

    If there's room (budget / time), it's always good to reconsider your customizations and modify them to comply with the lates guidance. For some customizations it will be technically required to re-create them, for others it might be a good choice to modify them for example to make future upgrades or a potential move to O365 easier.

     

    Hope this helps!

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