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Migrating SharePoint on-prem to SharePoint cloud
I have been tasked with developing a migration plan for our SharePoint 2007 applications. *Full disclosure- I've never done this before*. My question is, what is the minimum version I have to be at to migrate to SharePoint 2016 online? I'm getting mixed info. Some saying I can make the jump from 2010 and others saying I need to be at 2013. While 3rd party sites tout going from 2007 on-prem to 2016 online with their product. Just looking for some accurate info from folks way more experienced than I. Thanks in advance.
Historically a direct upgrade path was only supported from the previous version of the product to the next, but this is only applicable to upgrades between on-premises versions...
When migrating from SharePoint On-premises to SharePoint Online (SharePoint cloud), 3rd party products in general provide the beste experience. ShareGate, Metalogix and AvePoint are big players providing 3rd party migration tools. You should check their websites but there are lots of blogs out there comparing the products.
Microsoft also provides a Migration Tool, I have no experience using it and I actually don't know if SharePoint 2007 is supported
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/introducing-the-sharepoint-migration-tool-9c38f5df-300b-4adc-8fac-648d0215b5f7
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Apologies for stating the obvious but it is well worth while deleting and archiving what you can before migration. Backup everything to a safe location for your existing SP2007 environment.
You don’t state where your org is on it’s overall Office 365 journey but resources such as FastTrack can be beneficial. Make sure your AD structure is clean and work with your Global Admin (if that’s not you) to plan everything out.
Consider a test tenant so you can evaluate features and take advantage of working with new features before they enter production. Good luck Thomas!
We migrated our intranet from 2007 to Online using a combination of PowerShell and ShareGate. You'll need to be aware though that embedded links within documents or on links to images, webparts etc... will need to be remade if they reference your old site URL. We were able to utilise re-write rules to overcome this temporarily during the transition. Also this method didn't allow us to fully utilise the newer features and webparts. We decided to classify it as an upgrade of platform rather than redesign the intranet however we are now embarking on a redesign which will probably mean we'll migrate to a new site but that should be easier move from Online to Online.
- Trevor,
Thank you for the hints. I will have to note these and verify where we're at and what ours consists of. Thanks.
Historically a direct upgrade path was only supported from the previous version of the product to the next, but this is only applicable to upgrades between on-premises versions...
When migrating from SharePoint On-premises to SharePoint Online (SharePoint cloud), 3rd party products in general provide the beste experience. ShareGate, Metalogix and AvePoint are big players providing 3rd party migration tools. You should check their websites but there are lots of blogs out there comparing the products.
Microsoft also provides a Migration Tool, I have no experience using it and I actually don't know if SharePoint 2007 is supported
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/introducing-the-sharepoint-migration-tool-9c38f5df-300b-4adc-8fac-648d0215b5f7
This article might also be of interest to you:
- Paul, the 2nd link you provided is incorrect or the page has been removed.
There's a space character included at the end of the URL. Remove it and it works, I've edited my post to reflect this change...
Paul,
Thank you so much for your response. I have been looking into Metalogix as a possibility, but I'm still digging through our SP to verify it's content and makeup. Just so I'm not blindsided by a customization that kills a settled on plan of attack. The MS migration tool currently (or what I've found so far) only handles 2013 to 2016. I believe they are working on a 2010 to 2016 though.
- SharePoint Migration Tool only supports SharePoint 2013 as source...we can expect to have SharePoint 2010 support in the future, but I doubt Microsoft will add support to SharePoint 2007. Being said that, Paul has provided the key information towards achieving your goal: basically you will need to review migration tools and see if they support SharePoint 2007 as source for a migration....and remember: migrate to SharePoint Online means to migrate contents and structure, not any kind of custom component you have in your farm
- Thank you for the response Juan. I have to find out if yet if I'm even allowed to download any 3rd party apps to assist in this task, but I did see early on that the MS migration tool wouldn't work for 2007. I just wasn't sure if I was going to have to do a 1 or 2 step jump before getting us to the cloud. Thank you again.
