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Copper Contributor

Mar 23, 2018

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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 t...

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paulpascha
Mar 23, 2018
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:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SharePoint-2007/SharePoint-2007-to-Office-365-Migration-Success-Guide/td-p/40066

paulpascha

Bronze Contributor

Mar 23, 2018

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:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SharePoint-2007/SharePoint-2007-to-Office-365-Migration-Success-Guide/td-p/40066

jcgonzalezmartin

MVP

Mar 23, 2018

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

Thomas Gravelle
Copper Contributor
Mar 26, 2018
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.