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Migrating SharePoint on-prem to SharePoint cloud
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:
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.
