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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...

2016

SharePoint Online

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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

Thomas Gravelle

Copper Contributor

Mar 26, 2018

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.