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Migration Sharepoint on premisses to online
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Hello everyone,
I know there are many migration tools, to migrate a sharepoint environment, such as sharegate, avepoint, metalogix, etc.
I need to migrate my intranet to sharepoint online.
But I would like to know if there is any other way to migrate from on premise to online using other means than these tools.
As I would say "do the migration in the arm".
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Dear,
The migration tool depends mainly on the content your are looking to migrate and the source infrastructure you are looking to migrate.
- What SharePoint version/Edition
- What feature did you use on that farm ?
- What usage did you do on that sites ?
- What kind of content / data did you store into ?
- What volume you are looking to migrate ?
- What site size ?
- What document size ?
- How many items/documents per list/doclib ?
- What permission organization did you implemented ?
- What is the level of subsites globally ?
- ...
Based on that response, you can evaluate correctly the solution to use.
In our case, we migrated 2800 Site collections distributed in 17 SharePoint farms configured only with WSS 3 (2007).
Because our structure were clearly known and managed, we used Sharegate and migrated all those sites into SPO (using the STS#1 template sites).
Last point, the permission set complex are less and less the good way into O365 due to the move from SharePoint Teamsites to GroupSites.
Fab
I would also recommend to take a look at this article for various options available for Migration to SPO
- It really depends on what you need to migrate...if you need to migrate the source structure and contents, you need a third party tool as you well mention...as an alterntive, you could build your custom migration tool
Hi Juan. Thanks for the answer. I really need to migrate the entire structure, from libraries to site collection. I want to abandon the on premise definitely, leaving everything online
As mentioned, you could build it all yourself, But that isn't worth the effort. Look into a migration tool (I prefer ShareGate), but find one that suits your needs and that your company can afford/are willing to pay for.
