To Cloud or not to Cloud? This is the big question for the different companies today. If your company is also thinking about going to the cloud, join this session to get Knuts 5 steps that you need to complete before moving to the cloud. You will get help to make the decision if your company should all the way to the cloud, or just partly to the cloud with hybrid. Join this session to learn what the cloud can offer your company and how you can migrate to the cloud with success.

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5 Steps to
Take Before
Migrating to
SharePoint
Online

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Knut Relbe-Moe
My Experience:
SharePoint evangelist, mentor, speaker
Advisor, passionate about using best practices
Have worked with SharePoint since the 2003 version.
Worked with several clients upgrading their solution from 2007/2010 to
2013.
Works as a Lead Architect and advisor creating SharePoint Farm
architecture/infrastructure on many projects. With up to 25.000 users.
Worked with automating the installation and configuration of SharePoint.
ChiefTechnicalArchitect
KnowledgeFactory,Oslo,Norway
Office365 MVP
MigrationExpert
Educatorfor Glasspaper
NintexVirtual TechnicalEvangelist
Knut.Relbe-
moe@knowledgefa
ctory.com
http://sharepointblog.no@shareptkarm +47 982 24 609
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Move to the Cloud, or not – that is the
Question!

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But hey, move to the cloud is easy,
so lets focus on how to move to
the cloud with success

7. Don’t forget

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What does that mean?

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To migrate with success you need
to involve the Business… That is
the number one success-criteria.

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Step 1: Involve the business

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Wo did we forget?

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The users!

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What are the characteristics?

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How to solve this
Involve the end users:
 Testing
 Training
 Providing guidance and business
process input
 Get some super users

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The more you involve people in the process,
the more likely they are to accept the results

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Step 2: Involve the end users

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WHAT TO MOVE
• Decide what you should move to the cloud,
all or nothing, or just some parts…

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So your company is not ready for
all cloud…. What shall I do?

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WE HAVE THE
SOLUTION!
THIS IS NOT A PROBLEM

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Move some parts

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Or move some of it with a:

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Step 3: Decide which parts to
move to the cloud

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Analyze the data

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What are the characteristics of
migration projects?

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How to solve this

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 Get-SPWebApplication https://portal.contoso.com | Get-SPSite -Limit All |
Get-SPWeb -Limit All | Select Title, URL, ID, ParentWebID, WebTemplate |
Export-CSV C:sharepointinventory.csv -NoTypeInformation
Create an inventory over what to migrate.
What to migrate

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Migrate the data
1
2
Write your own Code
Choose a 3trd party tool

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Step 4: Don’t migrate as is, use this
opportunity to recreate your
SharePoint environment and
choose the right tool to migrate the
data

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Enhance the new platform

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Step 5: Make sure to use the new
functionalites, no reason to
upgrade/migrate to new version,
just because it’s new…

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Before any migration project

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Take a step back and look at the bigger
picture

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Lessons Learned
• A pre-migration analysis is a must at the
beginning of the project
• Build your project plan based on what you
find
• Perform a content and customization
inventory

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Key Takeaways
 Start with easy workloads
 Understand environment, custom solutions, site types, and what people are actually
using
 Recreate the site structure if necessary
 Minimize the volume you have to migrate
 Determine your governance strategy
 Define acceptable and target user experience prior to migrations starting
 Think through permissions model – security groups won’t include calculated domain
groups
 Scale migration process through best practices

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http://mwssummit.com/you-are-invited/

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Now you are ready to migrate your legacy systems