Tips and tricks as well as some methods used to migrate SharePoint sites and content from older SharePoint Versions into SharePoint 2013 and Office 365 Sites.

1. Marrell Sanders – Sr. SharePoint Administrator
SharePoint Saturday Dallas / Ft.Worth | March 7th, 2015
REAL WORLD : MIGRATING SITE
COLLECTIONS TO SHAREPOINT 2013

2. Marrell Sanders, MCTS
• SharePoint Administrator – IT Pro
• Applications Instructor
• Senior Web Consultant (MS Group IT)
Contact
• Email: techrevmarrell@outlook.com
• Blog: www.techrevmarrell.com
• Twitter: twitter.com/TechRevMarrell
WHO AM I

3. • Migrating SharePoint site
collections.
• Migration content into
SharePoint 2013, Office 365
• Planning and Pitfalls
• Tools and Resource to get it
done.
• Real World examples
WHAT IS THIS SESSION ABOUT?

4. • Who’s the real MVP?
• My friends, uncles, co-
workers, nephew said…
• Upgrade SharePoint =
Database Upgrades
• Site Migration =
Site level move
• Content Migration =
Libraries, Lists, or Importing
from other locations.
UPGRADE SHAREPOINT VS SITE
MIGRATION VS CONTENT MIGRATION

5. “Failing to plan is still a plan. It
just usually costs more time
and money.” (tweetable)
Tweetable
Syllabification: tweet·able
Pronunciation: /ˈtwēdəb(ə)l/
Definition of tweetable in English:
adjective
Suitable for posting on the social media
site Twitter:
• How will you get from Point
A to Point B?
• Reality is it’s usually from
Point A to Point Z?
WHAT’S YOUR PLAN?

6. WHAT’S YOUR PLAN?
Get the right people together in
order to ask the right questions!

7. WHAT’S YOUR PLAN?
• Get Checklist(s)
• Get Inventory
• Get Permission
• Get Schedule

8. If you have customizations in
your 2007 sites, prepare to
push back that vacation you
had planned. (Or your
admins)
• SharePoint 2007 Sites?
• DB Attach to SP2010
• stsadm.exe -o preupgradecheck
HOW DO I DO THE MOVE?

9. • SharePoint 2007 Sites?
• DB Attach to SP2010
• Analyze the report and Fix the following settings:
• Identify any third party components used and deploy them to SharePoint 2010
and SharePoint 2013 site. E.g. Nintex, 3rd party features, including web parts,
solutions and custom workflows
• Setup Incoming/Outgoing email settings in SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint
2013environment
• Modified Web.Config entries
• Configure Alternate Access Mappings (AAM)
• Find the missing webpart, event receivers or features if any and delete them
HOW DO I DO THE MOVE?

10. • SharePoint 2007 Sites?
• DB Attach to SP2010
• Analyze the report and Fix the following settings:
• Backup the databases from the Old SQL instance
• Restored the databases in the new SQL instance
• Modified Web.Config entries
• Configure Alternate Access Mappings (AAM)
• Find the missing webpart, event receivers or features if any and delete them
HOW DO I DO THE MOVE?

11. (note: This is not an official
ranking of Top to Bottom
vendors.)
Third Party tools such as:
• Sharegate
• Ave Point
• Metalogix
• Metavis
• Dell
• Varonis
• Etc…
HOW DO I DO THE MOVE?

12. • Explorer View
• Lose Previous Meta Data
• Visual Comparison tool
• Shortcut Key Scheduling
• Fire and Forget Technology
• 3rd Party Tool
• Preserves Meta Data in content
• Modified By, Modified Date,
Library Column data
• Reporting
• Scheduling
• Versioning
• Has some intelligence
HOW DO I DO THE MOVE W/CONTENT
ONLY?

13. • Why would I ever want to do
this?
• Moving file shares of data
into Departmental libraries
with specific meta tagging.
• Take advantage of newer
technologies o365,
SharePoint 2013 newsfeed.
• Yammer!!!
REAL WORLD APPLICATIONS
2.600 site collections in SharePoint 2007 -> SharePoint 2010, 2013.

14. • Time investment
• Resource investment
• Coordination efforts
• Hardware Specifications
• Complexities
• Customizations
• Versioning
PITFALLS AND LIMITATIONS

15. Additional Resources:
http://www.TechRevMarrell.com
#SPSDFW blog post for downloads
http://www.winwire.com/moss-2007-to-sharepoint-2013-
migration-using-database-attach-method/
QUESTIONS