1. Welcome to SharePoint Saturday Denver!
6th of Rocktober

2. Migrating to SharePoint Online? What you need to do NOW to prepare!
Adam Burden

3. Adam Burden Adam Burden www.linkedin.com/in/adamburden
@JABurden
Sr. Collaboration Architect and Trainer at JourneyTEAM
SharePoint Junkie since 2004
MCT since 1996
Hobbies are Cycling, Mountain Biking, Hiking

4. Case Study - Scenario Company Split 7,500 Users 2 TB Data
753 Site Collections
4 Months
On-Prem to SPO

5. Case Study - Background
SharePoint 2013 On-Prem in Chicago
O365 Tenant – Based in Central Europe
New domain/users to be used
Customized Branding Solution
Limited Amount of Time = Little to No User Training
Approximately 1/3 of the Company Was Moving, Only ~5% of IT Staff
General User Base Opposed to Change

6. 5 er…. 6 Steps for Migration in 4 Easy Steps
Communication
Scan
Triage
Upload
Verify

7. Communications

8. Scan ShareGate SharePoint Migration Assessment Tool (SMAT) SkySync
SharePoint Migration Assessment Tool (SMAT)
SkySync
Metalogix
AvePoint

9. ShareGate Explorer Session

10. ShareGate Reporting Page

11. ShareGate Migrator Page

12. SMAT Summary Page

13. Triage Determine The Data to Move Item Level Permissions Versions
Custom Solutions
Long File Names
Illegal Characters
Enabled Lists
Large Lists
Workflows
Alerts

15. Upload
Use a 3rd Party Tool – ShareGate, Metalogix, AvePoint, SkySync

16. Upload – How Long Will It Take?
Several Factors:
Source Computer – Spread Data
Network – Get as close to the data as possible
Migration Computer – Use Multiple
Internet Speed
Metadata Impacts Performance
Type of metadata
Examples
Average customer experience
Light
ISO files, video files
2 TB/day
Medium
List items, Office files (~1.5MB)
1 TB/day
Heavy
List items with custom columns, small files (~50kb)
250 GB /day

17. Verify
Work with users to verify that the content was migrated successfully
Ensure that permissions are intact
May have to perform a delta migration
Assist in User testing

18. Lessons Learned
Item Level Permissions SLOWS The Process: 2.5GB Site = 18 Hours
Previous Versions – Determine Appropriate Number
OneNote – Mind the Timestamp
O365 Throttling – Use Separate Migration Accounts
Script to Automate Moving Data
Know Your 3rd Party Tool

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For your support and that of your awesome people!

22. Join us for following the event
Pint Brothers
Denver Marriott Tech Center
4900 S. Syracuse Street
Denver, CO 80237

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