1. Tamir Orbach, Director of Product Management - Metalogix
Microsoft’s new Migration API, and what it means for SharePoint Online Migrations
Tamir Orbach, Director of Product Management - Metalogix

2. Agenda Preparing for SPO Migrations (regardless of speed)
What’s the New Application Programming Interface (API) About?
Migration over Internet/WAN
Office 365 Protection Mechanisms
Migration Tools using Old API
Migration Tools using New API
Migration Speeds with old API
Migration Speeds with new API
Migration Vendors using the new API
Vendor Neutral Demonstration
Unknowns and Cautions
Q&A
Confidential and Metalogix

3. Preparing for Migrations (regardless of speed)
Evaluate your company strategy and understand whether you need to make changes to your SharePoint farm as you migrate.
Understand your Content – do you have stale content that no one is using any more? Why migrate that to SPO? Do you have content that is not supported in SPO?
Understand your SharePoint Inventory – do you have site templates, list templates, custom web parts, full trust code solutions, sub site numbers, list view thresholds, or other settings that are not supported in SPO? Those will not migrate, and you’ll have to remediate.
Determine if you’d like to leverage new and exciting functionality in SPO such as Community Sites, Video, etc.
Ensure your resulting search results are better than they were before – improve your Information Architecture

4. Migrating over Internet/WAN
On-Premises SharePoint
SharePoint Online/
OneDrive For Business (OD4B) Final Destination
File Share,
SharePoint On-Prem,
Potentially any other Data Source.
Long distance between on-premises and Office 365

5. Office 365 Protection Mechanisms
On-Premises SharePoint
SharePoint Online/
OD4B Final Destination
File Share,
SharePoint On-Prem,
Potentially any other Data Source.
User and Farm based Throttling
Virus Scanning
Load Balancing of Web Server Connections
Distributed Denial of Service Monitoring

6. Migration Tools using Old API
On-Premises SharePoint
SharePoint Online/
OD4B Final Destination
File Share,
SharePoint On-Prem,
Potentially any other Data Source.
Copy Site Collection/Site/List
Read List details from source
Write List to target
Copy/Paste Item
Copy Item
Paste Item
Copy Item Permissions
Paste Item Permissions
Copy Item Metadata
Paste Item Metadata
Etc,.
Every single item is separately pushed to SPO

7. Migration Tools using New API
On-Premises SharePoint
File Share,
SharePoint On-Prem,
Potentially any other Data Source.
SharePoint/ODB
Final Destination
Pull from Azure
Azure Blob
Storage
Items packaged, pushed-> in batches
Copy Site Collection /Site/List
Read List details from source
Write List to target
Package
Create Package of 100+ items
Create XML file containing items, permissions and metadata
Upload to Azure Temporary Storage
Tell SPO to pull package from Azure
Timer Job Based imports content in a scalable way that will not hurt the service using back end resources.

8. Content Matrix migrations using new API
On-Premises SharePoint
File Share,
SharePoint On-Prem,
Potentially any other Data Source.
SQL Server Backup/Restore
Backup Content DBs on-premises
Copy Content DBs to Azure VM
Restore Content DBs to SQL Server in Azure VM
Azure Temporary
Storage
Migrate from SQL Server in Azure VMs
Migrates 99% of content from Content DBs located
in Azure Virtual Machines
Azure Virtual Machines are physically next door neighbors to
SharePoint Online
Geographical distance is no longer an issue!
The Power of Automation
PowerShell allows consulting companies to automate the migration of thousands of Site Collections, Sites, Lists instead of migrating 1 at a time
Combining PowerShell with massive multi-threading creates a multiplier effect
Timer Job Based import in a scalable way that will not hurt the service using back end resources.

9. Migration Speeds with old API
Speeds do not factor in multiple VMs in parallel
Speeds do NOT include remediation
Significant variations can occur depending on time of day, how busy SPO is, etc.
Confidential and Metalogix

10. Migration Speeds with new API
Speeds DO factor in multiple VMs in parallel
Speeds do NOT include remediation
Significant variations can occur depending on time of day, how busy SPO is, etc.
These speeds will not be achieved 24 hours a day
Numerous exceptions to this including Managed Metadata & infopath forms
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11. Migration Vendors using the new API
Metalogix
MetaVis
ShareGate
AvePoint

12. Vendor Neutral Demonstration

13. Unknowns and Cautions
One service pulling content from an SPO tenant – how does impact performance?
What happens if 10 other tenants are migrating at the same time?
What about remediation?
How many Azure Blob Storage Accounts should I use?
What will not migrate using the new API?
What’s the optimal batch size?

14. Q&A