Technology continues to evolve and organizations need to evolve along with it, which means putting in place processes and strategies to move off their current system into a new system. Sharegate is an easy to use and cost effective tool that helps migrate critical business data from one platform to another, as part of a business’s transition phase and decommissioning process.

Cutting costs in IT systems and staying up to date in a supported state are key driving forces to decisions made around migrations to new platforms in organizations. There are businesses that typically work off network file shares and are wanting to transition off those file shares into a modern collaborative platform such as SharePoint.

There are also those businesses that already have SharePoint in place but would like to move to either Office 365, or upgrade to the latest SharePoint version. Migrations are tricky and need to be properly planned and strategized with either an in-house IT department or through the consultation with vendors that have industry experts in SharePoint, such as Oakwood. To help move content to the latest version of SharePoint or Office 365 from either an existing SharePoint environment or file shares, organizations would require a migration tool such as Sharegate to help easily migrate the content across.

With the out-of-the-box upgrade or migration paths in SharePoint, they require more effort and time to implement as the process is a lot more complicated compared to using a robust migration tool such as Sharegate. If you’re upgrading from an old version of SharePoint such as 2003 to the latest version of SharePoint using the out-of-the-box upgrade path, it’s not a one hop upgrade path, however if Sharegate is used as the migration tool, it is able to upgrade directly to the latest version in one hop. Both time and money is saved using Sharegate, as opposed to opting for the out-of-the-box SharePoint upgrade path approach.

Sharegate Supports:

SharePoint 2003	SharePoint 2007	SharePoint 2010	SharePoint 2013
SharePoint 2016	SharePoint Online	Office 365	OneDrive 4 Business
File Shares	Google Drive	Nintex	Box

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How To Migrate To SharePoint

(1) Plan

Planning is a crucial part of every migration project. It consists of building an inventory of your current environments in order to estimate the time and effort required to complete a successful move. The goal of the planning stage is to ensure a smooth transition for your end users.

Depending on what you’re planning to do, migrating to SharePoint can be a difficult task. More often than not, the actual migration is the easy part. What causes headaches is trying to make sure you’ve thought of everything prior to migrating.

(2) Migrate

No two migrations are the same: every business has unique structure, permissions, workflows, configurations, and metadata. Whether you’re moving to Microsoft SharePoint On-Premises or SharePoint Online in Office 365, there are complexities that most out of the box tools won’t cover.

Sharegate helps you migrate your entire enterprise environment, or granularly move files, lists, libraries, sites, site collections, workflows and more. This way, you can personalize your migration experience according to your specific business needs, no matter the complexity, and without impacting your users.

(3) Manage

Once you’ve successfully migrated your content, you’ll need to keep your new SharePoint environment healthy and secure by monitoring and managing it on a daily basis.

Use the Sharegate software for document management, to reorganize content and structure, to manage user permissions and to keep track of user activity. Whether you’re moving to the latest version of SharePoint or to Office 365, management is a crucial part of your migration’s success.

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Features for Migrating Your Content

Site Collections	Content	Security	Customizations
Site Collections	Documents	Users	Out of The Box Workflows
Content Types	List Items	Groups	SharePoint Designer Workflows
Site Collection Settings	Document Sets	Permissions	Nintex Workflows & Forms
Sites	Pages	Permission Levels	Customized Forms & Views
Site Navigation	Metadata	Custom Permissions	InfoPath Forms
Quick Launch	Self Lookup	Document Security	User Alerts
Subsites	Web Parts	Users in The User Information List	Activate Required Features
List Settings	Record Libraries	User Alerts
Lists & Libraries	Special Calendar Occurrences
Site Columns	Version History
	Views
	Folders

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