A SharePoint migration tutorial on moving to the Microsoft cloud

SharePoint migration to Microsoft 365: Why migrate to SharePoint Online?

Employees today want tools that make them more productive and engaged, whether they’re on premise or in the cloud. The integrated productivity apps in Microsoft 365 (such as sites, lists, planner) enable your organization to benefit from new methods of collaboration—empowering employees to be creative and work together, securely. Ensure your distributed workforce remains productive by making sure the content migration runs smoothly.

Create a SharePoint migration plan

Whether you’re moving to a newer version of SharePoint Server or getting ready to migrate to SharePoint Online in Microsoft 365, planning—including taking an inventory/index and assessment of your data—is a crucial part of an effective migration strategy. It’s possible to have complete customization of your migration to suit your document management needs, but understanding your end-users needs, team collaboration, and document management, is the key to a successful roadmap while using SharePoint as your new collaboration platform.

Step 1: Modernize existing SharePoint content

To take advantage of powerful new collaboration features in Microsoft 365, your site architecture needs to go from top-down to flat. A SharePoint migration is an opportunity to restructure and reorganize your content—so take advantage of this chance! Using SharePoint sites, Lists and other content types for collaboration ensures your end-user can collaborate easily – even from a distance.

Step 2: Deploy Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is a powerful addition to Microsoft’s cloud-based productivity suite. But there’s more to deployment than enabling the app and stepping back. Follow these tips, tricks, and best practices to ensure a successful Teams deployment, adoption and management.

Step 3: Manage and secure SharePoint on an ongoing basis

After completing your migration, run regular reports to keep an eye on what’s happening in your environment, access management, and make sure users are complying with your governance policies. The key to keeping on top of everything is automating and customizing SharePoint and Teams for your organization.

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