Planning a migration strategy for SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business
Organizations who wish to migrate content to SharePoint Online can do so through a number of different mechanisms – whether it’s by simply copying and pasting content between windows or through an orchestrated migration strategy.
After an organization has decided what’s in scope to migrate, it can begin strategizing the best way to complete the tasks.
A migration effort, whether it’s for SharePoint or OneDrive for Business, follows a similar design pattern:
- Inventorying data sources
- Selecting the migration tools
- Planning the network requirements
- Preparing the environment
- Migrating data
We’ll look at each of these areas in brief.
Inventorying data sources
The inventory process helps you determine what data is in scope to migrate. You’ll need to gather data from a lot of different sources – whether it’s software...