SharePoint Online Migration Experience.

Challenges

Given the large workforce and multiple business units, coordinating with various site owners and stakeholders was a challenge in itself. The business units needed to verify the requirements and decide what they wanted to migrate and what not, given that the on-premises environment had a lot of old data that was not needed. In addition to communicating with various stakeholders, compliance with the client’s policy was a major business requirement.

Disabled custom script, leading to list form corrupted.

During the migration process, the team encountered a challenge when custom scripts were disabled in SharePoint Online, which resulted in the list form being corrupted

Permissions Denied: Team Unable to Access Sites and Deploy App

During the migration process, the migration team encountered a permissions problem. Some team members were unable to access specific sites because they did not have the necessary permissions. Additionally, the team did not have the permissions to upload apps to the site app catalog. This prevented the team from deploying apps such as Google Analytics and custom CSS inject

The Solution

The project manager played an important role in planning and executing the overall migration plan. The team created a clear roadmap with sites and sites owners on what would be migrated, based on the business needs and priorities of various business units. The development team worked with the project manager to migrate the sites, ensuring almost zero business disruption. To overcome certain compliancerelated challenges, the development team deployed innovative solutions such as

Created custom layouts.

Using JSON formatting, the team was able to make their SharePoint pages more attractive and engaging. This helped to improve the user experience and made SharePoint sites more effective tools for communication and collaboration.

Disabled custom script, leading to list form corrupted.

During the migration process, the team overcame the challenge of corrupted list forms by manually creating a schema to fix corrupted list forms, then using a migration tool to migrate the content.

Permissions Denied: Team Unable to Access Sites and Deploy App

During the migration process, the team overcame the challenge of corrupted list forms by manually creating a schema to fix corrupted list forms, then using a migration tool to migrate the content.

The Result

The SharePoint Online migration provided tangible benefits to the organization, including enhanced collaboration and communication, streamlined data management, effective resolution of migration challenges, and the establishment of a more secure and productive digital work environment.
Introduction

A global manufacturing giant with a large workforce moved its SharePoint on-premises environment to SharePoint Online to take advantage of the scalability, security, and compliance features offered by the cloud-based platform.

Location

United States