FAILED

10REASONS your

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sharepoint migration

SharePoint 2013 has arrived So You took off with

SharePoint 2013

But ignored

KEY CONCEPTS

Now you feel

OVERLOADED

Now you feel

OVERLOADEDLike it might all come

CRASHING

DOWN

SO WHY DID YOUR

SHAREPOINT MIGRATION

FAIL?

YOU DON’T KNOW

SharePoint

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Yes, you.

Yes, you.

But it’s ok, that’smostly everyone

SharePointis easy to use.

A few clicks,and you get:

Sites, Lists, Libraries, Pages...

And now youFeel like thecoolest person in town

But SharePoint requires

timeknowledgepatienceand experience

It’s built on

SQLIISDNS

AD

Windows Server.NET

Javascript

and so much more...

It’s built on

SQLIISDNS

AD

Windows Server.NET

Javascript

and so much more...

That’s a lot of moving parts to consider when migrating

then ASSEMBLE an EPIC team of them

and if you’re not an expert in all of these fields....

YOU THOUGHTTRAINING

WAS OPTIONAL

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OC

KIN

G!

SH

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KIN

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Training is often left at the end of the project or even ignored

BUT WHY?

Some see it as too big an

expen$e

Some see it as too big an

expen$ecost of training

cost of lost productivity+

TRAINING HELPS!

TRAINING HELPS!

employee satisfaction

TRAINING HELPS!

employee satisfaction

tackle more tasks

TRAINING HELPS!

employee satisfaction

tackle more tasks

motivation to useSharePoint

TRAINING HELPS!

employee satisfaction

tackle more tasks

motivation to useSharePoint

increased adoption

TRAINING HELPS!

employee satisfaction

tackle more tasks

motivation to useSharePoint

increased adoption

and much more...

SO DON’T IGNORE

TRAINING IN YOUR

PLANNING

Let the users play with SharePoint

and ensure your SharePoint migration’s

success

LACK OFCOMMUNICATION

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By bringing change

By bringing change

you are already the bad guy

trying to change their routine.

Without announcements

or propercommunication

it’s going toHIT HARD

increasing yourchances

for a badSharePoint Migration

experience

Take the time to show o!!

New FeaturesDates & MilestonesOrganize launch eventsHow it’ll facilitate tasksReasons for the change

COMMUNICATEand see yourself become the hero

coming to the rescue

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YOU THOUGHTDATABASE-ATTACH

WOULD DO EVERYTHING

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There can be only 1...upgrade scenario

according to Microsoft,only Database-Attachis supported

this is only from SP2010

and you thought this would work like magic

bringing along all the old junk.that’s everything that was in the

Databases

did you forget you had custom coded solutions?

Though it might work for some...

Take the time to pick and choose what to migrate

to SharePoint 2013

Enough has changed inSharePoint 2013

That you’ll want to

build a new architecture

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IGNORED BUILDING A NEWARCHITECTURE

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2013

SP2013

arrived with cool new

features

Social

SearchWCM

WebPartsDesign Manager

SkyDrive Pro

Doing aDatabase-Attach

upgrade

and bringing the same old architecture over is like...

getting aCOOL

new o"ce

And furnishing itwith old computers

things like theContent Search WebPart

will completely redefinehow you see

a SharePoint Architecture

What used to be a brick wallyou couldn’t workaround

(boundaries between sites, site collections, etc.)

Can now easily be done using

SEARCH

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YOU DIDN’T INVENTORY YOUR SITES AND TEST

THEM FOR UPGRADE

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Many factors will influencewhether your site

will still work after migration

If you don’t know what you have in your environment

Then you won’t know what could potentially cause a problem after

an upgrade

Take the time to inventory your sites

and know what you have

To run the available

health checksand tests

before upgrading

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NO PLANNINGNO GOVERNANCENO INFORMATION

ARCHITECTURE

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Governance

Should not strike fearwhen said out loud

Should not be a burdento carry during the

project

A Governance plan helps establish rules.With so many users and sites, it helps maintain

everything together.

but keep it simple.

or it will turn into a documentNO ONEwill read

InformationArchitecture

is the logical way of

organizing your

SharePoint architecture

it will help you define things like

Metadata Columns SitesNavigation Hierarchy

Content on Pages

and everything else that will be used in your SharePoint

Make sure you have a planSharePoint Migration is no easy

task

set goals and milestones to measure the success of your

migration

This can be simpleLook at what you want to

Remove

Migrate

Rebuild

And this will be even easier to do if you did an inventory of your sites before

8

NO MEASURABLE GOALS

WERE SET

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Without a clear set of goals

You won’t know if the migration is a success or if

it’s finished. You’ll keep going on and on

Define clear goals

Objectives that make it a successful

migration for you

47%

39%

14%

RemoveMigrateRebuild

Measuring can be as simple as knowing how many sites have to be:

RemovedMigrated or Rebuilt

or using SharePoint Analytics to see if users are using the new features

9BRANDING

SEEMED IRRELEVANT TO

YOU

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DID THESE IMAGESEVOKE AN EMOTION?

WHICH INTRANET WOULD YOU HAVE

RATHER USED?

But it has all the same functionality,

why not?

Branding helps increase user adoption and if done correctly, might even help with User

Experience and “Findability”

10

IGNORING THIRD PARTY

TOOLS

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Tools cost money

But so does your

time

THESE TOOLS MIGHT END UP SAVING YOU

TIME AND MONEY

SOME OF THEM ARE EVEN PRETTY COST

EFFECTIVE and EASY TO USE

bniaulinUSEFUL LINKS

Supported Migration Scenarios

Introduction to SharePoint 2013

What might not work after you upgrade

Tools and Techniques to create a simple Governance Plan

Planning a SharePoint Migration

What’s new with SharePoint Analytics

Using the Content Search Web Part to Roll Up Sites

NO MOREFAILED

SHAREPOINT MIGRATIONS

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