SharePoint Online Migration for a Construction Firm

19 MAR 2020

The Client

A mid-sized construction company in North America engages Star Knowledge for a SharePoint for Small Business to SharePoint Online migration.

The Need 

The client wanted to migrate their content from SharePoint Small business Server system to take advantage of several cloud-based features on Microsoft SharePoint Online such as Integrated Searching, Improved Worked flow, ease of Storage Management, Metadata management, Enhance Publishing abilities, Mobile compatibility etc. The client also needed a clear understanding of their existing SharePoint farm to learn about the farm’s content & migration requirements.

The Solution

Star Knowledge with its deep expertise in SharePoint migration services, performed a thorough Pre-assessment of the farm that included review of the existing configuration and migration needs. It also included the assessment of existing SharePoint environment and proposed hardware configuration of the new production environment.

The SharePoint consultants performed a detailed analysis of the Source Content, meta data and security. Upon Completion of the assessments, migration plan and strategy were laid out with conducting Pilot migration before migrating to production environment. With clear post-migration policies, we performed testing of the environment to ensure all the required data were migrated.

How we carried out the migration process:

• Pre-assessment
• Assessment of the existing SharePoint environment
• Detailed analysis of the content
• Migration plan & strategy
• Pilot migration
• Post-migration & testing

Benefits of the SharePoint Online Migration

• Easier Navigation and Distributed Administration
• Improved Search capability
• Support for larger Data
• Access from anywhere.
• Security

Technology:

• SharePoint 2010
• SharePoint Online
• Sharegate
• OneDrive Sync Client