Lessons for successful sharepoint migrations

There is an immense demand growing for Microsoft Sharepoint 2013 and 2010, as people carve for more centralized Knowledge repository and collaborative Workspace. It saves time and effort when you transfer the content to sharepoint by using DocAve’s seamlessly. The Sharepoint migration projects are mainly used when there is a business disruption and end-user confusion. Some of the great benefits that Sharepoint team would bring in are that it automates the process of consolidating multiple content sources, besides this, it increases the monthly revenue and easily migrate content from the individual sharepoint to multiple end users. However, there are some useful lessons for successful sharepoint migrations:

Lesson 1: Share point is an Enterprise system not like a pet Project

Even if you have got free offers of MOSS 2010 licenses, just because you have bought Microsoft Office suite licenses, or Microsoft SQL, you must not be treating it as a free of costs. Sharepoint 2010 is enterprise software. Sharepoint is originally installed with an SQL express, and supports 2-gigabyte size limit for database. Thus users often faced problem of space while adding contents to their websites. Sharepoint 2010 is now installed with new box running SQL server standard edition.

Lesson 2: Managing your website

It is very necessary for you to manage your content repository and in Sharepoint 2007 repository. You must ensure to check, and clean all the garbage, meanwhile transferring the actual content to the new sharepoint repository. It is always suggestive to explore the useful content in your bank. If your content is weird shape, then it will lead to improper migration.

Lesson 3: Use Virtualization

Earlier, the configuration at MFG.com was the only machine to work on Sharepoint 2007 architecture. So, with MOSS 2010, you can move ahead with virtualization. Virtualization helps you to keep in touch with resources, and memory. The best part of using virtualization is that it is devoted to larger memory in the presentation tier ( where more caching occurs) and least allocated to the database tier. The other benefit of using virtualization is taking extra out of sharepoint.

Lesson 4: try something new

There is always a risk for trying something new. When MOSS 2010 was release, SQL server 2008 R2 also made the entry at the same time. In such cases, you have to take a slight risk to take the advantages of performance when you are working on VMWare.

Lesson 5: promote Call support

Any good company makes sure to provide call support. For instance, Microsoft has its own call support facility, likewise you can also call Share point engineers, and get help in complete the configuration using SQL server 2008 R2 and 64-bit Windows server 2008.

Conclusion

Migration often does not go the direction, you have planned, but a smart tweaking will help you reap great benefits.