Any client looking to plan for a SharePoint Data Migration is often accompanied by questions such as
·
How fast can the content be migrated?
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Would it be safe?
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Would the migration downtime bring me a loss?
·
What if it fails?
While these are important questions that must be addressed
before choosing your SharePoint
Data Migration tool, a better approach might be to just explore how
efficient the migration process be planned and executed. Let us delve into some
factors that will define how efficient your migration process can be and the
parameters to determine its success.
SharePoint Data Migration Efficiency Indicators
While the migration quantity might be quite important, choosing
the correct migration time and speed plays a major role in SharePoint migration success
determination. These data can be of great help to plan and optimize the
whole migration process in the most effective way possible.
While we at
Saketa have run many test migrations to ensure the perfect results to our
clients and have been improving each Version of our SharePoint Migration
Tool to fit in every kind of emerging scenarios, applied
uniformity cannot be established in every migration project. In such a
condition, we cannot prototype the migration performance across different
environments. This leads to a Success determination strategy based on important
migration parameters instead:
Migration Speed
Be it
any kind of migration, from our years of migration experience, we know several
common factors that affect the data migration project speed:
- Basic Content to be migrated.
- Content Attributes such as
metadata, permissions, etc.
- Hardware requirements
- Throttling Restrictions
- Migration tool architecture
Migration Process Efficiency
Migration
process efficiency and job uptime have a significant impact on the migration
duration. Every organization wants to make sure that migration is running at
full capacity with high accuracy. Migration job failure rate too must be
minimized as much as possible. Here are the major factors that need to be taken
care of during a Microsoft 365 migration.
SharePoint Architecture and Capacity
Every
process needs appropriate infrastructural support to be productive. Your chosen
migration tool must have the right infrastructural features to maximize your
migration success. It should allow a great user experience accompanied by the
least throttling effect.
This
will ensure minimum error rate, minimized downtime, and eventually, greater
productivity.
Reduction in Downtime Loss
Once
your migration architecture is satisfactory, you can proceed towards mitigating
the downtime loss. Incremental migration or migration scheduling can work wonders to
save precious business time and plan migration downtime when the traffic is
low.
This
will enable the technical team to focus on set up and troubleshooting whenever
they feel it to be convenient.
Failure Rate
Migration
Errors might be considered a major setback if not handled properly. Higher
failure rates and timeouts lead to the need to re-run jobs. This can be a major
money-burning experience. While some errors might be unavoidable, but a proper
premigration and postmigration check can be of great help.
Therefore,
it’s important to ensure a good error reduction and risk mitigation
plan in place. An efficient Failure reporting mechanism too
must be in place.
Bottomline
Finally,
what we expect from our migration project is to run smoothly. Focusing on the
efficiency rather than the mere parameters like time taken can be a great start
to improve your migration experience. Just wisely schedule your downtime,
avoiding throttling, and managing the errors.
These
were our tips for a great migration experience. What are yours? Feel free to
share in the comments below!
Saketa SharePoint Migrator
Saketa Migrator makes your SharePoint Migration and Office 365
migration effortless.
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