Using SharePoint Migration Tools To Migrate From SharePoint On-Prem To SharePoint Online – Challenges To Expect And Plan For

While SharePoint online has numerous advantages due to its feature rich, tightly integrated offering by Microsoft, the benefits may not be fully realized if you try to migrate your existing SharePoint on-prem versions to the SharePoint Online as is. This is due to some limitations in how certain elements get migrated to SP online. Many […]

SharePoint Migration Planning: A practical approach to build your own checklist

Is SharePoint Migration just a small technical job or is it a process that entails the inputs of several different stake holders of an organization? Migration provides yet another opportunity to fully realize and further improve a company’s collaboration, productivity and content management processes. A thorough and detailed SharePoint migration planning not only improves the […]

How To Plan Your SharePoint 2019 Migration?

Having plans for migrating to SharePoint 2019? Have you decided about the method of migration to be used while making the move to SharePoint 2019? You should first get to understand factors that require consideration before moving to SharePoint 2019. We have discussed these below, which give you some idea on how to initiate your […]

Microsoft SharePoint Migration Tool vs Vyapin DocKit Migrator

Microsoft has recently released its latest version of SharePoint Migration tool available free of cost to their customers. You can use Microsoft’s SharePoint Migration tool to migrate content (folders and documents) to SharePoint Online along with basic metadata. However, the Microsoft SharePoint migration tool may fall short if you have a complex or metadata intensive […]

SharePoint Migration vs Upgrade: When it is Recommended?

An overwhelming phase of every organization is deciding the right path to adopt a new version of SharePoint, either it is on-premises or online. SharePoint admins will have a dilemma whether to migrate or upgrade SharePoint? Before making a decision, proper analysis of the current SharePoint environment and understanding the difference between migration and upgrade […]

How to move SharePoint servers to different domain (new AD) without losing the data integrity with limited time and effort?

Great to have an option to move a SharePoint Server to the different domain (or different farm) instead of recreating new farm / merging multiple Active Directories (AD) and migrating contents from old farm to new one is a common expectation of every user. As this expectation is more common in case of merging of […]

Migrating SharePoint 2013 / 2010 Designer Workflows to SharePoint 2016 / SharePoint Online (Office 365)

There is no direct and easy way to copy / move the SharePoint designer workflows from SharePoint 2013 (and below) to the latest version of SharePoint 2016 On-Premise and SharePoint Online manually using built-in mechanisms, as these types of workflows are deprecated in the latest version of SharePoint. There are two options to handle such […]

Why Migrate To SharePoint 2016?

Are you still running older versions of SharePoint? Confused or hesitating to take a decision whether to move to SharePoint 2016 or not!  Here we have provided you the reasons for moving to SharePoint 2016. Enhanced Features A new HTML5 rendering engine that targets modern web “full” standards mode and modern browsers. With new, modern […]

Web part issue and resolution when migrating from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2013

One of our customers recently encountered an issue when upgrading from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2013. I thought I will share this for the benefit of others in the SharePoint community who are planning to migrate from SharePoint 2007. Users in the customer’s organization encountered the error below when opening a custom webpart that used […]

DocKIT’s new Enterprise Keyword feature support

The Enterprise Keyword function when applied, contributes to better and relevant search results. It is a robust way to expand keywords, improve your corporate taxonomy and make the Items more search friendly to the end users. If the user can apply these keywords during migration, then it makes post migration search quicker. It helps the […]