Given the large workforce and multiple business units, coordinating with various site
owners and stakeholders was a challenge in itself. The business units needed to
verify the requirements and decide what they wanted to migrate and what not, given
that the on-premises environment had a lot of old data that was not needed. In
addition to communicating with various stakeholders, compliance with the client’s
policy was a major business requirement.
During the migration process, the team encountered a challenge when custom
scripts were disabled in SharePoint Online, which resulted in the list form being
corrupted
During the migration process, the migration team encountered a permissions
problem. Some team members were unable to access specific sites because they
did not have the necessary permissions. Additionally, the team did not have the
permissions to upload apps to the site app catalog. This prevented the team from
deploying apps such as Google Analytics and custom CSS inject
The project manager played an important role in planning and executing the overall
migration plan. The team created a clear roadmap with sites and sites owners on
what would be migrated, based on the business needs and priorities of various
business units. The development team worked with the project manager to migrate
the sites, ensuring almost zero business disruption. To overcome certain compliancerelated challenges, the development team deployed innovative solutions such as
Using JSON formatting, the team was able to make their SharePoint pages more
attractive and engaging. This helped to improve the user experience and made
SharePoint sites more effective tools for communication and collaboration.
During the migration process, the team overcame the challenge of corrupted list
forms by manually creating a schema to fix corrupted list forms, then using a
migration tool to migrate the content.
During the migration process, the team overcame the challenge of corrupted list
forms by manually creating a schema to fix corrupted list forms, then using a
migration tool to migrate the content.
The SharePoint Online migration provided tangible benefits to the organization,
including enhanced collaboration and communication, streamlined data
management, effective resolution of migration challenges, and the establishment of a
more secure and productive digital work environment.