There is a very strong possibility that I will be tasked with an awesome project; Migrating SharePoint 2010 Foundation to SharePoint 2013 (Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, who knows). Here’s a little of what the potential client will expects help with; high level write up sent by the client (a few points)
- Analyze existing site collection structure and make design recommendations to improve usability
- Make recommendations for design of architecture/server farm, estimated growth and
security for VMware. - Make recommendations for redundancy / backup to cloud
- Make recommendations for an Enterprise SQL Server DB that would store the SharePoint
content - Outline an approach for migrating to the new platform including recommended tools to assist in this process
There are other items as well but for now I only want to stick with migration. I know there are lots of questions I need to ask the client; What are they??? I would like some feedback from the community on their experiences and resources used to be successful on this venture. I have done migrations in the past wss to 2007 to 2010 internally but this is a different ball game as someone else outside of our company is looking for expertise.
Regarding SharePoint Migration we should ensure some things. We can ask some questions to our SharePoint Migration Consultants are as follows:-
- How stable your SharePoint(any version)?
- What is Min Role?
- Do architectural changes include or not?
- Whats migrated?
- How can we fix bugs?
