I would like to get some different perspectives on this.
We currently use SharePoint 2013. This was installed about 3 years ago by a vendor. I think it may have been their first install because we have seen several things that were not set up correctly. We have had some weird issues, anomalies and things not working correctly from time to time. So my thought is rather than upgrade to 2016, we stand up a new farm on new servers for 2016. What are the pro’s and con’s? What does this involve? Are there any third party tools that we could use to transfer content from SharePoint 2013 to SharePoint 2016?
Hey Ernie – we’ve got a great migration comparison matrix on here that compares the 3rd party migration tools. I think all of the bigger vendors will support migrating from SharePoint 2013 to SharePoint 2016.
With regard to your problems – if they’re pretty bad I would definitely consider a new Farm and then do a content copy across. However, hopefully one of the vendors will see this to give you some much more informed advice.
