I have SharePoint 2007 website with 2 TB database. I need to migrate this in SP 2013 without using any tool.
Please share your experience.
Hi Ashutosh
This is one of the toughest job if you are dealing with SharePoint. To my understand, SharePoint 2010 is the only path to SharePoint 2013. But even before that there other challenges what you need to overcome when you are planning to move in to SharePoint 2013.
The topmost challenge would be evaluation of your 2007 customization. You must go through the all the customization and then check whether the customization or third party tools or add-ins, or web parts are going to work in the new environment. Then decide what needs to be re-customized or deprecated.
Second challenge is user training as user would be experiencing a complete new user interface in comparison to the old interface. Despite of the fact the user interface is much better that the old one the user training is going to be challenge.
Then comes the strategy which I call Hop-in strategy as you need to move 2010 and then one everything works fine their move everything to 2013.
Please let me know if you need any additional information on the same.
-Vikram
