- Always make it necessary for the user to have Site Collection Admin (Farm administrator is not necessary) accessed in both the source and target locations; otherwise there shall be disconnection which will result in loading error.
- Ask user not to restart the VMs if some working activities are going on.
- Check all the features and activate them before migration whichever are not activated in the target url. This is because errors due to features that are non-activated points are not mentioned in the Pre-Check report also. Hence, it’s better to do it before.
- Run a Pre-Check report in order to check the errors and warnings in bulk and check the solutions for it from ShareGate to resolve them in advance before migration.
- Map the unresolved users and groups to SPFarmAdmin id in order to avoid errors or warnings related to user not found in the destination site.
- Use Copy Site Objects to migrate all the content from Site Collection to sub sites level top to bottom including Lists/Libraries, Users, Content Types, Groups, Workflows etc.
- Focus more on errors and automatically warnings also get resolved just like in this case.
- After INSANE you can reduce few more errors by doing an Incremental NORMAL mode migration.
- Normal mode and Insane Mode
When migrating from On-Premise Servers, the On-Premises Server works a bit differently but uses the same migration API. The Insane Mode will rely a bit more on the server extension and will do less "calls" to the server and send bigger packages to the destination. In can speed up the migration by quite a lot, but it will use more of your network resources so you need to be aware of that. - Can't migrate the Web apps during migration, the highest level that we migrate is the Site collection. Here are some important details about migration feasability
- Features
Sharegate, if you are migrating your entire Site Collection, Share Gate reactivates all required features for the migration and those activated on your source environment. If you are migrating just a site, we will make sure that we activate all required features, but some of them are not possible to activate through the migration process and those will be listed explicitly in the Migration Report. Take note that no third-party features will be migrated at all. - Lists
As long as the lists have been created by SharePoint and no third-party tool, Lists will be migrated to destination with all the column configurations and data, no matter it's size. - Site Collections
We can migrate your Site Collection by connecting directly to Farm/Tenant Admin level and load your web application. This will list your Site Collections and you can copy it all to destination since you are connected at the same level at destination. - Sites
Migrating an entire site will bring forth all the metadata from it with all the lists/libraries and datadata from them, no worries! - Workflows
Sharegate will migrate your workflows, but if they are Sharepoint Designer workflows, we will not migrate workflows that are in progress. We will leave the state aside of the migration process and the workflows will need to be restarted at destination. In the case of workflows, as long as the workflows have been created either with Sharepoint Designer or out of the box workflows directly, we'll be able to take care of those without a problem. If the workflows have been created with Nintex and you have a Nintex license for Sharegate, then those will carry over also. Lists of any size can always be migrated using Share Gate.
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Gaurav MasramPosted Jul 20, 2018, 8:55 AM
Do you mean trail made or trial mode in the title of the blog?