There are about 200 million active users who have purchased either a SharePoint on-premises license or subscribed to Microsoft 365 plans in which SharePoint Online is present. Many businesses have been using SharePoint since it was launched in 2001. The on-premises SharePoint data can amass a great size as there can be many site collections, libraries, and documents. So, SharePoint on-premises can be affected by the size limitation of the hardware. But SharePoint Online does not have such limitations. So, many organizations like to move their data to the cloud. SharePoint Online has a storage size of multiple terabytes that can be expanded further. Your primary task is to select a SharePoint Migration Tool that supports an on-premises SharePoint to SharePoint Online migration and provides features that can handle such a complex procedure.
Thankfully, we checked some of the prominent tools, and in this article, we will discuss their pros and cons. You can compare their features and select the tool suitable for you.
As freeware, Microsoft’s SharePoint Migration tool has all the basic user features and functions to migrate SharePoint data. It supports the following versions as the source platforms –
The tool will migrate the primary data and their permissions, versions, features, web parts, metadata, taxonomy, navigation, icons, and descriptions.
It is a well-known professional migrator tool from KernelApps. It supports all the versions of SharePoint and migrates them directly to SharePoint Online. All SharePoint items like sites, lists, metadata, public folder, workflow, form, and Teams are supported for migration. Also, there are many options in each step of the migration.
Pros The specialized suite from the computer giant migrates data to and fro between SharePoint platforms. It can move all the content to SharePoint Online or another on-premises deployment. Through bulk migration, it can migrate individual sites, site collections, lists, libraries, web parts, and other information. It also facilitates a selective migration of the necessary data.
ShareGate SharePoint migration tool is a subscription-based service that migrates the SharePoint content smartly. It supports all the versions of SharePoint from the latest 2019 to the oldest 2003. This tool helps you check a pre-migration analysis report showing possible outcomes for each object; it allows clearing the gaps, editing metadata, correcting links, and organizing destination SharePoint.
It is another SharePoint migration platform that does not require installation on the system. It lets you create an account and buy a subscription to migrate the SharePoint content. There are customizable settings that you can use to manage the migration according to your requirement.
Adopting the cloud version of SharePoint can be an overwhelming task for a business manager as the SharePoint on-premises data can be enormous in size due to extensive usage over multiple years. You require proper planning and a professional tool to migrate the site collections, list & libraries, and other web parts.
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