Posts Tagged ‘Migration’

Last week, Perficient sponsored and presented at SharePoint Fest Chicago. One of our speakers was Rich Wood, National Director of Modern Applications here at Perficient. He presented on “Migrating Your Intranet to SharePoint Online.” First, Rich explained what’s different about the cloud, and gave details on SharePoint as a service, including what makes it different from SharePoint […]

I am currently at a client who is attempting to migrate Reporting Services objects from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2013.  There are two paths they can choose for the migration: Copy the files over or do a database-attach upgrade to 2010 then 2013.  Either path they choose they will still have to set the reports […]

On Thursday, we hosted a webinar around migrating to SharePoint 2013, which walked through the general guidelines and common pitfalls to avoid so that the transition will be successful. With the arrival of SharePoint 2013, many organizations are preparing to make the move to the new version, but may not be sure how to properly […]

Are you looking to learn the steps to a successful SharePoint 2013 migration? Ready to join the SharePoint 2013 revolution but not sure how to prepare and plan for it?  Or, in the middle of a migration that is falling behind schedule? With the arrival of SharePoint 2013, many organizations are preparing to make the […]

I recently came across an issue when one of my peers in the enterprise voice group helped integrate their existing on-premise Lync 2010 environment with hosted voicemail in the cloud. We followed the recommended steps outlined in these series of TechNet articles and other publications and everything seemed to work fine with a few test […]

Perficient recently worked with a state government to move its existing public website to SharePoint 2010. Upgrading to a newer technology would enable the state to save financially and make technical improvements while keeping pace with its evolving business demands. The migration would also provide for the standardization of state agency websites on a single […]

Some time ago I one of my projects involved migration from the Vignette Collaboration platform to SharePoint 2010. Vignette Collab was no longer going to be supported by the vendor and my client wanted to move to a new platform. They were already using SharePoint elsewhere, so SharePoint was chosen as the destination platform. The goal was to keep […]

 This blog post is meant for both the PowerShell newbie and scripter out there looking for a reason why they should start learning aptly named PowerShell or push themselves to learn a new aspect of PowerShell they’ve been meaning to try. It’s been a few years now since PowerShell first came to be. Remember those […]

I just finished a support call dealing with this situation, so I thought it was worthy of a quick post.  As my colleague, Jason Sloan, pointed out in his post “Lync Server 2010 to Lync Server 2013 Migration QoS Gotcha,” the Lync executable filename has changed from communicator.exe in Lync 2010 to lync.exe in Lync 2013.  Jason brought […]

During part two of this 2-part blog series, Microsoft MVP and PointBridge Professional Services Manager Dave Greve talks about the importance of communications and training within an organization migrating to Office 365. He suggests tips to minimize help desk tickets, maximize adoption early on, provide better ground support during go-live and getting users ready and […]

During part one this 2-part blog series, I talk about the importance of user experience during migration to Office 365. Microsoft offers many capabilities that ensure an optimal user experience such as Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), Directory Sync and Exchange hybrid services. Additionally, I point out options for organizations with external messaging systems to […]

Background I recently struggled with the inability to move mailboxes from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 while helping one of my customers. The environment consisted of a Single Exchange Organization residing in a Single Forest with Multiple Domains within the Forest. The Exchange 2003 Servers and the Exchange 2010 Servers resided in the same Forest, […]