Posts Tagged ‘Migration’

When migrating to SharePoint 2013 older assets may need serious modification to gain from the benefits of the new, lightweight, fast, and fluid user interface. These benefits come from new CSS styles, themes, and master pages. Thus, you must re-create your custom branding by using the new styles, themes, or master pages available in SharePoint […]

Yesterday, we hosted a webinar on Power BI for Office 365: Using SharePoint Online to Deliver Self-Service Business Intelligence. During the well attended session, Andy Tegethoff, Microsoft BI architect at Perficient, first reviewed what Power BI is all about, who is likely to be a user, and the components of it. He then dug deeper […]

If you want to move from a customer/partner portal to Communities, you might find yourself faced with a dilemma: Should you swap your old portal licenses to Communities licenses, or not? Don’t be alarmed, of course, your existing portals aren’t going away, but you may want to move to take advantage of some of the […]

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 […]