Best Practices for Migrating to SharePoint 2010

Helping with a faster, less stressful migration

Published July 2013

That SharePoint farm of yours has been around for a number of years now. How has it been running? Great! Now that you have it stable and everything is sorted out, it’s time to migrate to the next version of SharePoint – and that can be a daunting prospect. Understanding the best practices for a SharePoint migration will help ensure success.

This paper details several of those best practices, including establishing good governance, developing an effective communication plan, and evaluating migration approaches.

While this paper focuses on migrations to SharePoint 2010, the methodology can be applied to migrations to future versions of SharePoint as well.