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With all the hustle and bustle of the workplace, it can be hard to find exactly what you’re looking for or know who to ask. Defining who is working on what and how they’re involved in the project isn’t always a simple task. Although SharePoint has made managing and sharing content easier, it still isn’t as seamless as its end users would hope. Being able to access content and applications all in one place is useful but doesn’t solve the problem of how to organize information that is only relevant to certain groups. The main goal of SharePoint is to facilitate collaboration, but when content is broadcasted to the entire organization, it can make end users unsure which information applies to them. Microsoft has acknowledged this issue with the creation of its new collaboration tools, SharePoint team sites and Microsoft Teams . These allow end users to create separate areas specifically designed for certain projects they’re working on and for the teams they’re working with. By organizi...

Planning for an enterprise SharePoint Migration can be challenging, painful, frustrating, and time consuming.  Define SharePoint Migration Goals The first step in SharePoint Migration planning, or in any technology migration, is to define the goals and objectives.  Simply put, this is defining: Why are we migrating? What must we have Day 1 on the new platform? What do we hope to get out of the new platform? What are the hopes/goals six months after launch?  A year?  3 years? These are small questions that can have some big answers.  Having defined goals and objectives before deep diving into planning activity will help inform your analysis and decisions.  Each stage of the planning process should be viewed through the lens of these goals and objectives.  If the “why” of the migration is part of a company-wide cloud initiative, then you know at the outset that the option to leave behind ...