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Microsoft SharePoint Server 2019 and SharePoint Hybrid Administration

By : Aaron Guilmette
Book Image

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2019 and SharePoint Hybrid Administration

By: Aaron Guilmette

Overview of this book

SharePoint Server is an on-premises collaboration and business productivity platform. It serves as a content management and web services platform, enabling users to create, publish, and discover content and applications and integrate with business systems. This SharePoint book offers complete, up-to-date coverage of the SharePoint Server 2019 interface to help you configure and deploy confidently from the start. With the help of clear and succinct explanations and expert tips, this book covers SharePoint Server and SharePoint Hybrid configuration as well as the process for migrating to Microsoft SharePoint Online. As the book takes you through strategies and techniques for configuring and managing SharePoint on-premises and hybrid scenarios, you’ll get to grips with the concepts essential for SharePoint deployments, such as authentication, Business Connectivity Services, and the data gateway. You’ll also explore migration methods and strategies. By the end of this book, you'll have learned the fundamentals of deploying SharePoint Server 2019 and be able to use this reference guide for your administration tasks.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)

Planning and configuring an automated SharePoint migration

Now that you've identified and resolved issues prior to migration, it's time to migrate data. In these examples, we're going to refer to the native tools provided by Microsoft—namely, SMAT and SPMT.

Use the following steps to complete a migration:

  1. On SharePoint Server with SPMT installed, launch the tool.
  2. Sign in, if prompted, to your SharePoint Online tenant.
  3. Click the Start your first migration button, as illustrated in the following screenshot:
  1. Select the data source. In this case, we'll choose File Share, as illustrated in the following screenshot:
  1. If selecting a SharePoint site, enter the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for a SharePoint site and click Next. If prompted, enter local site credentials and click Sign in. If selecting a file share, enter the Universal Naming Convention (UNC) path to the share and click Next, as illustrated in the following screenshot:
  1. Select a destination ...