Microsoft 365 Business: The SharePoint Migration Tool The SharePoint Migration Tool is a handy application taking the guesswork out of moving files to Office 365 from either your hard drive, third-party SaaS storage provider, or on-premises SharePoint environment. Apr 30, 2018 The SharePoint Migration Assessment Tool (SMAT) is a simple command line executable that will scan the contents of your SharePoint farm to help identify the impact of migrating your server to SharePoint Online with Office 365. Microsoft’s free SharePoint Migration Tool is good for simple file migrations from file shares. It also performs well when migrating from a vanilla document library that doesn’t contain any document sets, lookups or custom metadata. For more complex migrations, however, the SPMT falls short. The SharePoint Migration Tool was launched during Microsoft Ignite 2017 in this blog on the Microsoft Tech Community - Introducing the SharePoint Migration Tool from Microsoft. ' At Microsoft Ignite we announced a new free, simple, and fast migration solution to help you migrate content from on-premises SharePoint sites and file shares to. Hi Trying to migrate some big libraries from 2016 Server to Online, but have error: 'The SharePoint version is not supported' How i can migrate from 2016 to Online? Thanks a lot for answer! Hey Oleg - On this article under 'Where is your data currently located,' this tool only supports SP 2013 on-prem. I'd imagine at some point Microsoft will support. Jun 29, 2004 Smigrate.exe is a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services utility that can be used to back up and restore a Web site on a server running Windows SharePoint Services. This utility is used when migrating a SharePoint Team Services deployment to Windows SharePoint Services.
Designed to be used for migrations ranging from the smallest set of files to a large scale enterprise migration, the SharePoint Migration Tool will let you bring your information to the cloud and take advantage of the latest collaboration, intelligence, and security solutions with Office 365.
The SharePoint Migration Tool (SPMT) lets you migrate content to SharePoint Online and OneDrive from the following locations:
SharePoint Server 2013
SharePoint Server 2010
Network and local file shares
Download and install
Download and install the SharePoint Migration Tool using one of the download links below. After downloading and installing the SharePoint Migration Tool, read How to use the SharePoint Migration Tool to help you get started.
If you experience issues with your installation, see Troubleshooting installation issues.
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Download and install: SharePoint Migration Tool
Supported features
For a complete description of features see: What does SPMT support?
If you prefer using PowerShell, all SPMT functionality is supported. For more information see: Migrate to SharePoint Online using PowerShell.
Planning and assessment
Planning is the key to a successful data migration. The SharePoint Migration Assessment Tool (SMAT) is a simple command line executable that will scan the contents of your SharePoint Server 2013 farm to help identify any issues with data you plan to migrate to SharePoint Online. The results report points you to articles to help you fix any issues that were discovered. The tool runs in the background without impacting your production environment.
To download the tool: SharePoint Migration Assessment Tool (SMAT)
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Microsoft Sharepoint Migration Tool Review
The SharePoint Migration Tool is not available for users of Office 365 operated by 21Vianet in China. It is also not available for users of Office 365 with the German cloud using the data trustee, German Telekom. However, it is supported for users in Germany whose data location is not in the German datacenter.