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SharePoint Migration Planning

Nine modules on running a SharePoint migration that lands without user complaints and without permission surprises. Discovery patterns that catch what auto-scanners miss. Permission mapping across tenants. Throttling reality vs the marketing collateral. Restructuring during migration. Cutover strategy for hybrid and cloud-to-cloud. And the post-migration verification programme that proves the move actually worked.

Founder cohort — first fifty enrolments get 40% off launch pricing

Founder pricing

CA$239 at launch

40% off standard CA$399 · locked in for founder cohort

  • 9 modules · 11 hours of content
  • Practitioner guide (PDF)
  • Discovery + permission mapping runbooks
  • Cutover checklist templates
  • Certification exam + LinkedIn credential
  • Lifetime access + free updates
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Why this course exists

Most SharePoint migrations succeed technically and fail operationally.

The tool moves the files. The tool does not tell you that the sponsor site owner doesn't work here anymore, that the permission group you're mapping to doesn't exist in the destination, that Microsoft Graph is going to throttle you at 5% of the throughput the vendor marketing collateral quoted, or that the "identical folder structure" you promised the client is now a decision they need to revisit because half the folders shouldn't exist.

This course teaches the discovery, planning, and verification work around the migration — the parts the vendor collateral skips. Built on real cross-tenant SharePoint migrations across pharma, education, municipal, and professional services clients. Every pattern has been shipped. Every anti-pattern has been paid for.

Curriculum

Nine modules. The migration playbook the tool vendor didn't ship.

Each module includes video walkthrough, written reference, runbook templates, and a knowledge-check quiz. Hands-on labs use MigrationFox's own migration engine for cloud-to-cloud scenarios.

Module 01

Discovery Patterns

Beyond the tool's auto-scan. Interviews with content owners. The four discovery lenses (structure, sensitivity, usage, ownership). Building the site-by-site decision register that drives every downstream choice.

Module 02

Permission Mapping Across Tenants

Group mapping from source tenant to destination tenant. Handling users who don't exist in the destination. Guest access preservation. Group nesting flattening. The three permission-mapping strategies and when each applies.

Module 03

Throttling Reality

Microsoft Graph throttling limits. SharePoint Migration API vs Graph API vs CSOM throughput. Wave planning to avoid throttling. The Microsoft "unlimited" narrative vs the observed 429 rates on production tenants.

Module 04

Restructuring During Migration

When "same structure at destination" is wrong. Folder consolidation. Splitting oversized sites. Renaming standards. Metadata migration and enrichment. The four questions to ask before you agree to preserve legacy structure.

Module 05

Cutover Strategy — Hybrid

On-premises SharePoint to SharePoint Online. AD to Entra ID identity mapping. Delta synchronisation windows. User communication cadence. Bookmark update workflow. The four cutover models for hybrid and their tradeoffs.

Module 06

Cutover Strategy — Cloud-to-Cloud

Cross-tenant SharePoint migration. Multi-geo considerations. Guest access preservation across tenants. Domain rename impact. The three cutover models for cloud-to-cloud and when each applies.

Module 07

Post-Migration Verification

The verification programme that proves migration success. File count reconciliation. Permission spot-check sampling. Version history preservation. Metadata verification. The four-week post-migration hyper-care runbook.

Module 08

Migration Failure Recovery

Common migration failure modes: throttling, permission drift, corrupted files, orphaned users, incomplete metadata. Detection patterns. Recovery playbooks. The three "the migration failed silently" scenarios you need to catch before the client does.

Module 09

Programme Management & Client Communication

Migration as a running programme, not a one-shot project. Steering cadence. Wave planning and re-planning. Status reporting. Managing user expectations. The three communication moments that determine whether the migration is remembered as a success or a disaster.

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