Sharepoint Migration Tool Vs Mover

Moving from SharePoint on-premises to online is more than just lifting and shifting your articles. For most companies, it represents an chance to improve practices for collaboration, sharing, and records management.

The main element to an effective SharePoint migration is consistency. Throughout this process, your team needs to trust that they can find the information they want. You can perform this by implementing a SharePoint global navigation before your move. Although you’re not thinking about moving to SharePoint Online, getting a SharePoint navigation system helps your team find what they want fast. It could even increase adoption of SharePoint and other tools internally.

In this blog post, we’ll review three ways you can use Navo to simplify your SharePoint navigation for a smooth migration process.

Global Navigation in SharePoint

Global navigation in SharePoint identifies a menu that spans across your site collections. Your options for global navigation in SharePoint Online are limited, and relatively non-existent in SharePoint on-premises. This gap is normally filled with custom code maintained by developers on staff or through expensive third-party systems.

Managed metadata term sets give you the ability to create navigation that becomes contextual to each user. However, it generally does not focus on group-connected SharePoint sites. In addition, it requires manually applying the navigation to every site.

Hub sites provide a drop-down menu option that is managed from one place, but it’s not actually global navigation. A niche site must be associated with the hub to receive the menu, and each site can only just be associated to 1 hub. There is no global hub site.

Custom code is obviously an option for SharePoint Online and on-premises. However, it needs a developer to build, support, and keep maintaining code on an ongoing basis and is bound in functionality (and frequently in user experience and design).

Global Navigation with Navo

That’s why we created Navo. Navo allows administrators to quickly build a company megamenu and display it on any SharePoint site in your tenancy. It’s managed from one easy place with a drag-and-drop editor and design functions to help match your internal branding. The very best part? Navo can be put into your on-premises environment as well as your SharePoint Online classic and modern sites. Customers will experience regular navigation when you migrate, change, and update sites behind the scenes.

You can find three key uses for our on-premises version of Navo:

- Your organization is using SharePoint on-premises without plans to go online and is searching for a global navigation tool for your on-premises collections.
- Your organization is using SharePoint on-premises and is not likely to migrate the websites online. However, any new sites will be created in SharePoint Online. You’d like a global navigation system that can bridge your site collections together.
- Your company is actively migrating to SharePoint Online and requires a global navigation to limit the need to communicate changes as workloads get shifted.

We’re Using SharePoint On-Premises And We’re Not Leaving

Hey, that’s OK! We’re not here to convince you to leave your on-premises environment. However, we realize that the options for global navigation on-premises are slim-to-none. Navo for SharePoint on-premises gives you to build your global navigation online using our drag-and-drop editor. Once you’ve created your navigation, export our custom code to add to your SharePoint environment and viola! Seamless, global navigation for all of your team.

We’re Using SharePoint On-Premises And We’re Adding Online

We love that you’re thinking about adding new sites and content to SharePoint Online! And we love that Navo provides a bridge between your on-premises and online site collections. Your team will experience a steady navigation without worrying about whether they’re by using an on-premises or online site collection. Create your menu using our drag-and-drop editor and quickly deploy to all of your classic and modern sites in SharePoint Online using our tenant wide mode.

For your on-premises menu, you’ll export a file (in JSON format) to upload into the SharePoint on-premises environment. Your team will never spot the difference when navigating between on-premises and online!

We’re Migrating to SharePoint Online

Yay! SharePoint Online has tonnes of great features (including security trimming) which make it worth the move. Migrations offer a great possibility to modernize your systems, update procedures, and ensure you’re complying with security and resource management best practices. But migrations can be tricky for reasons beyond their technical nature. Your team may be left feeling lost, unsure of how to locate the tools and information they want. Determining which sites should be accessed on-premises or online can be confusing and frustrating. Adding global navigation to your migration plan can help ease a lot of your migration stress!

Use Navo to bridge your SharePoint on-premises and online site collections so that your team has a regular experience when moving in the middle of your tools. You’ll build your menu system online and export our custom code into the on-premises SharePoint environment. As sites are moved to the cloud, you’ll update the links in Navo. Doing this your team sees the same menu label and icon, but they are directed to the shiny new SharePoint Online site. Once your entire on-premises sites have been replaced, you can retire that tenancy without worrying about team members who might be trying to access old sites. SharePoint

ESTABLISHING Navo On-Premises

Setting up Navo on-premises is simple! You’ll use our drag-and-drop editor to create your navigation menu in only a handful of steps. When you’re finished, automatically apply your menu to all or any of your classic and modern sites online using our tenant-wide mode or pick and choose the sites you want to deploy to.

Next, you’ll export our custom script into the on-premises tenancy to implement your new global navigation menu without coding required! Users can move between SharePoint on-premises and online without saving bookmarks, copying links, or opening multiple tabs.

The benefits of global navigation are endless, whether your planning for a migration or not! Your team will receive a fast, reliable way to access the various tools and information they need, saving time and frustrations. Give your team a constant navigation across all your SharePoint site collections with Navo!