Contents
- 1 What is SharePoint migration assessment tool?
- 2 How do I run a Smat report?
- 3 How do I plan a SharePoint migration?
- 4 Is there a SMAT tool for SharePoint farm?
- 5 Do you need Farm Service account to run SharePoint Migration Assessment Tool?
- 6 Which is the default mode for SharePoint Migration Assessment?
The tool is a simple command line executable that scans the contents of a SharePoint farm to help identify the impact of migrating to SharePoint Online with Office 365. The SMAT tool is available in two modes: Assessment and Identity Mapping.
How do I run a Smat report?
Run smat.exe from the extracted files location. To see all the available parameters, run: smat.exe /help . SMAT.exe is a launcher program that determines your intentions based on the parameters passed in, and then loads the appropriate application to do the requested work.
How to Create a SharePoint Migration Project Plan
- Identify your business challenges.
- Consider your future strategy.
- Put together a migration team.
- Create a communication strategy.
- Assess your existing data environment.
- Restructure your existing information architecture.
- Prepare your destination environments.
What is SharePoint migration?
SharePoint Migration is a process of moving all your content and existing solutions that are residing in your existing SharePoint or file share to a new or an existing environment with generally, a newer version.
What is the SharePoint Migration Assessment Tool ( SMAT )?
The SharePoint Migration assessment tool (SMAT) is a simple command line executable that scans the contents of your SharePoint farm to help identify the impact of migrating your server to SharePoint Online with Office 365. As the tool is designed to run without impacting your environment, you may observe…
SMAT tool allows you to scan your SharePoint 2013 or 2016 farm, to provide you enough information if your farm is ready for a migration to Office 365 and to assess the potential issues that your farm could have. Below is the link to download. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointmigration/overview-of-the-sharepoint-migration-assessment-tool
This tool is built to run from SharePoint 2010 or 2013 environment. To run this tool, all files must be extracted from any compressed package before execution. This tool must run as Farm Service Account. A farm administrator account is acceptable as long as the account has been given read access to all web applications.
This is the default mode. If you run SMAT.exe, assessment will run. The assessment process runs scans against the SharePoint farm and associated content looking for issues that have been known to cause issues for customers migrating into SharePoint Online.