- Are you planning to move your SharePoint implementation to Cloud a.k.a O365?
- Do you believe you can relax for next few years after moving to cloud?
- You are using classic site you want to modernize your classic site?
If you answered any of the questions yes, this post is for you.
Vesa Juvonen, a principal program Manager at Microsoft during SharePoint developers talk, has suggested that “Modern is the future” for SharePoint. As the first step for an organization utilizing the older version of SharePoint technologies is to analyze, before replacing them. To help you in the process and make it more effective; use – SharePoint Modernization Scanner. It is the recommended approach and tool from Microsoft.
Caveat
The SharePoint Modernization Scanner works with SharePoint Online implementations, at present. The on-premise supporting version is expected soon.
This tool and all other PnP components are open-source tools and backed by an active community providing support for them, hence there is no SLA from official Microsoft support channels.
SharePoint Modernization Scanner, is an open source tool. It works using a user interface or the command line. The generated files (output) are in comma-separated value format.
Supported features
- Optimizing the usage of modern list and libraries
- Connecting these sites to an Office 365 group
- Modernizing the wiki and web part pages by creating modern site pages
- Rebuilding classic publishing portals as modern publishing portals
- Understanding where classic workflow is used
- Understanding where InfoPath is being used
- Understanding the usage of classic blog pages
As suggested in Microsoft article
The scanner will help in coming up with efforts for the features shared above. For more information about the tool refer to this Microsoft article.
It includes the images, .exe’s and other details related to the tool.
Dhawal Seth @dhawallseth 