Field Notes
Notes from building Liscaragh Software's products and delivering Microsoft 365 migration projects. Practical guidance, technical observations and the occasional war story from real migrations.
Migrating a file server without hiring a consultant
What a consultant actually does during a file-server migration, the three decisions that genuinely need a person, and a practical plan for doing the rest yourselves.
Read →What really survives a migration into Microsoft 365
Content, folder structure and dates arrive intact. Permissions and version history need a deliberate decision instead of an automatic one, and that is by design, not a shortfall.
Read →Turning your folder structure into searchable SharePoint metadata
Provenance, folder-level extraction, filename pattern extraction, category by type and retention flags, how a migration can also be a tidy-up, and why every part of it is opt-in.
Read →A letter grade before you move a single file
What Check readiness actually measures before a migration starts: the A to D grade, what earns each letter, and the gigabytes of duplicate files most migrations carry without anyone noticing.
Read →Running a large migration without anyone in the office noticing
A migration of any real size takes hours, sometimes days, and the office is usually still open while it runs. Overnight scheduling, bandwidth caps and a Sync that only ever adds up are what make that safe to leave unattended.
Read →OneDrive or SharePoint? Decide Before You Migrate
Every migration into Microsoft 365 involves a decision that is easy to overlook: does this content belong in a person's OneDrive, or in a shared SharePoint site? Get it wrong and you are correcting it later.
Read →The file and folder names SharePoint won't accept
A file that is perfectly valid on a Windows share can be flatly rejected by SharePoint. The invalid characters, reserved names and 400 character path limit that quietly break migrations.
Read →Your internet speed is not your migration speed
You can be on a gigabit line and still watch a migration crawl. The limit is rarely your connection, it is the API at each end, and no amount of bandwidth changes that.
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