Create a Modern Experience for your Business

User mapping is a key step in the site inventory creation and analysis process. This occurs between source and target sites. Users from classic sites are mapped to their corresponding accounts in modern sites to ensure that the created/modified details and the required content permissions of the items are retained. 

During the inventory process, important details related to out of the box and custom user and group  permissions are gathered from the classic sites based on what permissions are created for different roles in modern sites. 

Site collections, subsites, lists, libraries, and pages are created and the appropriate content and metadata is migrated from classic sites to modern sites. From a site hierarchy perspective, this is the time to ‘flatten’ site hierarchy where possible, and to make use of site hubs, though a classic hierarchy structure can be replicated in selected instances if it is deemed critical. 

Based on users and groups available in classic sites, corresponding groups are created in modern sites. Users are migrated under each group along with their privileges.  

• When a site collection is migrated, permissions are set up in the target followed by migrating people and groups. 

• Each subsite is migrated individually with its underlying people and groups along with lists & libraries.

An important part of the migration inventory and assessment process is identifying those sites that are no longer actively utilized and that therefore should not be migrated.  Depending on access and compliance needs, a determination can then be made to either archive sites or to decommission / delete them in their entirety.