Hi Team,
We have full-blown Connections 5.0 installed on RHEL servers (DB2, CCM, Files, Communities, Docs, Forums, etc., distributed along several servers).
It's SSO integrated with an also Full blown Domino environment, running in an RHEL server on-prem. environment.
Our Connections have several Terabytes of data, among Files, Communities, Files on Communities, Blogs, etc.
We are considering migrating from Connections 5.x to SharePoint.
Which would be the recommended or suggested steps and feasibility options to follow in order to perform such migration, keeping our data and current integrations?
Kindly share the migration software names as well.
Thank you in advance.
- Elango Gopal
Hi,
in short: The best option would be just not to do it. Those platforms are quite different. MS itself doesn't offer much tools, especially not for such feature-wide systems like CNX. They only support simple platforms like win file servers, dropbox and so on.
Our management want a single vendor strategy with Microsoft. Cloud of course, as everyone is doing with MS 365. Costs are multiple times higher than with Domino on prem, lacking some features, for some Domino is still running. Not to mention the high effort for the migration and the risks of the Cloud. Most of them have already started to become true: General price increases of the subscriptions, another hidden increase with Teams premium, a lot of outtakes just in the last months - to name only a few recent examples.
CNX is currently still running and it will for at least a while. The rest of the MS cloud apps takes much ressources, so that the CNX migration didn't even started. We talked to multiple consultant companies and trainers, showed them our environment. The largest is of a similar size (5 TB data), but on a newer CNX version. All of them, even those with 10+ years of MS said, when they're honest, they wouldn't migrate it to MS. It will cost a lot of ressources and at the end, we would get less, than we have now.
So if this is not a political decision, which forces you to move at any costs, consider keeping your CNX env. And better invest the ressources in upgrading those environment to a more revent version (CNX 8), since there are serveral improvements. It also has a more silimiar design to MS and includes the MS Teams integrations, if your company want to use those service. This is not only my advices - it also comes from multiple experienced trainers, earning their money with microsofts cloud services.