I have SharePoint 2010 farm and from this, I want to move some sites and site collections to SharePoint 2016 web application. In sp 2016 farm there is web application created with sp 2016 content database.
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This move is called migration of sites. There are two ways to achieve this migration.
- Use the 3rd party tool which will directly migrate Sites/sitecollections from 2010 farm to SharePoint 2016. i.e. Sharegate, metalogix etc
- In 2nd method, you have to build a SharePoint 2013 farm in between SharePoint 2010 & sharePoint 2016. It is called database upgrade method.
- create SharePoint 2013 farm.
- Take the backup of SharePoint 2010 Databaste (which has all sites)
- restore it in SharePoint 2013, fully upgrade to Sharepoint 2013 level
- Now take the backup of database from SharePoint 2013 farm and Restore it SharePoint 2016
- Upgrade the restore DB to SP 2016.
- Now test the site collections
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Hi in sp 2016 there is already web application I want to move site collection and sub sites under this web application ,for this can I use export site? Dec 18, 2018 at 16:06
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yes if the sites are already in SharePoint 2016 but not directly from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2016– Waqas Sarwar MVP ♦Dec 18, 2018 at 16:14
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those sites coll, subsites I am moving those do not exist in the sp2016 web application, and i don't want to create separate content db . Dec 19, 2018 at 5:05
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Problem is you cannot do direct migration. Once you have database in the SharePoint 2016...you can move the site collections in the existing DB using Move-spsite command, also export & import the sites in desired site collection– Waqas Sarwar MVP ♦Dec 19, 2018 at 15:08
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