Still using Classic SharePoint Sites?

 

Still using Classic SharePoint Sites?

Oh! No worries, we got your back. There is one tool “SharePoint Modernization Scanner”. Now you must be wondering what it is? How it works? What all data you need to execute this tool?

Hold on! Hold on! We will walk through all your questions one by one. Let’s Dive…

Scanner is a key tool to use if you want to prepare for modernizing your classic sites as it will give you factual data about how easy it is to modernize your site. Using the data generated on the dashboard by the scanner you will be able to drill down on the modernization readiness of your sites and plan the require work to be done where it is needed. Using this Scanner, you can prepare you classic sites for modernization. You can use to drive the planning, remediation, and migration. You will be prepared for the following modernization efforts.         

  • The compatibility of the lists and libraries for modern user interface.
  • Connecting these sites to a Microsoft 365 group.  
  • Modernizing the wiki and web part pages by creating modern site pages
  • Rebuilding classic publishing portals as modern on publishing portals
  • Understanding where classic workflow is used
  • Understanding where InfoPath is being used
  • Understanding the usage of classic blog pages

Step 1 - Latest version of Scanner.

We are in the era where technologies are updated every now and then. So, it’s important to download the latest version of SharePoint Modernization scanner. As more and more modern capability is added.

Step 2 – Scan Account access

As we know scan should be able to scan all the site collections. It’s recommended to use an app-only principal with tenant scoped permissions for the scan. In this way scanner will always has access. Recommended approach is azure AD App-only, you can easy the setup of your Azure AD application by using the PnP PowerShell.

 Step 3 – Step 3 can be done in two ways.

3.1 Launch the scan

Launch the scan using the user interface option. Easiest way is to simply launch ShrePoint.Modernization.Scanner.exe. Or you can go with PowerShell command prompt and navigate to that folder so that you can use the scanner through command line.

1. Scanner authentication configuration options

·         Authenticate Via Azure AD app-only.

·         Authenticate via SharePoint AD app-only.

·         Authenticate via credentials.

·         Authenticate via Multi Factor authentication.

       2. Scanner site Scope Configuration

·         Scan Full Tenant

·         Scan a defined list of site collections.

·         Scan a list of site collections defined in a CSV file.

       3. Scanner Mode configuration

·  SharePoint Modernization scanner support multiple modes, depending on your modernization mode you might want to scope you scan to a certain area or alternatively execute a full scan. That’s totally up to you. Dropdown and you will see the scope you have to scan.


       4. Scanner Options (Based on earlier options you choose some option may be inactive)

Following scan options are available:

·         Number of threads: the scan is multi-threaded; default is 10 but for larger scans 20-30 threads delivers a better scan performance (your mileage might vary)

·         Don't use search: if you're interested in page/site usage information then you can unselect this option. As this adds one search query per site collection, it will make the scan slightly slower

·         Don't include user information: check this box if you're not interested in seeing user information (usernames) as part of the produced data

·         Exclude lists: For the "Modern list and library experience" scan you can exclude lists that are only blocked due to an OOB reason

·         Export page details: By default, the scan isn't exporting detailed web part information (web part properties) as that dataset can be huge. Check this box if you would like to have the full web part option data

·         Don't generate reports: by default, you get Excel-based dashboards as scan output, but you can skip these if you're only interested in the raw CSV files

·         Disable feedback: the scanner will send feedback to Microsoft to help improve the scanner. If you don't like that, then feel free to check this box

·         Separator: the default separator for the generated CSV files is a comma, but you can change this to semi-colon if you would prefer that

·         Date format: the default date format in the generated CSV files is month/day/year. You can optionally switch this to a day/month/year

3.2 This is an alternative option

Launch your scan using command line. Use only if you are familiar with command line.

So, this is something we all were waiting for the output of SharePoint modernization Scanner. (I ran this scanner on my own using Executable file)


 

Article by – Aakarshi Dave

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