OK, this is the 4th installment of this blog series, and I have to admit that I have sort of tricked you. At one level or another, all of these articles have tried to introduce you to some of the steps to take as part of your upgrade.
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In our first 2 installments of this series, SharePoint 2013 - End of Life, What Next? and Migrating SharePoint 2013 to a modern version of SharePoint: Is there an easy way? we discussed what the “End of Life” for SharePoint 2013 this upcoming April means for organizations and if there is an easy way to move it to something newer.
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In my last article, we talked about Microsoft’s SharePoint 2013 reaching end of life in April of 2023. This means that organizations using SharePoint 2013 must move to other options, and we gave a brief overview of the platforms that Microsoft has provided as choices going forward.
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A New Year always brings a lot of new opportunities, but sometimes it also signals that it is time to let go of things from the past. One of the things we will all have to let go of soon is SharePoint 2013.
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Update November 2021
Time to make some updates to this post! Microsoft has recently made some changes to the terminology and user interface (UI) for the process that this blog post covers. Thanks to the new updates, Site Designs are now called Site Templates. So anywhere you may see the term Site Design or Site Template within SharePoint, this post, or other articles covering the same topic, know that they are the same thing with a new name. The basic functionality remains the same – we can apply our own custom themes, create libraries, set some branding properties, edit the navigation, and more. The only major differences with this update are that the UI has changed for applying templates, templates have to be applied after the fact (not during site creation in the admin center anymore), and Microsoft has also opted to include several pre-built templates for you to use as well.
This post has been updated to change most of the references of “site design” to “site template” (the exception here is the PowerShell cmdlets – they still use the term “site design”), and also to describe how to apply the templates within the updated UI.
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