Gradual Migration of Plans

[Angel]

I was told that doing the full migration of plans from 2003 to 2007 sometimes
causes issues in which not all of the plans are migrated. Due to this and the
fact that our DB has a large number of plans, tasks & assignments (~1900
plans), I am considering doing a gradual migration. So first, has anyone
encountered issues doing a full migration on a large number of plans or
should I just kick it off and see what falls out (is an error report
generated on those that don't successfully migrate or does it stop the
process)?

Also, I'm not really clear on how you state which project plans you want
migrated in a gradual migration. It appears as though you must enter the
names of the project plans into the migration tool. Is the easiest way to do
this just to copy the project plan names out of the Project Center in Web
Access and just paste in sets of names for each run?

Thanks!

 

[Gagan Goel - MCP PMP]

Angel,

I think doing a full migration for these many number of projects may not be
a best practice. You should stagger the migration by migrating couple
hundreds at a time and see how long does that take, depending on your system
performance and data quality you will get an assessment of how long does it
take to migrate that set and then you can calculate how long will the total
migration take.

Migration tool basically is a GUI less MS Project so the impact to the
system is simlar to publishing 1900 projects to your system from front end.
Your system queue will be exploded with jobs.

My recommendation DO NOT kick migration with 1900 projects at one time, try
migrating 50-100 in the beginning and do the assessment/analysis to plan the
phased migration.

The ultilty has options to stop or continue on failed publishes, so
depending on what option you pick it will continue or stop.

Another recommendation is to even find out if all these 1900 projects need
to be migrated, there is a huge oppurtunity to clean up projects and archive
them offline at this point.

Hope this helps. Please do rate the post if you feel it is helpful.

Gagan