This session is about a customer project which we shifted from a SharePoint / Office 365 Classic UI site to Modern UI. One of the main goals was to establish the new communication site as homepage.
Problems using the classic sites have been:
- Complicated editing for non-IT professionals (especially Marketing personal needed to change pages)
- Performance issues
- Lack of mobile device support
- UI quite old, you could say ugly
First of all we started a proof of concept together with Marketing involved. From that point it was quite easy to get the budget approved. Finally there was the last challenge - the migration.

After we've analyzed the source, we could identify around 400 pages in two languages. And to make real use of the new communication site and its webparts, we needed to do manual copy & paste.
Another problem was the usage of variations as communication sites do not support them any longer. Additional customizations such as design solutions using CSS and masterpage (not recommended any more) have been implemented.
The customer decided to drop the design solutions and to work without variations, as he didn't use machine translation and there was always a manual step - so just a little change in the process.

In the same process, we've moved the collaboration sites (team sites) from classic sites to teams. In the first step, users are accessing it through SharePoint, as the layout is pretty much the same like the Intranet.

In this session you'll get insights in this customer project and were 3rd party tools can help or limit you. Finally I explain what "Groupify" and "Teamify" means.