SharePoint migration used to mean hoping your custom scripts didn’t corrupt metadata and that permissions would survive the move. ShareGate changed that. But not in the way most people describe it.

The shift started with assessment. ShareGate’s pre-scan catches unsupported content, broken permission structures, and naming violations before a single file moves. At one company, that capability changed the entire conversation — we stopped planning for post-migration cleanup and started fixing problems before cutover. That’s not a small difference.

Permission issues still require a human. ShareGate surfaces the gaps. It doesn’t close them. An engineer has to read the output, understand what it’s flagging, and make a call.

That’s the part teams get wrong. ShareGate isn’t a one-time install that runs itself. The scan result is not the answer — it’s the starting point. The engineer still has to be in the room.

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