The Challenge
Larsen & Toubro is one of the world’s largest engineering, construction, and technology groups. Its Learning & Training function ran on SharePoint, holding the material its people rely on to build skills and stay current. That content needed to move to a new SharePoint home.
Migrations like this are deceptively risky. Structure, permissions, and links can all break in transit, and a learning library that loses its organisation loses much of its value. Larsen & Toubro needed its Learning & Training SharePoint sites and data migrated cleanly, with nothing lost on the way and no disruption to the people who depend on the content every day.
What Evocate Delivered
Evocate was engaged to deliver the Learning & Training SharePoint migration end to end:
- Content assessment: reviewed the existing Learning & Training SharePoint sites, their structure, and how the content was used, before moving anything
- Migration planning and execution: planned and ran the move to the target SharePoint environment, preserving structure, metadata, and access throughout
- Structure and permissions preservation: carried the information architecture and access model across intact, so libraries and navigation worked the same on the other side
- Validation: verified the migrated content so libraries, permissions, and navigation behaved exactly as expected before the move was called complete
Outcomes
Larsen & Toubro’s Learning & Training content now sits in its intended SharePoint home with its organisation intact. Staff find material where they expect it, with the same structure and permissions that were there before. The risks that come with any content migration, broken links, lost metadata, and scrambled access, were managed out, so the move was a step forward rather than a clean-up exercise. The learning library kept working through the transition, which for a training function serving a workforce this size is the difference between a smooth upgrade and a costly interruption.
Why This Matters
A SharePoint migration is never just copying files. The value is in the structure, the way content is organised, secured, and found, and that is the first thing to break when a migration is rushed. Larsen & Toubro shows that even the largest, most technically capable organisations benefit from a specialist who does these moves cleanly. For any organisation moving a content estate between SharePoint environments, the lesson is the same: assess it, preserve the structure, and validate before you call it done.
