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​Hillsboro is Oregon’s fifth largest city

Challenges

The City originally implemented SharePoint WSS 3.0 (2007) around 2010. In 2015, the City started a project to migrate that environment into a new single SharePoint Foundation 2013 environment and successfully migrated the data at that time.  However, due to resource prioritizations, the City did not fully complete the migration as originally intended.  Instead, select small sites were migrated or developed and the rest used on the Foundation 2013 platform with links back to the WSS 3.0 platform. The originally imported data still resided on the Foundation 2013 platform, but was outdated. In 2018 Hillsboro contacted SimpleSharepoint, to design, lead, configure, and complete this project for the City. This project was to retire the existing SharePoint WSS 3.0 (2007) server and SharePoint 2013 server and migrate existing SharePoint data from those systems into a new SharePoint 2013 farm with a SQL 2014 server backend for data storage.

• Build new 2013 farm
• Migrated sections form 2010 incrementally
• Visually appealing user interface branded to look like Hillsboro public site
• New custom Home page
• Provide an updated site with solid information architecture to allow editors to maintain designated sections
• Trained a small group of SharePoint editors/power users with little to no experience in SharePoint on the simplest way to maintain department sites for their business uses
• Provide a solution that is quick, responsive, user friendly, and simple enough to use that it improves the operational efficiency of City
• Great search of files shares
• Master calendars rolling up sub departments
• A wiki-based knowledge base for a range of areas
  
• Ongoing mentoring to ensure portal provides best ROI

• Deployed a customized search results and refiners panel
• The staff directory utilizes our PeopleFinder app
• Simple tabs
• Mega menus