Sitecore XP Migration Completion

University Communications and Marketing and MSU IT are happy to announce the completion of the Sitecore XP to Sitecore XM Cloud migration project. The final migrated site launched on Thursday, Sept. 18.

This was an extensive project with work spanning 19 months that involved staff from UCAM, MSU IT and dozens of departments across campus, as well as additional technical support from Sitecore and MSU’s development partner agency, RDA. Work started with establishing the foundations of the new XM Cloud environments, progressed through development of all components and templates that serve as the basis for each web page and website, and then moved into a migration phase wherein each website from Sitecore XP that elected to migrate to XM Cloud was completely rebuilt using the new XM Cloud components.

Over 100 Websites in XM Cloud

Since the project commenced, MSU has migrated 73 websites from Sitecore XP to Sitecore XM Cloud. At the same time, 38 new websites were created directly in Sitecore XM Cloud, for a total of 111 websites in the system.

Migration by the (approximate) numbers

225,572 total components
Over 46,000 rich text editor, or RTE, components
36,658 standard pages
29,711 story pages
28,488 hero banners
Over 100,000 media library items (e.g., images)
Over 3,000 code commits deployed to the system
359 campus users trained in XM Cloud

Special thanks

We’d like to extend a special thanks to the staff heavily involved in this effort:

University Communications and Marketing

Steve Barkema
Trevor Barnes
Alex Gontarski
Patrick Hawkins
Jason Johnson
Katie Kelly
Melody Kindraka
Michele Lemon
Nicole Lycos
Bret Miller
Bobbie Roberts
Geoffrey Smith-Woollams

MSU IT

Swetha Chepyala
Jeff Daniels
Atharva Kirkole
Jill Lambert
Nate Lounds
Sivakumar Manjunath
Rintu Noelmon
Jason Noffsinger
Tirth Patel
Mourya Samala
John Schilling
Omer Sipahioglu
Kristofer Southwick

Unit staff and website owners were key to helping this effort succeed. From conducting reviews of migrated sites prior to launch, updating content as needed, and giving the migration team the space needed to complete this work, their partnership and confidence made accomplishing this effort possible. Thank you!