SharePoint 2016 End of Life: Evaluate Whether to Migrate, Modernize, or Simplify

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Why Choose Synoptek for Your SharePoint Decision

Synoptek brings deep Microsoft expertise and decades of experience delivering SharePoint migration services. We help organizations migrate SharePoint 2016 to SharePoint Online by simplifying complexity, modernizing what matters, and building a strategy aligned with their broader technology and business goals.

Deep Microsoft Expertise for SharePoint

As a Microsoft Solutions Partner, we help organizations evaluate SharePoint migration paths, modernization opportunities, platform decisions, licensing considerations, and long-term investment strategies.

25+ Years Helping Mid-Market Organizations Grow

For more than two decades, we've helped mid-market organizations modernize technology, simplify complexity, and create technology strategies that support growth.

Connected To the Broader Microsoft Ecosystem

Our SharePoint Online migration services draw on deep expertise across the Microsoft stack. We build a tailored SharePoint migration strategy that aligns with your Microsoft ecosystem while supporting security, data governance, and scalable AI adoption.

Built Around Experiences, Not Infrastructure

As a Managed Experience Provider (MxP), we focus on how employees collaborate, find information, access applications, and get work done.

What Most Organizations Are Missing

SharePoint 2016 end-of-life presents an opportunity to step back and evaluate whether your current SharePoint environment still supports the way your organization works. It doesn’t mean everything should move or everything should remain. It rather calls for evaluation of:

  • Which sites, documents, and applications are actively used and deliver business value
  • Which workflows and business processes support critical operations
  • What content should be retained, archived, consolidated, or retired
  • Which workloads would benefit from modernization
  • Whether the current environment is ready for future AI initiatives or broader Microsoft 365 strategy

The real challenge with staying on SharePoint 2016 is carrying unnecessary complexity into whatever comes next.

Here’s What Our Clients Say

"During a major outage following our upgrade, the Synoptek team was relentless in representing our interests. They drove urgently for answers, challenged incorrect assumptions, and worked through the weekend without pause. Diligent, thorough, and fiercely committed, this was what Synoptek was for us as a partner."

— Vice President, Information Technology of a Chemical Supplier Industry firm

"We thank the Synoptek team for all the support, guidance, and attention to the project. Phase 1 was a success, and our leadership team was extremely satisfied with the results we have obtained. The team has provided us with a platform that will take the company to the next level with companywide communication and collaboration."

— Project Operations Manager of an Industrial Tools Company

"Synoptek did a fantastic job with the SharePoint/Teams migration. We really appreciate the effort from everyone on the team to make this project a success."

— Senior Consultant of an IT Company

"Working with the Synoptek team has been great. They made sure our new system very closely matched what we were doing prior to the transition. Synoptek was always there to address everything that we had questions about or things that we saw that were unexpected. So transitioning your main workflow is not an easy thing, but Synoptek really put in a lot of effort to make it as seamless as possible."

— Senior Product Manager of a Logistics Firm

Start with a Complimentary SharePoint Estate Assessment

Leverage our complimentary SharePoint Estate Assessment to discuss your environment and priorities with our experts. Within 48 hours, you will receive an actionable roadmap that helps you rationalize what belongs in your future environment before committing to a SharePoint to SharePoint Online migration, upgrade or platform change.

Retain What Creates Value

Identify sites, content, applications, and business processes that continue to support your organization's needs.

Modernize What Matters

Find workloads that would benefit from improved collaboration, governance, automation, user experiences, or integration with Microsoft 365.

Retire What No Longer Serves a Purpose

Reduce unnecessary content, duplication, obsolete sites, and legacy complexity before investing in the future.

Migrate With Confidence

Move only the workloads that belong in your future-state environment when you migrate SharePoint 2016 to SharePoint Online, while pursuing another modernization path where it makes more sense.

Enable Future AI Initiatives

Assess whether content, ownership, permissions, and governance structures can support future AI use cases.

Value We Have Delivered

2TB

Data migrated to SharePoint Online with zero data loss

80+

Country footprint managed through SharePoint Online

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. SharePoint Server 2016 reached end of support on July 14, 2026. Organizations still running SharePoint 2016 should evaluate their options, including migration, modernization, consolidation, archiving, or retirement.

SharePoint 2016 end of life means Microsoft is no longer delivering any security updates, bug fixes, or technical support. This can increase security, compliance, and operational risks while making it harder to integrate with newer Microsoft technologies.

Not necessarily. A SharePoint 2016 migration should begin with an evaluation of business value, usage, content, workflows, governance, and future requirements. Some workloads may be migrated to SharePoint Online, while others may be retained, modernized, consolidated, archived, or retired.

SharePoint data migration involves more than moving files from one environment to another. It can include evaluating content, metadata, permissions, sites, workflows, applications, dependencies, and governance requirements to determine what should move and how it should be structured in the destination environment.

A SharePoint 2016 upgrade may be appropriate in some situations, but it should be evaluated against other options such as SharePoint Online and broader Microsoft 365 modernization. The right decision depends on your business requirements, existing environment, technical constraints, and long-term strategy.

SharePoint migration services help organizations plan and execute the transition from legacy SharePoint environments to a future-state platform. This can include assessment, rationalization, content and data migration, modernization, governance, testing, and implementation.

Look for a SharePoint migration service provider that can understand content, governance, business processes, Microsoft 365, security, data, and the broader technology environment so the migration supports your long-term goals.

You receive a prioritized roadmap for retaining, modernizing, consolidating, retiring, or migrating workloads based on business value and future-state objectives.

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