Post-migration activities

After you migrate to IBM® WebSphere® Portal Version 8.5, you need to complete extra tasks depending on how you customized the source portal environment and which components you used. First, complete the Applying the latest Combined Cumulative Fix updates task, then you can begin the post-migration tasks followed by enabling new functionality.

  • Administrative tasks
    To ensure that your new environment functions properly, complete administrative tasks such as enabling automatic synchronization, migrating web server configurations, configuring a federated LDAP user registry, and more.
  • Portal tasks
    Complete the post-migration tasks specific to the way that you use WebSphere Portal.
  • Theme tasks
    To ensure that your new environment functions properly, complete theme tasks such as updating the default theme and skin or applying themes to your pages.
  • Development tasks
    Complete the development tasks that are required after the migration to ensure that your environment functions properly.
  • Database tasks
    There are different post-migration tasks that are required depending on the type of database that is used.
  • Add-ons, features, and third-party integration tasks
    Complete the post-migration tasks that are required based on the way you use your WebSphere Portal environment.
Parent topic: Next steps