Sitecore XM Cloud Content Migration: Plan and Strategy

Sitecore XM cloud content migration can be approached in various ways. The first thing that comes to mind when working on the Sitecore upgrade project to XM Cloud is content migration. Choosing the right method helps reduce migration time and avoid errors. I will outline the approach that best meets our client’s needs in this blog. We were provided with a master database backup that had all the content. Our task was to move Sitecore data, including media, from Sitecore 9.3 to XM Cloud.

We connected the legacy Sitecore database to the XM Cloud instance for migration. My colleague Martin Miles wrote a detailed blog on XM Cloud content migration: connecting the external database

Sitecore Items Data Migration to XM Cloud

Extracting items and their field data was relatively straightforward. We used PowerShell scripts to export item field data into CSV files. These CSVs were later imported into ...