A Weekend in the Life of a SharePoint Consultant - Migration Playlist

Depeche Mode, Barclays Center 

When I have a SharePoint migration planned it is typically a weekend long affair. Friday night into Saturday is reserved for party time, aka final migration deltas 😆 It is the culmination of the weeks of initial data and permissions migrations, followed by countless delta's, remediating issues, and verifying the file counts and permissions align.  

A part of me secretly loves these Friday nights (why else would I do it, right?), I usually spend the days leading up to it firming up my final delta schedule, ensuring that I select 8:00 PM and not 8:00 AM, I have made that mistake before. It also means queuing up my playlist. I love all types of music, side note - the most fun job I ever had was as a sales clerk in a record store.

I will sit and watch the migrations kick off, make sure that everything is behaving itself. I am a night owl, and I can not fully trust that any tool is going to kick off when I told it to 😅

Once I am convinced that the migration gremlins are at rest, I will give in to sleep and check in first thing Saturday morning and start the process of validating and setting completed source sites to read only, while the other migrations continue.

So what do I do while I am sitting here watching the files and permissions copy, validate, and set source sites to read only? Why I rock out of course. I have different play lists for different migration scenarios.  I have to do something to keep it together, sometimes things go just right and other times they go every which way!

Some current playlists and scenarios:

Heads up Readers: These playlists contain explicit content with profane language and adult themes. Listener discretion is advised 😊

Friday night - Great attitude, happy to be here 🎉

• "Where Is My Mind?" - Pixies
• "Walking in my Shoes" - Depeche Mode
• "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out" - The Smiths
• "West End Girls" - Pet Shop Boys
• "Head Like a Hole" - Nine Inch Nails
• "Sabotage" - Beastie Boys
• "Atmosphere" - Joy Division
• "Don't Change" - INXS
• "Lips Like Sugar" - Echo & the Bunnymen
• "100%" - Sonic Youth
• "Nothing Compares 2 U" - Sinead O'Connor
• "Bizarre Love Triangle" - New Order
• "Don't You (Forget About Me)" - Simple Minds
• "Alive" - Pearl Jam
• "Love Will Tear Us Apart" - Joy Division
• "Sweet Jane" - The Velvet Underground
• "Celebrity Skin" - Hole
• "Freak Scene" - Dinosaur Jr.
• "Feed the Tree" - Belly
• "Just Like Honey" - The Jesus and Mary Chain
• "Everything Counts" - Depeche Mode
• "Dreams" - The Cranberries
• "The Emperor's New Clothes" - Sinead O'Connor
• "Blue Monday" - New Order
• "Loser" - Beck
• "Cannonball" - The Breeders
• "It's a Shame about Ray" - The Lemonheads
• "Man on the Moon" - R.E.M.
• "1979" - The Smashing Pumpkins
• "Whip-Smart" - Liz Phair

Saturday - no problems everything is cool, I can still make it to the store to pick up groceries and be free most of Sunday. ✌

Grateful Dead, pretty much any live show but a few go to's:

• Cornell, Ithaca, NY 5/8/77
• Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh, PA 6/30/95 (the last time I saw the dead before Jerry passed away) Not the best show, but bitter sweet.

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OR

Saturday - everything was throttled overnight, or the tool broke, some other horrible thing happened, I switch grocery pickup to grocery delivery and rock out to keep my cool 🤯

• "Bad Reputation" - Joan Jett
• "Holiday in Cambodia" - Dead Kennedys
• "Suffragette City" - David Bowie
• "Story of My Life" - Social Distortion
• "Lust for Life" - Iggy Pop
• "21st Century (Digital Boy)" - Bad Religion
• "Nervous Breakdown" - Black Flag
• "Gimme Danger" - Iggy and the Stooges
• "Blitzkrieg Bop" - The Ramones
• "Mountain Song" - Jane's Addiction
• "I Wanna Be Sedated" - The Ramones
• "Straight Edge" - Minor Threat
• "Ocean Size" - Jane's Addiction
• "Anarchy in the U.K." - Sex Pistols
• "Kill the Poor" - Dead Kennedys
• "Bro Hymn" - Pennywise
• "Rebel Rebel" - David Bowie
• "Low Self Opinion" - Rollins Band
• "California Über Alles" - Dead Kennedys
• "The Separation of Church and Skate" - NOFX
• "Ball and Chain" - Social Distortion
• "American Jesus" - Bad Religion
• "Police Story" - Black Flag
• "Institutionalized" - Suicidal Tendencies
• "Gimme Gimme Gimme" - Black Flag
• "Rise Above" - Black Flag
• "We're Only Gonna Die" - Bad Religion
• "London Calling" - The Clash
• "Search and Destroy" - Iggy and the Stooges
• "Shove" - L7

Saturday night into Sunday, everything is still boogered it is gonna be a long night and day 😈

• "The Dark Side of the Moon" (in its entirety)  - Pink Floyd

Sunday, things are straightening themselves out, it is going to be ok (maybe 😜)

• "Can't Hold Us" - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
• "Shake It Off" - Taylor Swift
• "Uptown Funk" - Mark Ronson & Bruno Mars
• "Empire State of Mind" - Jay-Z & Alicia Keys
• "Lose Yourself" - Eminem
• "Starships" - Nicki Minaj
• "The Real Slim Shady" - Eminem
• "Without Me" - Eminem
• "Bad Blood" - Taylor Swift
• "Till I Collapse" - Eminem
• "Intergalactic" - Beastie Boys
• "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" - Taylor Swift
• "Jump Around" - House of Pain
• "Lucky You" - Eminem
• "Mo Money Mo Problems" - The Notorious B.I.G.
• "Party Up (Up In Here)" - DMX

Finally Sleep 😴

How do you pump yourself up for a big migration event? Music? A trip to the gym to take your mind off things? Interested in hearing what works for you!