Now that we have a plan to migrate our databases, we need to consider the other objects that are required for our new environment to work as expected. Just expand all of the data trees throughout SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) to see how many components can potentially be migrated. We actually used SSMS as a guide to visualize the things we’d need to migrate, outside of SSRS, SSAS, SSIS, and other non-engine-related services.