Microsoft’s SharePoint Products and Technologies have brought robust Enterprise Content Management and Collaboration capabilities to an increasing number of organizations in recent years. The popularity of the previous versions, such as Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 and 3.0, SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007, led many organizations to deploy SharePoint to various business units, frequently on a large scale.
Many organizations are now looking toward the SharePoint 2010 wave of products, including SharePoint Foundation 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, because of key functionality improvements in the software. These include the integration of the Office ribbon into SharePoint sites, a more scalable services architecture, document management improvements, enterprise taxonomy and many more. Unfortunately, the migration path provided by Microsoft does not always address organizations’ needs. The out-of-box upgrade approaches available from Microsoft suffer from fairly significant limitations.
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These limitations present organizations looking to upgrade to SharePoint 2010 with significant planning challenges that will limit both proof of concept and full implementations. Organizations must also ensure that the upgrade approach they select will not jeopardize the content on the existing platform. Fortunately, Metalogix has released version 4 of SharePoint Site Migration Manager (SSMM 2010), a tool to migrate content from legacy SharePoint 2003/2007 technologies directly to SharePoint 2010. SSMM 2010 allows organizations to take advantage of SharePoint’s new features without putting their valuable content at risk. SSMM 2010 provides significant advantages over existing migration tools and techniques, allowing for flexible migration between SharePoint versions and farms, granular migration, PowerShell support, reorganization of sites, templates, and databases during the process, as well as many other enhanced capabilities. |
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Unlike some content migration options, SSMM 2010 uses only SharePoint’s fully supported APIs to migrate content, which ensures that it will not affect existing support agreements with Microsoft.
This paper discusses both Microsoft’s out-of-box migration approaches and Metalogix’s SharePoint
Site Migration Manager 2010. It describes common migration scenarios, and how those scenarios can be addressed using the different migration approaches. The document itself is particularly helpful for SharePoint administrators who are specifically tasked with migrating SharePoint content and can be used to better understand the capabilities of SSMM 2010.
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