Metalogix Content Migration and Upgrade for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010

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.

These approaches:

·         Do not support gradual upgrades

·         Do not support granular migration

·         Do not allow administrators to reorganize content during migration

·         Have limited support for 32-bit source systems

·         Do not support upgrades from SharePoint 2003 directly to SharePoint 2010

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, Power Shell support, reorganization of sites, templates, and databases during the process, as well as many other enhanced capabilities. 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.

Key Benefits

·         Migrates SharePoint Sites, Lists and Libraries between Servers with full fidelity.

·         Upgrade from SharePoint 2003 and SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010.

·         Re-Organize and re-template your SharePoint Content.

·         Manage your upgrade with zero downtime.

·         Migrate to the cloud or hosted SharePoint environments and reduce infrastructure costs.

Supported Source Systems

·         SharePoint Portal Server (SPS) 2003

·         Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) v2

·         Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (Moss) 2007

·         Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) v3

·         SharePoint Server 2010

·         SharePoint Foundation 2010

·         SQL Server 2000, 2005, and 2008 Unattached SharePoint databases (Read Only)

·         Microsoft Online Services (MOS) [a.k.a BPOS, Exchange Online, or SharePoint Online ] Standard and Dedicated Versions

Key Features

Easy to Use

Run your migration with a tree-based, copy-and-paste-style user interface that is similar to the familiar Windows File Explorer.

Reorganize or re-template sites during migration

Re-define site structure while migrating. Split Sites and Site collections into multiple targets and re-template Sites. Administrators and content owners can define what content is migrated.

Migrate all list types

Migrate Document Libraries, Issues, Tasks, Contacts, Announcements, Discussions and Custom Lists while preserving views, metadata, and user-edit information.

Retain your valuable data

Preserve all views, version chains, metadata, and user-edit information.

Migrate Permissions

Map and migrate site permissions from WSSv2/SPS 2003 and WSSv3/MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010 easily.

Migrate Web Parts

Migrate all out-of-the-box and custom web parts from WSSv2/SPS 2003 and WSSv3/MOSS 2007 sites to SharePoint 2010.

Connect to multiple sites

Connect to multiple SharePoint sites, across any number of servers, for easy consolidation or distribution of your SharePoint data.

Work remotely

Do all the heavy lifting for your SharePoint migration from the convenience of your own machine. SharePoint Site Migration Manager connects to any SharePoint site that you can access with your browser -- even those outside your organization’s intranet.

PowerShell Enabled

Access and extend all SharePoint Site Migration Manager Functionality via PowerShell commandlets, to script and automate all migration functionality.

Migrate from live sites and unattached content databases

SharePoint Site Migration Manager provides native capabilities to migrate directly from unattached content databases to live sites, eliminating the need to build temporary farms. Simply point to an unattached database extracts the data directly and migrate it into a live SharePoint 2010 environment.

Distribute the Workload

Use SSMM to delegate and distribute migration efforts across the organization to individual departments or content owners. This reduces IT workload, enhances buy-in on the new target system, and improves decision-making in terms of content re-organization. You can manage a distributed workload because SharePoint Site Migration Manager reads and writes only to the supported SharePoint APIs, so content is security trimmed properly. Content owners simply need read access to their source sites using the SSMM client, along with write access to their new target locations.

Latest Version

SharePoint 2010

SharePoint Foundation 2010

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010

SharePoint Site Migration Manager 2010