Metalogix Releases SharePoint Site Migration Manager to Ease Upgrades to Microsoft SharePoint 2010

New Metalogix Solution is the Industry’s First SharePoint Migration Product to Integrate PowerShell Scripting

WALTHAM, Mass., May 12, 2010 – Metalogix Software, one of the leading providers of solutions for Microsoft SharePoint migration, management, and archiving as well as Exchange migration and archiving, today announced the release of SharePoint Site Manager 2010 (SSMM). Available today, Metalogix SSMM 2010 is the first solution to offer unparalleled ease of use with the robust capabilities of Windows PowerShell. SSMM 2010 with PowerShell scripting enables organizations to rapidly and flexibly transition content from their existing Microsoft SharePoint Server 2003 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 to SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint Foundation.

SharePoint Site Migration Manager 2010 offers gradual/granular migration support with no service pack or hardware prerequisites. It allows SharePoint administrators to define when specific content is migrated and they can use it to re-organize and re-template SharePoint sites and lists easily as they migrate.

With the rich PowerShell integration in SharePoint Site Migration Manager, administrators can easily script even the most complex migration scenarios and fully automate migration jobs. Metalogix SSMM 2010 is the first SharePoint migration solution to allow users to capture any migration or content management task as a reusable script, which can then be customized using the flexibility and richness of PowerShell.

“The community is excited about SharePoint 2010 and Metalogix provides organizations with an upgrade path that is easy to use and supported,” said Chris Risley, CEO Metalogix. “As the first SharePoint migration and management solution to leverage SharePoint 2010 support for PowerShell scripting, SharePoint Site Migration Manager 2010 enables administrators to tackle complex migration and deployment scenarios in an efficient, repeatable and automated way either through our familiar user interface or a command line. They can get up to speed quickly and with no training.”

Metalogix gives organizations a comprehensive way to standardize on SharePoint 2010 by combining SharePoint Site Migration Manager with solutions for migrating content from existing ECM and social computing systems (blogs and wikis) as well as from websites, file systems and public folders. The company’s storage management and content management solutions help customers to run SharePoint efficiently by minimizing content database growth and content sprawl, maximizing its benefits for both IT and business units while reducing their total cost of ownership.

“Metalogix is a trusted Microsoft Partner with proven expertise in supporting complex migration scenarios,” said Arpan Shah, Director for SharePoint at Microsoft Corp. “We're pleased that they will be enabling our customers to more easily take full advantage of the SharePoint 2010 platform.”

SharePoint Site Migration Manager—like all of Metalogix’s migration products—is 100% Microsoft compliant. It interacts with SharePoint only through supported APIs—with no direct writes to the database—and supports SharePoint Online. SharePoint Site Migration Manager 2010 is available today.

For more information please visit: http://www.metalogix.com/Products/Migration-Manager-for-SharePoint/ 

Metalogix is the innovation leader in solutions that migrate content into SharePoint, keep SharePoint environments running smoothly, manage the content throughout its lifecycle, and archive content for compliance and e-discovery. Metalogix Migration Products move content into SharePoint from almost any source system: from one SharePoint version to another (2003, 2007, 2010, WSSv2 or WSSv3), from Enterprise Content Management systems (e.g. Documentum, eRoom, Stellent (Oracle Content Server)), and from file systems, Exchange public folders, blogs, wikis and websites on-premise or in the cloud. Metalogix StoragePoint Products help improve SharePoint performance, security and scalability while lowering backup and recovery time frames by keeping the content BLOBs out of SQL Server.

About Metalogix Software

Metalogix Software delivers award-winning content migration, management and archiving software that enables organizations to migrate, manage, archive and recover enterprise content to ensure availability, regulatory compliance, efficiency and cost effectiveness. It supports its more than 5,000 customers worldwide from eight office locations; Boston, Dallas and Ann Arbor (U.S.), Vancouver and Halifax (Canada), London (UK), Bratislava (Slovakia), and Schaffhausen (Switzerland). Originally founded in 2001, Metalogix of Canada merged with the archiving business of H & S Software in 2008 and added the StoragePoint product line in 2010. The company is profitable and privately held. Metalogix’s investors include Insight Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners. Metalogix is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner.