Features
Fast Full Fidelity Migration
Migration Manager for SharePoint gives you the flexibility to maximize the potential of your hardware. Using sophisticated performance improvements, the latest version of Migration Manager for SharePoint will scale up performance as you increase the available resources.
Workflow Support
Migration Manager for SharePoint supports migrating out of the box, SharePoint Designer, and Nintex workflows
Streamline migration process with a user-friendly client interface
SharePoint super-users, administrators and content owners can quickly and easily identify data to migrate using the familiar tree-based, copy-and-paste style user interface. Migration Manager for SharePoint is also a security-trimmed client application, which allows all levels of users the ability to migrate and manage data. Because of this, migration project managers can delegate and distribute work effort across the organization to reduce IT workload and facilitate content re-organization decision making. Because Migration Manager reads and writes only to the supported SharePoint APIs, content is always secure and supported.
Retain valuable metadata
Migration Manager for SharePoint allows users to preserve views, version chains, metadata and user-edit information as it maps and migrates site permissions and web part content during the move to SharePoint 2010. Users can also simply migrate document libraries, issues, tasks, contacts, announcements, discussions and custom lists. They have the ability to easily compare data between environments or between SharePoint versions with Migration Manager for SharePoint’s powerful differential reporting capabilities. Compare content between a live site and QA, or between a backup file and the live SharePoint site, to instantly see what has been added, modified or deleted.
Manage SharePoint to control SharePoint sprawl
SharePoint sprawl is a phenomenon that occurs as the size of data rapidly increases to the point it limits the effectiveness of SharePoint. Reduce the cost and combat SharePoint sprawl by using Migration Manager for SharePoint. Organizations can connect in a way that best fits its needs by connecting to multiple SharePoint sites across any number of servers for easy consolidation or distribution of SharePoint data. The management features in Migration Manager enable organizations to reorganize servers and the ability to merge, split lists, promote sites-to-site collection and re-template to take advantage of new features, which is particularly useful for organizations with terabytes of SharePoint data.
Use PowerShell scripts to customize operations to suit your needs
Users can access and extend all of Migration Manager for SharePoint’s capabilities via PowerShell commands to script and automate migration tasks. There are vast possibilities with PowerShell scripts as users can batch multiple list migration operations for convenience and re-run at any time or run migrations at night and view the results and logs in the morning. The process is simple as once a job is created, you can generate a PowerShell script with one click of the mouse to customize or schedule job along with other admin processes.
Preserve application compliance
Migration Manager for SharePoint allows users to run migration activity through the supported SharePoint APIs – there are no unsupported, direct writes to the SharePoint database. In addition, it is the only migration solution approved by Microsoft for Office 365 Dedicated or BPOS Dedicated (BPOS-D) environments.
Migration Manager for SharePoint also allows users to do all the heavy lifting from the convenience of their own machine as it is a lightweight .NET client application. It connects to any SharePoint site that can be accessed with a browser – even those hosted in the cloud or outside the organization’s intranet.
