Upgrade to SharePoint 2010
Many organizations are now looking to upgrade to SharePoint 2010 and the Microsoft Wave 14 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, there are a few restrictions in the Microsoft suggested upgrade scenarios that can cause serious pains for organizations.
Top Five Limitations When Looking to Upgrade to SharePoint 2010
- 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 issues can present major challenges to organizations looking to upgrade to SharePoint 2010. Organizations must ensure that the upgrade approach they select will not harm the content on the existing SharePoint platform.
Metalogix has an upgrade and migration tool that can solve all of the limitations listed above.of Migration Manager for SharePoint (Migration Manager for SharePoint), a tool to migrate content from legacy SharePoint 2003/2007 technologies directly to SharePoint 2010. Migration Manager for SharePoint allows organizations to take advantage of SharePoint’s new features without putting their valuable content at risk. Migration Manager for SharePoint 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. Unlike some content migration options, Migration Manager for SharePoint uses only SharePoint’s fully supported APIs.
Key Benefits of Migration Manager for SharePoint
- Migrate SharePoint Sites, Lists and Libraries between servers with full fidelity
- Upgrade to SharePoint 2010 from SharePoint 2003 & SharePoint 2007
- Re-organize or re-template your SharePoint content
- Manage your upgrade with zero downtime
- Migrate to the cloud or hosted SharePoint environments and reduce infrastructure costs