Migration
SharePoint 2003 to 2007 PDF Print E-mail
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Reliably Migrate from sharepoint 2003 or 2007 to sharepoint 2007
Microsoft’s sharepoint 2007 products and technologies offer improved functionality over the 2003 versions. If you want to leverage the advantages of sharepoint 2007—such as enhanced workflow, records management and improved security—you must consider a migration to this new environment. If your organization was an early adopter of sharepoint 2007, you can see the value of consolidating sharepoint content to a less sprawling sharepoint environment and of reorganizing content between sharepoint sites.

Every migration presents its own set of challenges. You need a reliable, low impact and easy-to-use migration solution that allows you to fully leverage sharepoint 2007 functionality. Quest Migration Manager for sharepoint enables organizations to migrate content from sharepoint 2003 to
SharePoint 2007 and consolidate and reorganize content from multiple sharepoint 2007 locations.

Migrate sharepoint 2003 to 2007
Maintain What You’ve Already Built in sharepoint With Migration Manager, you can map sharepoint 2003 sites, document libraries and lists directly to your desired location in sharepoint 2007. This allows you to maintain the data structure you’ve already built in sharepoint 2003, reducing the effort to properly set up and use your sharepoint 2007 environment.

Change the Structure to Meet Your Current Needs
If you’d rather change the structure of your data in sharepoint 2007, you can easily do so with Migration Manager. It allows you to rebuild your sharepoint 2003 sites, document libraries and lists, including permissions, into a new sharepoint 2007 infrastructure and hierarchy to better meet your current needs.

Migrate sharepoint 2007 to 2007
If you’re looking to reorganize or consolidate your existing sharepoint 2007 environment, Migration Manager allows for deployment of a completely new sharepoint 2007 environment and provides the opportunity for you to restructure the site and content taxonomy during migration.

Track Progress with Project Management Framework
Migration Manager helps you execute your migration with an intuitive project management tool. Track jobs through an easy-to-use interface that displays historical, new and upcoming jobs. You’ll have the most up-to-date information about your migration at your fingertips and gain important insight into the pace and success of the project.

Pre-Migration Assessment – The Key to Success
A critical success factor for any migration project is assessing your current environment before the migration occurs. To help you complete a pre-migration assessment of your current sharepoint environment, Migration Manager includes Quest’s award-winning discovery, reporting and analysis product, Site Administrator for sharepoint. This assessment will help you gather key information, such as what sharepoint data users access the most, how often they use it, and the existing permissions structure. Knowing this information will allow you to better plan your migration.

Migration Manager for sharepoint provides the following features and benefits to organizations undertaking a sharepoint to sharepoint migration:

Job-Based Migration – Manage and monitor the entire migration project with the Migration Manager job scheduler. If anything unexpected occurs, complete information is available for troubleshooting.

Job-Based Reorganization or Consolidation – Reorganize the sharepoint 2007 internal structure to better meet your needs by migrating lists and document libraries to a new site hierarchy

Reduced Costs – Execute shorter and more efficient migrations with the automation of the migration tasks and track the progress of the migration through the administration console.

Improved Post-Migration Synchronization for Lists and Document Libraries – Synchronize modifications and deletions of list items, documents and folders as well as newly added list items and documents from source sharepoint 2003 sites to the sharepoint 2007 target. The advanced continuous
synchronization allows for prolonged coexistence of source and target environments, lowering the migration project timing restrictions and providing a smooth transition to sharepoint 2007.

Integrated sharepoint Management Console – Maintain full control over the entire sharepoint environment with the Site Administrator for sharepoint.
Last Updated on Monday, 23 February 2009 22:03
 
File share migrator for SharePoint PDF Print E-mail
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Bulk Content Migrations from File Shares to sharepoint 2007
For years, traditional file shares have been the standard way for employees to share documents and information. While useful, much of this content is unstructured as well as difficult to navigate and search. In contrast, sharepoint 2007 allows your organization to overcome many of the limitations of a traditional file share system through advanced features such as version control, alerting document check in and check out, and workflow. This has lead many organizations to move forward with plans to migrate this file content to sharepoint 2007.

But once you’ve decided to move your file share content to sharepoint, how do you do it efficiently? And how do you structure the content so your organization can quickly begin to use it in sharepoint? Quest File Migrator for sharepoint provides reliable and scalable data migrations from NTFS file shares and other sources to sharepoint 2007. It can also migrate folder content to document libraries.

Filter and Preview for Migration Success
File Migrator for sharepoint filters documents by any metadata trigger – such as name, size, and date – to ensure you’re migrating the desired information. To check that your documents are being filtered properly, File Migrator provides a preview of your first 500 documents prior to the migration to sharepoint. This ensures that your defined filters meet your migration needs before you commit to the migration.

Classify and Catergorize Data as you Migrate
File Migrator enables you to add extensive metadata information to files as they migrate, enhancing the value of your data set. This classification and categorization also makes search much more effective.

Control the Migration
File Migrator for sharepoint applies rules when you migrate to the target document library. You can use these rules to specify how you want to handle duplicate and checked out files as well as map permissions. Schedule and Execute Quick and Cost-Effective Migrations File Migrator for sharepoint includes an easy-to-use administrative console and a job scheduler, which make your migrations simpler to execute. Count on File Migrator to copy data directly from your file shares to sharepoint 2007 with no data loss. The administrative console allows you to closely monitor and manage your migration’s progress. In case of an unexpected incident, the job scheduler gives you complete information for troubleshooting.

Restructure to Your Needs
With File Migrator for sharepoint, you can map your files directly to your desired location in sharepoint 2007. Document libraries can be created using the Job Wizards to create a host for your data in sharepoint 2007. This allows you to construct the data structure that will meet your organization’s needs.

Maintain Control over the Entire sharepoint Environment
Quest’s complete offering of sharepoint management tools help you to manage your migration to sharepoint from beginning to end. Quest’s Site Administrator uses over 30 reports and built-in global policy settings to help you reduce risk and avoid poor network performance, server storage issues, and security breaches. Quickly recover lost or deleted items in sharepoint with Quest Recovery Manager for sharepoint, which recovers from native SQL and sharepoint backups. In addition to File Migrator for sharepoint, Quest migration solutions can help you migrate to sharepoint from sharepoint 2003, Exchange Public Folders and Lotus Notes applications.
Last Updated on Tuesday, 03 February 2009 15:46
 
Public folder migrator for SharePoint PDF Print E-mail
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Efficiently Transfer Essential Business Data to Promote Collaboration
Microsoft® SharePoint® continues to grow throughout organizations as the collaboration platform of choice. So as end users in your organization consider moving their essential files from Exchange Public Folders to sharepoint, you must provide a tool to ease this process.

Quest® Public Folder Migrator for sharepoint enables your organization to easily adopt sharepoint as your collaboration platform, through streamlined and cost-effective migration of Public Folder content to sharepoint 2003 and 2007 environments. Automated migrations can be performed individually or in bulk through an intuitive management console. The console facilitates content synchronization, migration of
multiple folders at one time, and permission mapping, and redirects to the new sharepoint sites. The result is a seamless switch for your end users from Public Folders to sharepoint.

Automated and Cost-Effective Bulk Migration
An easy-to-use migration wizard automatically moves Exchange Public Folder content to the new sharepoint platform. Various migration scenarios are supported: simple direct folder to list mapping, public folder tree to a document library and public folder tree to a site. Critical to the migration project is the ability to select default mapping rules to transform public folder content and metadata into sharepoint. With Public Folder Migrator, both field and permission mapping rules are provided to ensure compatible content migration and security. Public Folder Migrator also allows you to set up new e-mail aliases for existing e-mail-enabled public folders, allowing automated e-mail processes to continue. With these new e-mail aliases in place, end users can also continue to forward e-mail content to the appropriate container.

Flexible Migration Job Handling and Creation for Complete Control
With multiple migration job handling, you have the flexibility to reorganize folder hierarchy on the fly, without impacting the new sharepoint source environment. You can also improve performance by scheduling migration jobs as required, to move content at the optimum time.

The Public Folder Migrator console provides centralized project management for configuring and tracking multiple jobs and servers within the same project. In addition, it allows you to automate job creation for handling multiple jobs concurrently, accelerating the migration process.

Continuous Synchronization for Migrating the Latest Content
For large and complex migration projects, you can continually synchronize environments to discover any new items. This ensures that your migration project always includes the latest content. Any new Public Folder content that appears after the migration project begins is replicated to the target sharepoint site. Alternatively, you can use Public Folder Migrator to revoke permissions in the source Public Folder
environment so new content is not added by end users, giving you more control over where data is stored.

Migration Job Scheduling for Reducing Impact on the Organization
With Public Folder Migrator, you can easily schedule migration jobs to accommodate the unique needs of your organization. This allows you to minimize the impact on your production environment with jobs slated for off-peak hours or less hectic days of the week.

Rollback Capability for Safeguarding Your Environment
Despite the best planning and intentions, a migration might not always meet your expectations. When this occurs, Public Folder Migrator enables you to roll back to a pre-migration state. It also allows Outlook users to continue using Public Folders while you assess the environment and adjust for another migration.

Seamless Switch to sharepoint for Business Continuity
With Public Folder Migrator, you can switch instantly to the new sharepoint content. This allows you to carefully plan migration projects and put them in effect when required for the organization. For example, you can migrate content and test the target environment before users actually connect to the new sharepoint site. Once migration is complete, the new sharepoint site is displayed in the preview pane whenever users select the migrated Public Folder in Outlook. This encourages them to start collaborating on the new sharepoint platform.

Public Folder Migrator supports migrations from Exchange Public Folders to sharepoint 2003 and 2007 technologies (WSS v2/v3, SPS and MOSS). Content can be migrated from Exchange Server 2000, 2003 and 2007 including permissions. Exchange 5.5 content can also be migrated but without the permission structure.Pre-Migration Assessment for Ensuring Success Assessing your current Public Folder environment before migrating to sharepoint is critical to your success. With Public Folder Migrator for sharepoint, Quest offers a free, six-month trial of the award-winning Exchange reporting and analysis product, MessageStats™. This powerful tool can help you understand where your Public Folders reside, how they are being used, how active they are, their permission structures and other relevant information. MessageStats will help you develop your project plan and create migration jobs for Public Folder Migrator.
Last Updated on Tuesday, 03 February 2009 15:32
 
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Simple, Reliable, Cost-Effective Migration from Lotus Notes
Organizations that use Lotus Notes, QuickPlace, or Domino.Doc as their workflow, collaborative application, and document management platform are moving to sharepoint 2007 for this functionality. Since Notes applications are often complex and highly customized, this type of migration can be much more difficult than moving Notes mail and calendar data to Exchange. To ease the challenge of this type of migration, you need a tool to analyze your Notes applications and reliably move your essential application content without impacting end users. Quest Notes Migrator for sharepoint is a cost-effective tool for this kind of migration. It gives you an in-depth understanding of your current Notes usage to help you build a comprehensive migration plan. Then you can use Notes Migrator for a simple, automated migration of standard Notes applications or an advanced migration of complex custom Notes applications.

Analyze Your Environment
Notes Migrator for sharepoint analyzes your Notes application environment so you can estimate the scope of the migration project and manage the process more effectively. Prior to the migration, Notes Migrator classifies all the databases in your environment, identifies unused applications, assesses data and design complexity, and makes migration recommendations. This reduces your risk of migration failure and keeps you in control.

Reliably Migrate Business-Critical Content
Notes Migrator for sharepoint provides reliable, scalable content migrations from Lotus Notes, QuickPlace and Domino.Doc to sharepoint lists, document libraries and InfoPath forms. Advanced data extraction capabilities ensure that all of your valuable business data is preserved.

Choose the Best Migration Path
Notes Migrator for sharepoint supports bulk migration of entire databases or user-driven, ad-hoc transfer of selected documents. This allows you to decide which method best suits your organization. This tool can be used in conjunction with Quest Notes Migrator for Exchange, allowing you to leverage a robust migration solution from a single vendor.

Reduce Migration Costs
Notes Migrator for sharepoint features customizable, reusable data definitions that help dramatically reduce the cost of migration. Easy to use and deploy, the tool allows you to quickly start and complete your migration so you can rapidly get the most from your sharepoint investment.

Notes Migrator for sharepoint Benefits:
Analyze Before You Migrate - Determine the scope of the project by detecting Notes databases across all servers in every location. Classify applications, analyze application usage, design and data complexity, and report on environmental details to ensure your migration success.

Manage Migration Project - Decide what data to migrate and determine where it should go based on usage, the characteristics of the application and complexity of the data. Monitor each task and keep control of the migration process.

Perform a Complete Migration - Migrate all of your complex Notes, QuickPlace, and Domino.Doc data, including rich text, embedded images, attachments, OLE objects, DocLinks, and formulas.

Leverage the Benefits of sharepoint - Take advantage of advanced sharepoint features such as content types, folders, lookup fields, approval state, versioning, InfoPath Form Libraries, and Quick Launch.

Automate the Migration Process – Assign and provision entire sharepoint sites and/or run the appropriate migration jobs for each database using a powerful rules-based engine.

Manage Simple and Complex Jobs - Use standard data definitions for common application templates such as discussion, document library and team room. Create reusable, advanced data definitions for complex custom Notes applications.

Ensure Security Throughout the Migration - Migrate user and group permissions, application-level access control lists and Notes document-level security to the equivalent sharepoint security constructs.

Retain Built-In Notes Links - Leverage Notes Migrator’s Link Tracking Service to ensure that your interdocument DocLinks continue to work before, during and after the migration process.

Automatically Map Users and Groups - Preserve all identities in Notes; automatically map Notes user and group names to Active Directory identities for use in sharepoint records.

Empower Users to Migrate Content - Integrate Notes Migrator for sharepoint into the Notes client to allow users to select the documents they want to migrate. This ad-hoc migration support complements the tool’s bulk migration capabilities and allows users to transfer content via simple drag and drop operations.

Maintain Control of the Migration - Use a powerful LotusScript application programming interface (API) to customize existing Notes applications to connect them to sharepoint. This gives you complete control of the migration process and the end-user experience.
Last Updated on Tuesday, 03 February 2009 15:24