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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.
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