Use Case: Identifying SharePoint Sites with Custom Web Parts
A common SharePoint use case: After several test migrations, you’ve identified several custom and third-party web parts that are causing aspects of your migration to fail. What you would like to do is identify all of the sites on your farm (or across multiple farms) that contain these custom web parts, and then either test those sites individually, flag them for later migration when you’ve had a chance to upgrade or replace the offending web parts, or even go through and remove the web parts so that the migration can continue.
Using Davinci Migrator’s unique query-by-example interface, you can very quickly identify non-standard web parts using one of the out-of-the-box SQL query reports, allowing you to better organize and orchestrate your SharePoint migration.
Step 1: Open the Discovery tab in Davinci Migrator, select the farm or farms to be searched, and under Custom Queries on the left, select the pre-built query ‘Sites with custom web parts’
Step 2: Select ‘View’ to run your query, and the results are presented below. You can then select ‘Add sites to Migration Set’ to open your current lists of sites to be migrated (in this case, by team), and determine where to add your query results.
Once within the migration set, you can further refine your rules and filters about what is to be migrated, and schedule your migration. One of the most powerful aspects of the Davinci Migrator’s query capability is your ability to modify your own SQL commands on the fly, making the tool easy to use out-of-the-box, but also very granular for those full-fidelity migrations.
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