Use Case: Organizing Your Migration from Multiple SharePoint Versions
A common SharePoint use case: As SharePoint adoption spreads, many organizations are looking out across the enterprise and finding many groups with their own SharePoint instances. Some of these instances may be full-fledged production systems, while others were installed and are being supported by non-IT teams who needed a unique and customized solution, and then went ahead and installed Windows SharePoint Services. As organizations look at migrating to 2010, they find themselves sorting through these disparate systems, looking for a way to organize and consolidate these sites and data into one environment.
Using Davinci Migrator, an administrator can view content from across these disparate systems and both organize and aggregate sites and data using a familiar interface -- but with more granular planning capability than competing platforms.
Step 1: Within the 'Plan' tab in Davinci, you can easily create a new migration set -- which contains the source sites to be migrated, and the destination sites to which you will migrate. Simply double-click on the left navigation to find the 2007 sites to be migrated, selecting individual sites, or right click to open the context menu and additional selection options.
Step 2: Now select your destination site collection on the right navigation, and click Add to add the source sites and destinations to the migration set below.
Step 3: You can then open a 2003 environment, navigate to the sites to be migrated, select the sites and destination site collection, and click Add.
Once added to the table below, you simply save the migration set and move to the 'Migrate' tab to set your rules and filters, then schedule your migration.
Davinci provides very granular control over your migrations from 2003, 2007, WSS 2.0 and WSS 3.0 environments to SharePoint 2010 or Foundation, allowing you to work with individuals, teams, or business units to organize and orchestrate their migrations, each with their own priorities and unique requirements. At the end of the day, if your end users are not happy with the end result, your migration was not successful. With more control over your migration, you can reduce the risks inherent in the process, and optimize the end user experience.
For more information on the Davinci Migrator for SharePoint 2010, you can review the datasheet here, or request a formal demo here.