La solution AvePoint
During the migration planning process, Tannis received a
call from AvePoint. The administrators were intrigued by the fact that
the company worked closely with Microsoft as a Depth Managed Gold
Certified Portals and Collaboration Partner and Gold Certified ISV
Partner. A demo was subsequently scheduled. “From the demo, we realized
that AvePoint could definitely help us with our SharePoint migration,”
Bertrand said.
Tannis purchased and implemented DocAve Migrator.
With DocAve, administrators can perform full fidelity content migration
from previous versions of SharePoint at the site, subsite, or item
level. After installation, Bertrand set up the company’s migration plan
through DocAve’s simple administration console. Bertrand was able to
engage AvePoint’s live, 24/7 technical support team for any questions he
had. “Support was very quick to respond and knowledgeable about the
product,” Bertrand said. “Working with them was a very pleasant
experience.”
While DocAve offers flexible scheduling for
migration jobs, Bertrand opted to carry out a live migration overnight
from home through DocAve’s web-based user interface. “We wanted to have
the least amount of impact on our end users, so I began the migration
from home at 10pm,” Bertrand said. “By 3am, all 25 GB of our SharePoint
data was migrated to SharePoint 2010.” Information critical to the
business was kept intact during the transfer, and all folder structures,
document properties, associated metadata permissions, and access
controls were retained with full fidelity.
By completing its SharePoint 2010 migration in the
span of one day, Tannis completed the project 97 percent faster than
migrating using SharePoint’s native abilities would have allowed.
Furthermore, the impact on end users was minimal as hoped. “End users
only noticed the new look of SharePoint 2010, and there were absolutely
no complaints about missing data on the new platform,” Bertrand said.
On SharePoint 2010, Bertrand used DocAve Content Manager to
seamlessly manage and restructure content with minimal interruption to
business processes. DocAve comprehensively moves, copies, and
restructures SharePoint sites, content, and topology within or across
SharePoint environments. “DocAve allows me to move content from one
folder in SharePoint to another with drag-and-drop simplicity,” Bertrand
said. “It only takes about five seconds to move a document.”