Tuesday, 25 February 2014

2013 SharePoint Migration Becomes Much Easy


Sharepoint Development
As we all know that last year, Microsoft has released the latest version of SharePoint (SharePoint 2013) that comes with many new features and functionalities. Now, you are looking to migrate your SharePoint environment to the new 2013 platform, but lots of people are facing problem in it because you are using SharePoint 2007 and Microsoft does not offer support for direct migration to 2013.

Currently, if you are the SharePoint administrator for a large SharePoint 2007 farm and your environment has approximately 1000 site collection with 10,000+ users. And if you’re CIO like to see all the content migrated to SharePoint 2013, but resources are not allowing for a SharePoint 2010 during the migration, so you need to go directly from 2007 to 2013.

Let’s take one example to make this interesting – If your content size is approximately 1TB and you have different content database and some are bigger than the 200GB recommended size. During the migration, you want to spilt up the content in order to keep them manageable and flexible.

What are the Migration alternatives?

Content Migration:

This is one such option that enables you to directly migrate content from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2013. However, it does not include any upgrade of the database. Mainly, this one needs a third-party migration tool that can be used on the target SharePoint 2013 environment. This can also helps scanning the present SharePoint 2007 websites and libraries and it develops new websites and structures in 2013.

Database Attach:

Through this option, one can easily upgrade the database schema by attaching a content database from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010. By attaching it to SharePoint 2013, you can easily upgrade it again. It needs a middle environment of SharePoint 2010. Basically, it comes involve with twice the migration effort and an extra environment to build and support.

Different Migration Tools Obtainable

Today on the web, there are numerous migration tools obtainable from different vendors in the SharePoint market. Lots of tools provide similar features and perform same functions. However, some features are there that make some tools better than others. When it comes to one such tool that we use and recommend is Content Matrix from Metalogix:

Some Major Features:
  • Selection of which websites to upgrade

  • Go directly from 2007 to 2013

  • Up to 125GB/hour

  • Retains all metadata also can add metadata fields in the upgrade

  • Choose content database at point of migration per site collection

  • Migration of workflows (OOB, SPD and Nintex)

  • Changing of template at point of migration

  • Keeps permissions intact

  • Easy to use UI migrate site collection, sites, library, or items

  • Support migration of un-ghosted pages

  • Source and Target environment check the sites and click migrate

  • Batch migration

Some Advantages of using Tools instead of traditional database attach method:
  • GUI support for splitting content DBs

  • Skip over SharePoint 2010 version

  • Batch migration selection of a set of site collections and then schedule the migration

  • Fix hard coded links

  • Allowed to connect different source farms
  • Retain original metadata and workflow associations

  • No need for intermediate SharePoint 2010 environment

  • Old database schema does not need to be upgraded - sites are recreated on new database

So, this way you can make your migration of SharePoint easy and a lot simpler; however, if you are looking to professional SharePoint development service, you can hire SharePoint developer, who delivers excellent quality SharePoint services.

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