Best of February 2014: SharePoint 2013 Migration Tips

In 2013, the latest version of SharePoint (SharePoint 2013) was released by Microsoft with remarkable features and capabilities. Looking the latest version, you may want migrate your SharePoint environment into latest 2013 platform, but facing minor problem with running SharePoint 2007 as Microsoft doesn’t support direct migration to 2013. Not to worry at all, here we have solution for same.

First of all, we have to check your migration alternatives.

1^st Alternative: Database attach

Implementing this option, the database schema should be upgraded by attaching a content database from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010. After that, you have to attach it to SharePoint 2013. For doing this, an intermediate environment of SharePoint 2010 is required. Fundamentally, twice the migration effort along with an extra environment is involved to create and support.

2^nd Alternative: Content migration

Using this alternative, you can easily direct migration of content from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2013. This process doesn’t include the upgrade of the database schema. However, a third-party migration tool is required and can be run directly on the target SharePoint 2013 environment. In a nutshell, the current SharePoint 2007 sites and libraries can be easily scanned, develop new sites and structures in 2013, and copies content to the new libraries and lists though retaining the metadata, security and other properties.

Available Migration Tools

Uncountable migration tools are available from different well-known vendors in the SharePoint market. However, mostly tolls deliver same features and perform alike functions, some can make certain tools better than others. Content Matrix from Metalogix is one of the recommendable tools.

Exceptional Features:

• Retains all metadata – also can add metadata fields in the upgrade
  
  
• Go directly from 2007 to 2013
  
  
• Keeps permissions intact
  
  
• Batch migration
  
  
• Up to 125GB/hour
  
  
• Changing of template at point of migration
  
  
• Source and Target environment – check the sites and click migrate
  
  
• Easy to use UI – migrate site collection, sites, library, or items
  
  
• Selection of which sites to upgrade
  
  
• Support migration of un-ghosted pages
  
  
• Full and Incremental migration
  
  
• Migration of workflows (OOB, SPD and Nintex)
  
  
• Choose content database at point of migration per site collection
  
  

Let’s see advantages available for using such tools instead of the traditional database attaches method:

• Incremental and full migration – full migration first, then a subsequent incremental to migration changes
  
  
• Old database schema does not need to be upgraded – sites are recreated on new database
  
  
• Batch migrations – selection of a set of site collections and then schedule the migration
  
  
• Retain original metadata and workflow associations
  
  
• No need for intermediate SharePoint 2010 environment
  
  
• Can connect to many different source farms
  
  
• Skip over SharePoint 2010 version
  
  
• GUI support for splitting content DBs
  
  
• Fix hard coded links
  
  

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