Whether you are migrating between SharePoint servers, upgrading from SharePoint 2003 or 2007 to SharePoint 2010, or re-organizing your SharePoint content, SharePoint Site Migration Manager is an easy-to-use and convenient way of moving your SharePoint data. With its familiar copy-and-paste-style user interface, you can quickly migrate all SharePoint sites, libraries, lists, web parts and permissions between servers.
Key Benefits
- Migrate SharePoint Sites, Lists and Libraries between servers with full fidelity
- Upgrade from SharePoint 2003 & SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010
- Re-organize or re-template your SharePoint content
- Manage your upgrade with zero downtime
- Migrate to the cloud or hosted SharePoint environments and reduce infrastructure costs
Supported Source Systems
- SharePoint Portal Server (SPS) 2003
- Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) v2
- Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007
- Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) v3
- SharePoint Server 2010
- SharePoint Foundation 2010
- SQL Server 2000, 2005, and 2008 Unattached SharePoint databases (Read Only)
- Microsoft Online Services (MOS) [a.k.a. BPOS, Exchange Online, or SharePoint Online] Standard and Dedicated versions
- For more specific information on supported source/target systems and features, please see the SharePoint Site Migration Manager Features page.
Key Features
Easy to use
Run your migration with a tree-based, copy-and-paste-style user interface that is similar to the familiar Windows File Explorer.
Reorganize or re-template sites during migration
Re-define site structure while migrating. Split Sites and Site collections into multiple targets and re-template Sites. Administrators and content owners can define what content is migrated.
Migrate all list types
Migrate Document Libraries, Issues, Tasks, Contacts, Announcements, Discussions and Custom Lists while preserving views, metadata, and user-edit information.
Retain your valuable data
Preserve all views, version chains, metadata, and user-edit information.
Migrate Permissions
Map and migrate site permissions from WSSv2/SPS 2003 and WSSv3/MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010 easily.
Migrate Web Parts
Migrate all out-of-the-box and custom web parts from WSSv2/SPS 2003 and WSSv3/MOSS 2007 sites to SharePoint 2010.
Connect to multiple sites
Connect to multiple SharePoint sites, across any number of servers, for easy consolidation or distribution of your SharePoint data.
Work remotely
Do all the heavy lifting for your SharePoint migration from the convenience of your own machine. SharePoint Site Migration Manager connects to any SharePoint site that you can access with your browser -- even those outside your organization’s intranet.
Batch your work
Batch multiple list migration operations for convenience and re-run at any time. Run your migrations at night and view the results / logs in the morning. Once a job is created, write a PowerShell script and customize or execute it along with other admin processes.
Compliant
Run migration activity through the supported SharePoint APIs. There are no un-supported, direct writes to the SharePoint database.
PowerShell Enabled
Access and extend all SharePoint Site Migration Manager functionality via PowerShell commandlets, to script and automate all migration functionality.
Migrate from live sites and unattached content databases
SharePoint Site Migration Manager provides native capabilities to migrate directly from unattached content databases to live sites, eliminating the need to build temporary farms. Simply point to an unattached database extract the data directly and migrate it into a live SharePoint 2010 environment.
Distribute the Workload
Use SSMM to delegate and distribute migration efforts across the organization to individual departments or content owners. This reduces IT workload, enhances buy-in on the new target system, and improves decision-making in terms of content re-organization. You can manage a distributed workload because SharePoint Site Migration Manager reads and writes only to the supported SharePoint APIs, so content is security trimmed properly. Content owners simply need read access to their source sites using the SSMM client, along with write access to their new target locations.
Compare your data
Compare data between environments or between SharePoint versions easily, with SharePoint Site Migration Manager’s powerful differential reporting capabilities. Compare content between a live site and QA, or between a backup file and the live SharePoint site, to instantly see what has been added, modified or deleted.
Support for Migration to SharePoint Online (BPOS)
SSMM fully supports migration scenarios where existing content is migrated to SharePoint Online or any hosted SharePoint environment, part of the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS). Move SharePoint hardware and support into the ‘cloud’ quickly and easily, eliminating the need to support local SharePoint hardware and infrastructure. In addition, SSMM supports ‘cloud-to-cloud’ migrations, so organizations can move content from one hosted provider to another.