Simon De Baene

Weekly tip #7 - Fallback value for unresolved users when retaining created/modified properties during a SharePoint migration

Thursday, February 02, 2012 - Simon De Baene

Introduction This weekly tip refers to an advanced feature in Sharegate. Actually, my goal is to make it clear for all users. I will show you how Sharegate manages unresolved users (users that no longer exist) when migrating files, folders and items to SharePoint or between SharePoint sites. Cont...

Simon De Baene

Weekly tip #6 - Replace unsupported characters when migrating files and folders to SharePoint (ex: & {} " / ? < >)

Thursday, February 02, 2012 - Simon De Baene

Introduction I've tried to post a weekly tip in January, but I was too busy visiting Asia. I'm sorry. I'm back now. This week, I'll show how it's possible to automatically get rid of the characters that are unsupported by SharePoint while migrating your files and folders. It refers to a feature t...

Simon De Baene

Sharegate 2.8 - File system and SharePoint Custom Permissions are now preserved when migrating files, folders and items

Friday, December 09, 2011 - Simon De Baene

Sharegate 2.8 is now available for download. Sharegate now offers the ability to preserve the permissions when copying files, folders and items. WHAT'S NEW IN THIS RELEASE? Preserve custom permissions on files, folders and items It's now possible to preserve the custom permissions while migrat...

Simon De Baene

Weekly tip #5 - Set default metadata values used if source values are missing during a SharePoint migration

Tuesday, December 06, 2011 - Simon De Baene

Introduction I've decided to post a second weekly tip today. Since I've missed two weeks, I felt bad and I wanted to catch up. This second tip shows how to specify default metadata used when a source value is missing. This feature was introduced in Sharegate 2.7 and I want to make sure you all know...

Simon De Baene

Weekly tip #4 - Preserve Office document properties during File Shares Migration to SharePoint

Tuesday, December 06, 2011 - Simon De Baene

Introduction Again, I’m late to post my weekly tip. My team and I are just too busy building the simplest migration product. This week, I’ll show you how to preserve Office document properties when moving your files to SharePoint. Case This weekly tip is dedicated to those who are mig...

Simon De Baene

Weekly tip #3 - Convert content types while migrating SharePoint documents and folders

Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - Simon De Baene

Introduction Sorry, I'm a little bit late for this third weekly tip. We just released Sharegate 2.7 and we now fully support converting content types while migrating files, items and folders. I will show you how in this article. Case This week, I will show you how to convert folder and do...

Simon De Baene

Sharegate 2.7 - Remap content types and silent mode migration

Monday, November 07, 2011 - Simon De Baene

Today, we are happy to announce that Sharegate 2.7 was successfully released. A release day is always an exciting moment but this one is even better since we are releasing a feature that many users requested over the past weeks. I hope you'll enjoy it! WHAT'S NEW IN THIS RELEASE? Rema...

Simon De Baene

Weekly Tip #2 - Remap metadata fields when migrating SharePoint documents

Thursday, November 03, 2011 - Simon De Baene

Introduction Last week, I've posted about converting a Lookup column to a Managed Metadata column while migrating from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010. In the course of this last post, I quickly talked about the property mapper, but didn't really explain it in detail. This week, I want to mak...

Simon De Baene

Weekly Tip #1 - Convert Standard Lookup Values to Managed Metadata Terms

Monday, October 24, 2011 - Simon De Baene

Introduction This article is one of many that will be posted every week. It presents different scenarios supported by Sharegate. For this first article, I will show you how to convert Lookup values to Managed Metadata Terms while copying your content from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 20...

Guylaine Brisebois

SPC11 Contest Winner

Wednesday, October 19, 2011 - Guylaine Brisebois

We are proud to announce the winner for the SharePoint Conference 2011 contest. It was a great success. Thanks to all the participants!The winner is Christopher Givens (Architecting Connected Systems).

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