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Consider Site Columns and Content Types when migrating

Wednesday, May 09, 2012 - Benjamin Niaulin

One thing we learned during our many migrations from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010 is not to repeat our mistakes. What do I mean by that? Well, SharePoint 2007 was new to many when it arrived and so was the concept of “Metadata”. I will give some options to consider when migrating b...

Copy Page Layouts and Publishing Pages

Friday, April 13, 2012 - Christian Mérat

Great news! Sharegate now allows you to manage your SharePoint Publishing Infrastructure and Enterprise Wikis. How? Sharegate will migrate Publishing Page layouts you’ve created in a site collection to another farm, web application or site collection and associate it to the content type of yo...

SharePoint Bulk Metadata Editor 101

Monday, March 26, 2012 - Nathalie Jard

Let’s use the Bulk Metadata Editor! 1. Choose the site where your list or library is 2. Choose your list or library: 3. Select the documents you want to bulk edit and hit the bulk edit button 4. Sharegate wants you to create a Property Template to tell what to do for each ...

SharePoint List Items Migration 101

Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - Nathalie Jard

Let's migrate SharePoint List Items to another server! 1. Select the site from which you want to copy items ** A good trick is to just go to our site with the browser and just copy paste it here** Then select the list you wish to copy items from: 2. Now Sharegate wants to know...

SharePoint Documents Migration 101

Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - Simon De Baene

Let's migrate SharePoint documents to a new location! 1. First we need to tell Sharegate where we want to copy from. So let’s type in the the site URL or select it from the drop-down menu. ** A good trick is to just go to our site with the browser and just copy paste it here** 2....

File system to SharePoint Migration 101

Thursday, March 15, 2012 - Simon De Baene

Let's copy local files to SharePoint! 1. Let us choose where we want to send the files. Let’s select our SharePoint site from the drop down menu, if it’s not there no problem we’ll type it in. **Psst, a good trick is to just go to our site with the browser and just c...

SharePoint Migration - Remap multiple SharePoint columns to a single column (many-to-one)

Monday, February 27, 2012 - Nathalie Jard

Today, I want to present a feature that was released with Sharegate 2.9. A unique and powerful feature that allows you to merge multiple SharePoint columns together without losing the metadata. Let me show you what I mean. 1) Basic scenario – Automatic mappings with identical columns List A ...

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...

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...

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...

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Consider Site Columns and Content Types when migrating

Copy Page Layouts and Publishing Pages

SharePoint Bulk Metadata Editor 101

SharePoint List Items Migration 101

SharePoint Documents Migration 101

File system to SharePoint Migration 101

SharePoint Migration - Remap multiple SharePoint columns to a single column (many-to-one)

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

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

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

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