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Due to its success using AvePoint’s DocAve Backup and
Restore for SharePoint data protection, VU decided to implement DocAve
Migrator for its SharePoint migration. Part of AvePoint’s DocAve
Software Platform for SharePoint infrastructure management, DocAve
Migrator provides an efficient, cost-effective solution for migrating
business-critical content to the latest releases of SharePoint and would
allow VU to migrate its data from SharePoint 2007 directly to
SharePoint 2013. “While using DocAve as our SharePoint content backup
solution, our experience with the AvePoint support team has always been
good,” Baroto said. “The fact that AvePoint has a presence in Melbourne
also gave assurance that someone local could help us resolve any issues
we encountered throughout the migration.”
With DocAve, VU was able to carry out its migration
according to specific organisational needs, which involved a two-phased
approach. Administrators were able to first perform a full migration of
all content to SharePoint 2013 and then ask content owners to verify
that the data in the new environment was correct. Following content
owner approval, administrators used DocAve to perform an incremental
migration to move any new content that was created since the full
migration took place. Throughout the process, all content was migrated
with full fidelity – including security settings, attributes, and
properties. “By carrying out a phased migration, we could ensure the
quality of our verification process,” Baroto said. “DocAve worked
perfectly with our plan, since users had sufficient time to confirm that
content had been migrated correctly before rolling over to the new
environment.”
From the beginning stages of analysis to the final
user acceptance testing, VU was able to migrate its entire deployment to
its new SharePoint 2013 farm within three months. Throughout the
migration process, users were able to access the source environment
without interruption, resulting in no loss of productivity. “DocAve
helped us ensure that users were comfortable with the whole process and
encountered minimal-to-no disruption throughout our migration,” Baroto
said. “We were able to complete the project within our planned timeframe
and roll users over from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2013 in one
weekend.”
Now on SharePoint 2013, VU is not only able to
provide a better experience for its users, but it is able to take
advantage of the platform’s new features across the organisation. VU
continues to rely on DocAve to protect all of its SharePoint 2013
content with platform-level backups and easy, granular data recovery
down to the item level. “We love the simplified, sharing-based model for
site permissions management in SharePoint 2013,” O’Leary said. “Content
owners now have a much easier way to share content and spend less time
sorting out permission issues.”