| In the wake of a new decade, Microsoft has | | | | easy. The availability of successful and reliable |
| added yet heavy artillery to its already pretty | | | | migration can make this business decision easy. |
| unrivaled arsenal - SharePoint 2010. It is the brand | | | | However, there are certain important factors that |
| new addition to its class of SharePoint Servers. | | | | hinder you from taking any such action. |
| SharePoint 2003 and SharePoint 2007 are a few | | | | SharePoint Migration Tools are provided by many |
| of the most infamous versions of this server. | | | | companies for free or a fixed price but these |
| SharePoint helps organizations in building, | | | | tools and techniques are only good as long as a |
| configuring and maintaining their online services | | | | standard migration is involved. The quantity of |
| seamlessly and hassle free. | | | | data, surprisingly, is not of much importance here |
| If you are a SharePoint professional, the added | | | | because any SharePoint migration tool should be |
| features in Microsoft SharePoint 2010 will be of a | | | | able to migrate any amount of data from one |
| huge advantage to you considering the heavily | | | | version of the server to the other. After all, what |
| publicized features all around the web and on | | | | else are these tools for? However, the |
| Microsoft's website. However, if you are already | | | | complexity begins with the availability of |
| running some services on a previous SharePoint | | | | SharePoint customizations, also commonly known |
| installation and your company decides to switch | | | | as web parts. |
| over to SharePoint 2010 then you are suddenly | | | | Apart from being a very noticeable feature of |
| left wondering about all the previous data including | | | | SharePoint, these webparts actually prohibit you |
| documents, websites and organizational | | | | from performing a standard migration and result in |
| information. | | | | an unsuccessful migration process. An |
| The question actually stems from the importance | | | | unsuccessful or failed data migration can cause |
| of business critical data required for any | | | | loss of data and eventually business. If you are |
| organization's daily functions. Even the slightest | | | | working for a client or as a consultant, this can |
| thought of losing this data can be a catastrophe. | | | | mean a bad reputation and termination of |
| Migration is a solution that can save you a lot of | | | | contract. |
| time and energy and can make your life relatively | | | | |