SharePoint Content Migration
Data and files keep on filing up and businesses often need a platform on which they could securely store their data and files. One great document and storage platform that has been utilized by business enterprises since 2001 is SharePoint. SharePoint is a popular document management system, and many clients are really enjoying the services and benefits provided by SharePoint. Moreover, many other business organizations and enterprises are migrating their data to SharePoint from other platforms to enjoy the five basic applications provided by SharePoint. These five basic applications include the intranet and social network usage, document and content management, software for collaboration, personal cloud and custom web application.
SharePoint is not a static platform. Throughout the years since its introduction, SharePoint has already evolved various versions. Hence, clients sometimes must migrate from one version of SharePoint to another version of SharePoint. Moreover, other organizations sometimes migrate their content from their old platforms to SharePoint, and this migration process is often fraught with risks. For this reason, there is often a need for sharepoint migration solution like that of Tzunami Deployer to ensure that the migration process would be seamless, smooth, and secure. The advantages of Tzunami Deployer as a migration tool include the following:
· Tzunami Deployer for SharePoint is a standalone application that could enable clients to rapidly move their content from one platform to SharePoint. It allows for rapid migration and responds to all SharePoint migration requirements. This rapid migration is critical to the streamlining of business-critical processes.
· Tzunami Deployer provides easy to use graphic user interface (GUI). The GUI provided by Deployer is very easy to use; however, though it looks simple, it is very powerful. It has familiar Explorer-like views, wizards for complex processes, and drag-and-drop migrations.
· Deployer provides property and value mappings that enable users to easily manage the migration of metadata without losing vital information.
· It also manages the security setting of content. It allows users to migrate, modify, or retain the security settings of the content.
· Tzunami Deployer handles all types of items and data. These items include contacts, tasks, documents, folders, sites, lists, and site collections.
· Tzunami Deployer allows users to retain the structure of their data or to remodel those structures into different structures.
· It also allows the migration of site templates, and it takes advantage of list templates to accommodate the feel, design, and look of the new version of SharePoint.
· It migrates metadata whether these metadata are customized or not. Since the migration of metadata is a more complex task than migration of documents, the Deployer allows the retention of business-critical information.
· It also allows for security migration. The Deployer enables the users to retain the users' as well as the groups' permissions.
· It has a warning system that alerts users about weak restrictions and the proper way to handle these weak restrictions. The Deployer also allows for the configuration of weak restrictions either as maximum-sized file upload or as blocked extension.
· Lastly, it also provides a rule engine to enable users to have perfect control of the behavior of the migration process.
· Lastly, Deployer provides control on how the data would be displayed.













