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My team has been working hard on adding support for SharePoint 2010 to Migration Manager recently. Version 2.2 back in May enabled direct transition to SharePoint 2010 from SharePoint Portal Server 2003/WSS 2.0. Work is under way to add granular content migration from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010 to the tool. This new functionality is coming later this year in Migration Manager for SharePoint 3.0. And today I'd like to share an early preview of the upcoming SharePoint 2007-2010 migration...

Quest Migration Manager for SharePoint 2.2 is now generally available to customers. Download your trial version at: http://www.quest.com/Migration-Manager-for-SharePoint/ New features in 2.2 include: Direct Upgrade from SharePoint 2003 to SharePoint 2010 - Migration Manager 2.2 enables direct migration and consolidation of SharePoint 2003 sites, lists and document libraries to a new SharePoint 2010 server farm. The migration process preserves settings, versions, metadata, security permissions of...

[ UPDATE April 15: Site Administrator for SharePoint 4.0 is now generally available to customers. Download the free trial at http://www.quest.com/site-administrator-for-sharepoint/ ] I just made a quick video overview of the updated Information Portal that will ship with the upcoming Site Administrator for SharePoint 4.0 release. New features include streamlined product installation, support for SharePoint 2010, built-in security trimmed access to Information Portal for the site collection administrators...

The gradual upgrade option as we knew it is gone in SharePoint 2010. Good riddance! As Joel Oleson explains in Is Gradual Upgrade in SharePoint 2010 Really Dead? How is Upgrade Better? visual upgrade is the new gradual upgrade. Visual upgrade gives you full control over the switch to the v4 UI for your sites and saves you from trouble of running two versions side by side. Okay, this is great when you can complete the database upgrade part over a weekend. If all goes well (you tested it several times...

Looking forward to SharePoint 2010? Wondering how long it will take to upgrade your 600 GB-worth MOSS farm? How about 50'000 site collections? Well, the truth is no one can predict it for you. Even if you ask Sean Livingston, the Program Manager for SharePoint upgrade at Microsoft, his response will most likely vary between "I don't know" to "it depends". The upgrade performance depends on the structure of your SharePoint databases and the hardware that powers your farm...

It is important that SharePoint 2010 is not allowed – even for a few months - to redefine and therefore limit the scope of Enterprise Social Computing. SharePoint 2010 is a significant improvement on Microsoft Office SharePoint Sever 2007 (MOSS) in terms of the out-of-the-box social networking functionality it provides. For example, its default My Site is much more appealing - and it comes with new or improved ‘Web 2.0’ features in areas such as its Noteboard and its pervasive Tagging...

 

 

 

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