Success Highlights
- Reduced total migration time to Microsoft's internal hosted SharePoint
2010 environment by two months
- Migrated 12,000 site collections from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010
- Transferred approximately 200 lists to SharePoint 2010 while maintaining
customizations, metadata, and field values
- Minimized business disruption by scheduling migration jobs to
automatically occur off-hours

Customer Profile
Microsoft Technology Centers (MTCs) provide organizations access to
experts to help envision, design, and demonstrate solutions utilizing
Microsoft and partner technologies to meet their specific business needs.
There are 11 MTC locations throughout the United States, and an additional
12 locations worldwide.

The Challenge

The MTC organization has long utilized SharePoint to provide a central home for its documentation and partner-related information, as well as a portal for team-wide collaboration. After the release of SharePoint 2010, the MTC sought to migrate its content and data from its SharePoint 2007 environment to a Microsoft IT (MSIT) hosted instance of SharePoint 2010. Quickly, the migration team at the MTC knew that they could not migrate the data stored in SharePoint 2007 directly to this environment due to restrictions on custom applications in the hosted service.

Using native Microsoft technology, the migration team would conduct a database upgrade from SharePoint 2007 to a staging SharePoint 2010 environment, and manually upload data from SharePoint 2010 onto the MSIT cloud. However, many customizations and metadata would be lost in the transfer from the SharePoint 2010 staging farm to
MSIT's hosted SharePoint 2010 instance. Recreating metadata and repopulating custom lists from scratch would be extremely time consuming and resource intensive for the migration team, and potentially disrupt business productivity at the MTCs worldwide. In order to quickly migrate to MSIT while maintaining its current metadata and customizations without harming business continuity, MTC began its search for a third-party migration solution. 

The AvePoint Solution after researching several third-party solutions, MTC selected AvePoint's DocAve Migrator for SharePoint tool. In addition to DocAve Migrator's feature set, including full-fidelity content and data migration as
well as flexible job scheduling, the fact that DocAve Migrator enabled MTC to create and reuse migration jobs assured MTC they could confidently reduce the impact on day-to-day business. "Our mission at MTC is to serve organizations seeking to achieve their business goals using Microsoft and partner technologies," said Chuck McCann, Worldwide MTC Alliances Program Director for Microsoft. "AvePoint's DocAve Migrator tool would best help us make the vital move to our internally hosted, cloudbased SharePoint 2010 instance quickly andefficiently, without distracting us from our mission"

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