Sharepoint Migration Tool For Sharepoint And One Drive

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SharePoint, a multipurpose business and organizational software was first released on March 28th 2001 by the Morosoft Corporation. It has steadily gone through several updates with each version striving to build a better performing multi-purpose software adapted for a variety of enterprise solutions.

SharePoint Services facilitates secure online data management by allowing user login, access, share and collaboration with other users in a safe, secure and mobile environment. SharePoint as a software system has main features spanning:

Collaboration:

Enhances inter/multi-departmental exchanges which are the bedrock for innovation and transformation. Without collaboration, a meaningful and lasting enterprise is not achievable.

Content Management:

The maximum use of the value of enterprise content & knowledge helps empower businesses and organizations to resolve business challenges while mapping strategic planning.

Document Management:

Documents and content are diverse and sometimes difficult to handle ...
... and store in the mainstream format they are generated. All documents are resource adaptable for improved planning and services delivery. Perfected and streamlined internal processes facilitate enterprise-wide collaboration while well thought out strategy is a result of comprehensive thought and planning.

Business Intelligence:

Insight and analytics are crucial in fiercely competitive times. That's why informative reports help in tactical business decision-making availing business analysis. Business intelligence is fundamental to sustained growth and productivity.

Main SharePoint Migration Tools for SharePoint OneDrive

1. Migration Manager

Migration Manager is a SharePoint tool businesses and organizations adopt to help move data or documents from SharePoint Server hosted in the business or organization datacenters to SharePoint Online, which is a Microsoft 365-hosted service. Migration Manager Tool is designed to handle large-scale file moves and sharing across several business systems and machines.

Essential Migration Manager Tasks, Responsibilities and Features Include:

• Clarify document libraries and folders for migration destinations
• Place destination URL (SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams); with automatic scanning.
• Multiply to an increased number of tasks to migration.
• Differentiate, sort and search tasks.

Important to Note: Migration Manager, moves file-share content from SharePoint Server while shifting to the Microsoft 365 online services. Migration Manager handles and moves files but does not move SharePoint Server content. Migration Manager Tool majorly supports English-based language sites for now and has not yet evolved into a multi-lingual site support system.

2. SharePoint Migration Tool

SharePoint Migration Tool supports moving SharePoint Server 2016 content to Microsoft 365. It supports pasting long URLs (rather than truncating them). Besides, ease of reporting issues with an "on-click reporting" function makes SharePoint Migration Tool equally unique and adaptive.
SharePoint Migration Tool Users can migrate content to OneDrive storage with a user email address. SharePoint Migration Tool is now a "general availability" and supports migrating SharePoint Server 2010 and SharePoint Server 2013 content and SharePoint Server 2016 content.

Essential SharePoint Migration Tool Features, Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Migrations of small sets of files and large scale enterprise migrations
• Permits bringing business or organization information to the cloud with advanced collaboration, business intelligence, data management and security solutions in Microsoft 365.
• Migration of content to SharePoint and OneDrive from SharePoint Server 2016, 2013 and 2010, SharePoint Foundation 2013 and 2010, Network and Local File Shares.

Important to note: SharePoint Migration Tool allows selection of two sources from which to migrate business or organizational data: on-premises SharePoint Server 2010 or 2013 site, or local file share or network path.

3. Microsoft Fast-track Migration Tool

Fast-track is another migration tool that helps migrate business, organization or personal files and folders from both file shares, Google Drive and Box.

4. Microsoft Mover Migration Tool

With the breakthroughs in cloud technology, unlike other migration tools, Mover is a cloud to cloud migration.

5. PowerShell cmdlets Migration Tool

PowerShell is a replication of the SharePoint Migration Tool (SPMT) migration engine. PowerShell help move files from SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013 on-premises document libraries and list items, and file shares to Microsoft 365.

Summary

SharePoint is a new generation collaboration, business intelligence, document and content sharing system that has brought a radical transformation in business communication.

It is now almost impossible to imagine any modern business operating without the robust inputs of SharePoint Services. And planning successful data migration is a technical imperative that is simplified with SharePoint Migration Assessment Tool (SMAT) in easy, simplified command-line executable tasks.

It scans the content of business and organization SharePoint Server 2013 farm to identify issues with data readied for migration to SharePoint in Microsoft 365. The results report points you to articles to help you fix issues discovered. SMAT tool runs in the background without impacting business or organization productivity.

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