Vyapin’s DocKIT Migrator is a powerful migration tool that offers extensive features to migrate contents from file shares along with metadata, permissions to either on-premise SharePoint or SharePoint Online in Office 365. The newly released version of DocKIT v7.0 supports SharePoint Online configured with different authentication mechanisms. With this version, you can migrate contents to […]

There are several tools out there to migrate file shares to SharePoint. However, if you are facing difficulties in choosing the right SharePoint migration tool, here are 7 very important tips: 1. Automation is the most important feature that a migration tool must have, especially because of the sheer volume of files and folders present […]

Migrate permissions and handle file redundancies in the target library with the new version! Permission Migration You can now migrate permissions, permission levels and role assignments of the new users and groups and handle existing Users and Groups with ease in this new version. XPlica provides three options to handle existing users & groups and […]

How to use this new content migration feature? Prerequisites The Quick Migrator Agent should run in the SharePoint servers (Source & Target) during the entire duration of the migration task run. A common temporary storage location is required for XPlica application to share this workspace with the source and target server Quick Migrator Agents. Quick […]

Our products install and maintain their respective application files in Program Files or Program Files (x86) folder, unless the default location is changed by the user. Post-installation, when launching the product the first time, the user has the option to specify a drive location for storing the application worker files such as settings, error log, tasks […]

SharePoint Server 2010’s yet another new capability Document Sets facilitate managing documents as an entity based on their metadata (document property). The entity can be categorized based on the need or task which shares a common set of attributes and can be versioned as a whole (instead of individual documents) in SharePoint. The Content Type […]

We have made a significant release of our powerful SharePoint list management solution – SPList Manager for SharePoint 2007 (SPListM) version 1.2. The following are some of the improvisations made to the product solution in this new release: Support to Forms based authentication: SPListM now supports Forms Authentication validating the users against the corresponding SharePoint […]

The much anticipated release of SharePoint 2010 is on the cards. It’s almost official that the final cut would be released by June 2010. The beta version is already out and is certainly creating a buzz among the business community. The latest version that is coming up has flexible deployment options and has kindled our […]

When migrating data from non-SharePoint sources / legacy applications, it is important to design, organize and manage your list items and properties carefully so that there is minimal rework on your lists and properties without having to redesign the whole content framework. We will discuss below some of the common list management issues in SharePoint […]

In our previous post we had discussed in detail many of the SharePoint document migration challenges. Here we will summarize how Vyapin’s Dockit solution addresses these issues. Dockit for SharePoint 2007 imports folders and documents to SharePoint libraries with the following metadata that typically define the source content: Custom properties defined in the external metadata […]

There are several challenges when migrating documents to Microsoft SharePoint. While these challenges can be overcome, they are a real pain if the migration source, content and file systems are not SharePoint friendly.  We will discuss below some of the common ones here. Folders and files exist in several sources – file shares, web-based sources, network […]