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Public Folders Migration to SharePoint

Public Folders Migration to SharePoint

  • Overview
  • Business Advantages
  • Technical Overview
  • Guides and Resources

DocAve Migrator for Public Folder Migration

Migrate. Quickly consolidate enterprise content from legacy systems or previous Microsoft SharePoint versions into Microsoft SharePoint 2013 and 2010.

DocAve Public Folder Migrator for SharePoint provides an efficient and cost-effective approach to seamlessly migrate from Microsoft Exchange to Microsoft SharePoint 2013 and 2010.

Microsoft Exchange Public Folders have long been a destination for users to share information and served as a central repository to store messages, files, calendars, contacts, and more. More recently, however, organizations have begun to search for reliable ways to migrate business-critical content into SharePoint.

The DocAve Pre-migration Scanner will detect and notify you of any illegal characters, user permissions, user names, user domains, and other legacy elements that must be mapped in order to migrate successfully into SharePoint.

Looking to migrate to Office 365? Check out DocAve Content Manager.

DocAve Migrators and Content Manager form our Migration Solution from previous SharePoint versions and a variety of legacy platforms to SharePoint 2010, 2013, or SharePoint Online. 

All Microsoft, All the Way

As with all AvePoint software, DocAve Public Folder Migrator leverages only fully supported Microsoft methodologies and APIs.

Business Advantages for Public Folder Migration

  • Protect Your Investment in Exchange Public Folders Through Lossless Migration to SharePoint 2013 and 2010

    DocAve Public Folder Migrator automatically moves content from source Exchange folders to their mapped SharePoint lists and libraries. All folder structures, attachments, document properties, and associated metadata are retained with full fidelity, ensuring that each document looks and performs as it did in Exchange. This allows users to easily adopt SharePoint for reliable content sharing and information discovery.

  • Simplified Migration Management Through a Centralized Administration Console

    Job configuration can be easily performed from a single easy-to-use web-based interface that Administrators can use to schedule multiple migration jobs and monitor job progress.

  • Maintain Business Continuity with Intuitive Mapping of Exchange Elements to SharePoint Assets

    Clean up and reorganize Exchange content quickly and efficiently using customizable content and file-size filters, resulting in a clutter-free SharePoint repository, architected to align with business needs. With optimized mapping of Exchange elements to their associated SharePoint artifacts, everything is kept in sync, so knowledge workers can confidently continue their online projects without interruption.

  • Reduce Downtime with Flexible Deployment and Scheduling

    Migrate an entire instance, public folder, or just an individual content item. Granular or bulk content migration and customizable job scheduling allow administrators to plan migration jobs according to business needs and timetables, thereby reducing the impact on functioning production environments.

    To learn more about best practices for deploying and migrating to Office 365, read our whitepaper Office 365 SharePoint Online-Architectural considerations

DocAve Public Folder Migrator Technical Overview

DocAve allows IT administrators to easily streamline the cutover from Exchange Public Folders to SharePoint, while ensuring that business-critical data is not compromised while preserving all of the associated metadata.

DocAve is unique in its ability to offer organizations the option to support both Public Folders and SharePoint as collaboration options during the transition phase.

DocAve Public Folder Migrator extracts data from Public Folders with all of its associated metadata and migrates it to its mapped SharePoint objects.With DocAve, you can easily migrate the following Public Folder elements into SharePoint:

  • Mail Items
  • Contact Items
  • Calendar Items
  • Journal Items
  • Note Items
  • Task Items

Supported Elements and Mappings for Migration

Source Destination
Note Items
  • Root web
  • Subsite
  • Task
  • Calendar
  • Contacts
  • Custom (Matching Type)
  • Discuss Board
  • Share Documents
  • Announcements
Journal Items
  • Root web
  • Subsite
  • Task
  • Calendar
  • Contacts
  • Custom (Matching Type)
  • Discussion Board
  • Share Documents
  • Announcements
Calendar Items
  • Root web
  • Subsite
  • Task
  • Calendar (Matching Type)
  • Contacts
  • Custom
  • Discussion Board
  • Share Documents
  • Announcements
Contact Items
  • Root web
  • Subsite
  • Task
  • Calendar
  • Contacts (Matching Type)
  • Custom
  • Discussion Board
  • Share Documents
  • Announcements
Mail Items
  • Root web
  • Subsite
  • Task
  • Calendar
  • Contacts
  • Custom (Matching Type)
  • Discussion Board (Matching Type)
  • Share Documents (Matching Type)
  • Announcements (Matching Type)
Task Items
  • Root web
  • Subsite
  • Task (Matching Type)
  • Calendar
  • Contacts
  • Custom
  • Discuss Board
  • Share Documents
  • Announcements
Public Folder Data
  • DocAve Storage Manager
  • DocAve Connector

Supported Systems

  • Microsoft SharePoint 2013
  • Microsoft SharePoint 2010
  • Microsoft Exchange 2010
  • Microsoft Exchange 2007
  • Microsoft Exchange 2003
  • Microsoft Exchange 2000
  • Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services v3
  • Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003, Windows SharePoint Services v2

DocAve Public Folder Migrator Resources

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Solution Briefs:

  • Migrating to Microsoft SharePoint 2013 and 2010
    Learn how organizations worldwide are using AvePoint's DocAve Software Platform to accelerate Microsoft SharePoint 2013 and 2010 deployment.
  • Hybrid Deployment Options
    Organizations worldwide are quickly adopting cloud computing in order to stay ahead of a hyper-competitive business landscape. Learn how DocAve can seamlessly manage your on-premises and online instances.

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