Migrate SharePoint 2007 content between farms effortlessly
I love it when tools work exactly right. This was so simple to do once I had the tool installed correctly I just had to blog about it.
I was faced with the requirement of migrating SOME but not all of the lists and document libraries from one SharePoint 2007 farm to another SharePoint 2007 farm and I had to preserve ALL of the security settings and user created alerts. However, there were certain things which had to be left behind. So I turned to AvePoint and a trial version of the DocAve 5.0 Administration Suite’s Content Manager. This tool was brilliantly simple to configure and use to instantly move content between the farms.
Notes:
- I was migrating content inside of the same AD domain. There is a domain and user mapper utility (seen near the top of the screen in the screenshot) but I was not required to use it
- I had to call support twice to work out an issue where my chosen service account didn’t have the right credentials on the required servers, but after the IT department straightened out my security I was able to do the rest myself. Credit goes to the AvePoint support team and Mr. Dae and Ms. Chan for their excellent off-hours help.
- The content migration service account needed to be a farm admin on both farms and a local admin on the web servers and DB servers. Once this was set correctly, I received no errors and my content is in place EXACTLY how I wanted it.