Quest® Migration Manager for SharePoint
Version 1.2.2
April 28, 2008
Welcome to Quest Migration Manager for SharePoint
Resolved Issues and Enhancements
Migration Manager for SharePoint is a content migration solution that allows you to migrate SharePoint sites, lists and document libraries including security permissions from Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 or SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
Try Me Mode - this version of Migration Manager for SharePoint allows users to install the product and use it free for three days for evaluation purposes. The mode allows creating one test migration job.
Authorship Retention – This Migration Manager option (disabled by default) allows you to preserve information about unresolved creators and editors of documents and list items in the extended metadata of the target lists and document libraries. The names of the columns in the document libraries to store the author/editor names are user-configurable (can be modified/localized using the Migrators.xml file).
Mapping List Templates to the Target Feature ID – When migrating standard list definitions which have been modified (e.g. new fields, etc. have been used) but which share the same type IDs, the customized source lists are created with the target list definition linked the feature ID on the target.
Views Migration - Migration Manager preserves public list views and their settings, including standard, calendar and datasheet views. Private views are not migrated.
Adjustable Document Versions Migration - By default Migration Manager copies all versions of documents it migrates to SharePoint 2007 document libraries. You can set a limit on the number of versions to be migrated for your documents by the VersionNumber parameter (0=all) in the Migrators.xml file located in C:\Program Files\Quest Software\Migration Manager for SharePoint\SpringConfigs. You will need to restart the Migration Manager services for the changes to take effect.
Support for Japanese SharePoint Sites - This version of Migration Manager allows users to migrate content from and to Japanese SharePoint sites on servers running Japanese editions of SharePoint and Windows Server.
Portal Site Migration – now Migration Manager migrates portal site areas to a MOSS portal site, preserving the site structure and content. This feature includes the following capabilities:
Site Template Mapping - Migration Manager comes with a default mapping that maps standard WSS 2.0 site templates to standard WSS 3.0 site template. The site template mapping is an XML file and can be easily adjusted to support custom site templates (e.g. corporate-branded templates) in your migration projects.
List Template Mapping - When migrating lists, Migration Manager creates the target lists using the list template with the same ID as the source list. If the required list template is not available on the target, the list is skipped and an error is logged. The default settings can be overridden with the list mapping XML file, allowing you to specify custom mapping rules for lists of a particular site definition.
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Feature |
Enhancement |
Change Request |
| General | ||
| Permissions and groups are migrated properly when migrating a site with permissions as a site collection. | CR#50719 | |
| When migrating a site with inherited permissions without the parent site, the group members are migrated properly. | CR#00000 | |
| Now Migration Manager for SharePoint migrates the source site groups whose names contain special characters correctly, removing these characters from the site group name on the target. | CR#48965 | |
| Quest Migration Manager for SharePoint supports migration of document libraries containing files up to 1GB. If a file in a document library in Share Point exceeds 1GB, the success of the migration job is critically dependant on the system resources. If the system resources are insufficient, Migration Manager skips such files writing a message to the log and continues the migration job. | CR#00000 | |
| UI and migration agent performance has been improved in this version of Migration Manager. | CR#00000 | |
| When migrating surveys, the Show Users and Allow Multiple Replies properties are migrated. | CR#00000 | |
| If the site being migrated contains a list based on the Custom List in DataSheet View, the job will be completed properly. | CR#00000 | |
| The issue with Migration Manager creating an additional document version when adding metadata to the document being migrated to a document library where versioning is enabled has been resolved. | CR#31337 | |
| When you migrate several document versions, all the versions will contain metadata. | CR#31338 | |
| When Migration Manager migrates a list or library with unique permissions, the target list will be assigned equivalent permissions. | CR#00000 | |
| SharePoint document libraries having orphan documents are migrated properly. | CR#00000 |
The following is a list of issues known to exist at the time of Quest Migration Manager for SharePoint 1.2.2 release.
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Feature |
Known Issue |
Change Request |
|
General |
Migration Manager for SharePoint requires that the Site Administrator configuration database is on a SQL server running Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (including Express Edition). The product may not work as expected if Site Administrator uses SQL Server 2000 to store the configuration database. | CR#00000 |
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If two SharePoint servers use the same port, and one of the servers is not available, Site Administrator may display content database of the unavailable server. |
CR#29872 | |
| A meeting workspace linked to an event list in a parent web site is not migrated properly if migrated separately from the parent site. | CR#00000 | |
| For the Help to be displayed correctly, make sure the cursor is in the right pane. | CR#00000 | |
| The only web parts migrated are List View and Image web parts. The other web parts are skipped during the migration. | CR#00000 | |
| If the job is pending, its status might not be displayed correctly. | CR#00000 | |
| If new lists were added to a site during the site migration, these lists are not migrated to the target. | CR#00000 | |
| If new web parts were created during the site migration, these web parts are not migrated to the target. | CR#00000 | |
| Migration Manager is not able to detect whether the URL for site collection migration is already in use. If it is, Migration Manager will add the newly migrated content to the existing site collection. | CR#00000 | |
| When an SPS 2003 portal site is migrated to MOSS, the target site navigation contains sites for all the source areas, including those hidden from the portal site navigation in the source site. | CR#00000 | |
| Migration of portal specific content (e.g. portal listings, portal specific web parts, etc.) is not supported in this product version. | CR#00000 | |
| Japanese SharePoint Support | When migrating sites with the permission migration option enabled, Migration Manager will use English names for the standard permission levels (e.g. Reader, Designer etc) instead of Japanese names. To use standard Japanese permission levels, replace the WSS3Levels.xml file in the Migration Manager root directory with the WSS3Levels.xml file from the %installdir%\JP directory, and restart the Migration Manager services. | CR#00000 |
| When migrating Contact type lists, the City and State fields might switch places. To avoid the issue, replace the Migrators.xml file in the %installdir%\SpringConfigs directory with the Migrators.xml file from the %installdir%\JP directory, and restart the Migration Manager services. | CR#00000 |
This section contains information about installing and operating this product in non-English configurations, such as those needed by customers outside of North America. This section does not replace the materials about supported platforms and configurations found elsewhere in the product documentation.
This release is Unicode-enabled and supports any character set. It supports simultaneous operation with multilingual data. This release is targeted to support operations in the following regions: North America, Western Europe and Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, Far-East Asia, Japan.
Before installing Quest Migration Manager for SharePoint Version 1.2.2, ensure your system meets the following minimum hardware and software requirements:
| Platform | x86 or x64 (for 64-bit support please see the Installation Instructions in the Getting Started section below). |
| Operating System | Windows Server 2003 SP1 or higher (Recommended) |
| Additional Software | Quest Site Administrator for SharePoint 1.6 or later
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 - AND/OR - Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 |
Note: Migration Manager for SharePoint requires that the Site Administrator configuration database is on a SQL server running Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (including Express Edition).
The installation will fail if the database is hosted on SQL Server 2000.
Migration Manager supports the following servers running either of the following:
Note: The prescan.exe utility must be run on the source SharePoint 2003 server before proceeding with content migration using Migration Manager. The prescan tool can be downloaded at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e8a00b1f-6f45-42cd-8e56-e62c20feb2f1&DisplayLang=en.
The Migration Manager for SharePoint CD contains the following:
To install Migration Manager for SharePoint, run the setup.
Note: for 64-bit SharePoint 2007 servers, running on x64 Windows you need to perform the following to install the tool successfully:
Run the Migration Manager MSI package from the command line with property VSS_CHECK_SKIP=1: (msiexec /i qmm4sp.{current version}.msi VSS_CHECK_SKIP=1).
Follow the Quest Migration Manager for SharePoint 1.2.2 Setup wizard steps:
Note: for 64-bit SharePoint 2007 servers, running on x64 Windows you need to
perform the following to run the tool successfully:
Copy a registry key (including all its subkeys)
located at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Quest Software\SharePoint Manager
to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Quest Software\SharePoint Manager.
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