Microsoft SharePoint Migration Tool vs Vyapin DocKit Migrator

Microsoft has recently released its latest version of SharePoint Migration tool available free of cost to their customers. You can use Microsoft’s SharePoint Migration tool to migrate content (folders and documents) to SharePoint Online along with basic metadata. However, the Microsoft SharePoint migration tool may fall short if you have a complex or metadata intensive […]

How to move SharePoint servers to different domain (new AD) without losing the data integrity with limited time and effort?

Great to have an option to move a SharePoint Server to the different domain (or different farm) instead of recreating new farm / merging multiple Active Directories (AD) and migrating contents from old farm to new one is a common expectation of every user. As this expectation is more common in case of merging of […]

Migrating SharePoint 2013 / 2010 Designer Workflows to SharePoint 2016 / SharePoint Online (Office 365)

There is no direct and easy way to copy / move the SharePoint designer workflows from SharePoint 2013 (and below) to the latest version of SharePoint 2016 On-Premise and SharePoint Online manually using built-in mechanisms, as these types of workflows are deprecated in the latest version of SharePoint. There are two options to handle such […]

How does XPlica help in migrating sites and lists that use deprecated templates in SharePoint 2007 / 2010?

We have discussed about the deprecated / discontinued templates in my previous blog Discontinued Site and List templates in SharePoint 2013 and above . In this article, We will show you how XPlica helps you to migrate the sites / lists that use the deprecated / discontinued templates from the legacy SharePoint servers (2003, 2007 and 2010) […]

Discontinued Site and List templates in SharePoint 2013 and above

Microsoft discontinued quite a few site and list templates available in SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 from SharePoint 2013 version onward. The following Microsoft link contains an overview of the discontinued / modified templates and features in SharePoint 2013 and above. https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Discontinued-features-and-modified-functionality-in-Microsoft-SharePoint-2013-bbbb0815-2538-4f1d-b647-1f7f6d508c93#__toc382936212 In this article, I would like to focus on few of the discontinued […]

Retaining Document IDs across site collections or SharePoint farms

SharePoint Document ID service is useful to maintain static links to documents regardless of where they get moved within the same site collection, or if their name gets changed. In short, with the SharePoint Document ID service activated, you can preserve the Document ID within the site collection. There are a few limitations in SharePoint […]