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2. Select either Migrate to Site or Migrate to Site Collection
3. Specify the job name and description.
4. Type the source site URL in the Source URL eld or click Select... to search for the source site by a part of its URL.
Generating the initial list of sites may be time-consuming. To disable site enumeration, select the Skip initial site enumeration option. The initial site enumeration will be disabled when selecting the target site and in subsequent creation of migration jobs.
Disabling the initial site enumeration affects list migration. In case the Skip initial site enumeration option is disabled for site migration, the initial list enumeration will be also disabled.
Note: If the desired URL is not in the list make sure the required Share-Point farm has been discovered and its front-end is listed as ShareShare-Point Server. Click the add link to add new SharePoint farm. Refer to the Adding SharePoint Farms section for more information.
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5. You can exclude some objects from migration. In the Exclusions area, click Add, and then select the desired site using the search option in the Exclude Sites and Lists window. The child objects of the selected site are displayed in the Lists on site section. By default, all objects are unchecked, i.e. included into migration. To exclude an object from migration, select it.
Note: If you exclude a site from migration, all its subsites, document libraries and lists will not be migrated either.
The objects excluded from migration are shown in the Exclusions ta-ble. If you want to include an object into migration again, remove the corresponding entry from the table.
6. To see the amount of the content to be migrated and an estimation of the migration time, click the Info button. Refer to the Pre-Migration Analysis section for more information.
7. In the Target URL eld, specify the following:
a) For the Migrate to Site option, specify the target URL for the mi-grated site or click Select..., and then select the target parent site using URL search in the Select Target Site window.
Generating the initial list of sites may be time-consuming. To disable site enumeration, select the Skip initial site enumeration option.
The initial site enumeration will be disabled in subsequent creation of migration jobs.
Disabling the initial site enumeration affects list migration. In case the Skip initial site enumeration option is disabled for site migration, the initial list enumeration will be also disabled.
Note: If the Skip initial site enumeration option was enabled ear-lier, the initial enumeration of target sites returns no results.
Note: If the desired URL is not in the list, make sure:
ˆ the required SharePoint farm has been discovered and its front-end is listed as SharePoint Server. Click the add link to add new
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Point farm. Refer to the Adding SharePoint Farms section for more information.
ˆ a SharePoint farm is rediscovered after a new web application has been added.
The target URL will be formed automatically by appending the source site URL name to the selected site URL and displayed as Target URL.
Migration Manager will create a new subsite with the speci ed target URL.
To change the target site URL name during migration, delete the site URL name and specify the required name.
b) For the Migrate to Site Collection option, specify the target URL for the migrated site or click Select..., and then select the target Share-Point web application, managed path and new site collection URL name in the Select Target Site Collection window.
Note: If the desired URL is not in the list make sure:
ˆ the required SharePoint farm has been discovered and its front-end is listed as SharePoint Server. Click the add link to add new Share-Point farm. Refer to the Adding ShareShare-Point Farms section for more information.
ˆ the SharePoint farm has been rediscovered after a new web appli-cation has been added.
Migration Manager will create a new site collection with the speci ed target URL.
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8. Leave the Include Permissions option checked to migrate security permissions along with content or clear the check box to have tar-get permissions inherited from the parent site. For more information, please refer to SharePoint 2007 to 2010 Permission Migration section.
9. Check Start Now to start the migration job immediately after the job is created or leave it unchecked to start it manually at a convenient time.
10. By default, user interface is not upgraded during migration. Select the required Site visual mode for the target site:
ˆ Preserve SharePoint 2007 look and feel - User Interface will not be upgraded. All sites use the interface from SharePoint 2007.
ˆ Upgrade to SharePoint 2010 user experience - User Interface will be upgraded. All sites use SharePoint 2010 interface.
11. By default, migration jobs are allowed to run always. If you want to allow the job to run during only speci c hours during the week (e.g.
nights and weekends), you can use the Migration Hours option to select when the job will be allowed to run. For more information, please refer to the Con guring Migration Hours section.
12. By default, all site content is included into migration. If you want to exclude old and large documents, les of forbidden types or excessive versions from migration, you can use the Filter content option.
13. Click Create.
Note: If the target farm does not have Migration Manager Ex-tension Web Service installed, the warning message may appear.
Refer to the Migration Extensions for SharePoint 2010 for more
detailed information.
After the migration job is created, you are redirected to the Job Details page. While on this page, you can manage the job, track its progress and health.
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Creating Job for List Migration
To create a migration job, perform the following steps:
1. Select the Migrate SharePoint 2007 link on the start page.
2. Select Migrate Lists to Site.
3. Specify the job name and description.
4. Click Add in the Source lists area. Select the desired site using site URL search from the Select lists for migration dialog, and then the lists you want to migrate in the Lists on site section.
Note: If the Skip initial site enumeration option is enabled in site migration, the initial list enumeration returns no results.
Note: By default, the lists are not ordered. Click Lists on site to sort the lists by title.
Note: If the desired URL is not in the list, make sure the required SharePoint farm has been discovered and its front-end is listed as Share-Point Server. Click the add link to add new ShareShare-Point farm. Refer to the Adding SharePoint Farms section for more information.
The lists selected for migration are displayed in the Source Lists table.
If you want to remove the selected list from migration, remove the corresponding entry from the table.
5. To see the amount of the content to be migrated and an estimation of the migration time, click the Info button. Refer to the Pre-Migration Analysis section for more information.
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6. In the Target Site URL eld, specify the target URL of the site you want to migrate the lists to or click Select, and then select the target parent site using URL search in the Select Target Site window.
Generating the initial list of sites may be time-consuming. To disable site enumeration, select the Skip initial site enumeration option.
The initial site enumeration will be disabled in subsequent creation of migration jobs.
Note: If the Skip initial site enumeration option was enabled ear-lier, the initial enumeration of target sites returns no results.
Note: If the desired URL is not in the list, make sure the required SharePoint farm has been discovered and its front-end is listed as Share-Point Server. Click the add link to add new ShareShare-Point farm. Refer to the Adding SharePoint Farms section for more information.
Migration Manager will create new lists in the speci ed target site.
Note: The Include Permissions option is disabled for lists migra-tion. For more information, please refer to SharePoint 2007 to 2010 Permission Migration section.
7. Check Start Now to start the migration job immediately after the job is created or leave it unchecked to start it manually at a convenient time.
8. By default, migration jobs are allowed to run always. If you want to allow the job to run during only speci c hours during the week (e.g.
nights and weekends), you can use the Migration Hours option to select when the job will be allowed to run. For more information, please refer to the Con guring Migration Hours section.
9. By default, all site content is included into migration. If you want to exclude old and large documents, les of forbidden types or excessive versions from migration, you can use the Filter content option.
10. Click Create.
Note: If Migration Manager Extension Web Service is not installed on the target farm, the warning message may appear. Refer to the Migration Extensions for SharePoint 2010 section for more detailed information.
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After the migration job is created, you are redirected to the Job Details page. While on this page, you can manage the job, track its progress and health.
Migration Job Details
After SharePoint 2007-2010 migration job is created, you are redirected to the Job Details page.
While on this page, you can view the job overview, manage the job and track its progress and health. The page contains the following tabs:
1. General - provides you the following information for each job:
ˆ Name - the job name.
ˆ Description - the job description.
ˆ Source URL - the path to the source site/site collection (is not displayed for list migration jobs).
ˆ Target URL - the path to the target site/site collection (is not displayed for list migration jobs).
ˆ Include Permissions - displays whether migration of permissions for the job is enabled.
ˆ Running - displays whether initial migration or post-migration sync of the job is running.
ˆ Issues - the number of issues which occurred during migration.
ˆ Status - the current job state. When migrating objects, the num-ber of migrated objects out of the total objects numnum-ber is displayed.
ˆ Created - the time when the job was started.
ˆ Completed - the time when initial migration was completed.
ˆ Last Updated - the time when the job was last modi ed.
When Initial migration has completed, the Status eld is set to Com-pleted and completion time is set to ComCom-pleted.
2. Migration Pairs - is displayed only for List migration jobs. It contains pairs of lists/document libraries included in the job. To view the state report for an individual object, click View... in the State eld.
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3. Advanced - displays the advanced job properties.
Managing Migration Jobs Managing a Job
You can perform a number of actions on a migration job using the Manage menu on the job details page.
The following actions are available for SharePoint 2003-2007/2010 migration job:
ˆ Start
ˆ Stop (Pause)
ˆ View/change the job schedule ˆ Delete
Starting Migration Job
If the Start Now option was not selected during job creation, you can start the job at a later time.
To start a pending migration job:
1. Locate the job using the Pending job view and click on the job name to open the job details page.
2. Select Start from the Manage menu.
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Stopping Migration Job
You can pause a migration job temporarily to reduce the load on the system.
To pause a running migration job:
1. Locate the job using the Running job view and click on the job name to open the job details page.
2. Select Stop from the Manage menu.
Viewing/Changing Job Schedule
To view/change the allowed migration hours for SharePoint 2007 to 2010 migration job:
1. Locate the job using one of the job views and click the job name to open the job details page.
2. Select Schedule... from the Manage menu, and then modify the al-lowed migration hours in the Set schedule window.
For more detailed information refer to the Con guring Migration Hours sec-tion.
Deleting Migration Job
After migration has completed and you made sure that all the content has been migrated, you can delete the migration job.
To delete a migration job
1. Locate the job using one of the job views and click the job name to open the job details page.
2. Select Delete from the Manage menu.
Managing Multiple Jobs
Migration Manager allows users to select multiple migration jobs to start, stop and delete them in a single click.
To manage multiple jobs, perform the following:
1. Locate the jobs using one of the job views, and then check the boxes next to the required jobs names.
2. Click the Delete/Start/Stop button.
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Monitoring Migration Jobs
Migration Manager for SharePoint provides the following reports allowing you to monitor Sharepoint 2007-2010 jobs, track the migration progress and ensure that migration is successful:
State Report
The most direct way to track migration progress is to compare the source and target locations side by side. This is what Migration Manager allows to do for a migration job with its State Report. The report displays the following live statistics for source and target locations side by side:
ˆ the number of subsites ˆ the number of lists
ˆ the number of document libraries ˆ the number of documents
ˆ the number of document versions ˆ the number of list items
ˆ the number of attachments ˆ the total size of documents ˆ the size of the largest document
ˆ the number of documents by type ( le extension)
When exclusions have been con gured for the migration job, these sites and lists are excluded from the report as well.
The Remaining time represents the current estimation of the time required to complete the migration job. It is based on the migration speed (Change Rate) for the current job.
To view the report, select State from the Monitor menu. The report is displayed.
Each time you open the State report or refresh the page, the counters are requested from the source and target SharePoint. The request process may take few minutes.
Warning: It is not recommended to refresh the report very often dur-ing the migration process as it uses the service recourses that perform migration and can harm them. Click Refresh when you open the page to initiate the counting process, wait few minutes and then click Refresh again to display the counters.
Note: The number of objects may not match for source and target sites in certain cases even when Migration Manager reports that the migration job is completed. The discrepancy typically comes from default lists, libraries
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and documents that are provisioned automatically for a SharePoint site. For instance, there is a difference in numbers when migrating a subsite to a new site collection. The site collection comes with a few pre-de ned galleries (list and site templates, web parts) that are counted for the target site but have no counterparts in the source site.
Issue Report
The issue report displays the job errors for post-migration analysis and trou-bleshooting.
To view the Issue report, do one of the following:
ˆ Select Issues from the Monitor menu on the page displaying job de-tails.
ˆ Click the link next to the Issues in the Job Details page
ˆ Click the link in the Issues column on the page listing the jobs.
The issue report displays the summary of migration job issues.
By default, the report displays only rst 20 errors. To adjust the scope, change the Show First lter. Use the Filter issues by URL lter if you want to view issues for a particular site or list.
You can open all errors in Excel or save them in the .csv le. To do that, use the View all in Excel link.
To view the detailed information pertaining to a speci c issue, click the Show more... link.
Note: The Could not connect to the extension service warning message occurs for every migration job if the Migration Manager Extension Web Ser-vice was not installed. Refer to thefollowing section for more detailed infor-mation.
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Migration Jobs Views
Migration Manager provides a number of job views based on the job state so that you can easily locate migration jobs you need.
In the Migrate SharePoint 2007 to 2010 module, the following views are available:
ˆ All - displays all SharePoint 2007 to 2010 migration jobs.
ˆ Running - displays all migration jobs that are currently in progress.
Initial Migration - displays all migration jobs that are currently in the initial migration state.
Post-migration Sync - displays the jobs that are currently per-forming post-migration synchronization.
Waiting for Schedule - displays running jobs waiting for the scheduled time.
ˆ Pending - displays all migration jobs in a stopped state.
Pending Start - displays the jobs for which migration has not been started.
Pending to Resume Migration - displays the stopped jobs that have not completed initial migration.
Pending to Resume Sync - displays the jobs that were stopped during post-migration synchronization.
ˆ Completed - displays the jobs that have been completed.
Completed Successfully - displays the jobs that have been com-pleted successfully.
Completed with Issues - displays the jobs that have been com-pleted with errors.
ˆ With Issues - displays all migration jobs that have any kind of migra-tion errors.
When you open a view, the list of jobs in the selected state is displayed.
The following information for each job is displayed:
ˆ Name - the job name.
ˆ Description - the job description.
ˆ Progress - the percentage of the job progress.
ˆ Issues - the number of issues which occurred during migration.
ˆ Last updated - the time when the job was last modi ed.
While on this page, you can select multiple migrtion jobs to start, delete or stop them.
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Migration Job Lifecycle
SharePoint 2007 to 2010 migration job progresses through a number of states during its lifecycle. This section describes the possible states of mi-gration jobs, transitions between them and how you can control the state of a job.
You can create a migration job with or without the Run Now option selected.
In the rst case it will immediately proceed with the initial content migration.
In the second case, it will stay inactive in the Stopped state. You can start the job then at a convenient time. A running migration job can be stopped at any time as well. To start or stop a migration job, use the Start or Stop command in the Manage menu on the job details page.
After the initial migration is done, the job enters Post-Migration Sync. In
After the initial migration is done, the job enters Post-Migration Sync. In