ShareGate vs. DIY: Easy wins, smart savings, big impact
ShareGate is a true out-of-the-box solution for managing Microsoft 365, SharePoint, and Teams. Migrate, resolve, control, and automate without those labor-intensive Microsoft native tools.
Trusted Microsoft 365 management tool for over 75,000 IT professionals worldwide.
What sets ShareGate apart?
Microsoft offers best practices and some free tools like PowerShell. But using its tools effectively to manage Microsoft 365 requires time, specialized skills, advanced licensing, and continuous oversight. ShareGate simplifies—skip the complexity, dive into action. Spend less time on repetitive tasks, more time winning. Choose results over resource drain.
No coding, just results
Simplify Microsoft 365 management with ShareGate, no manual scripting or complex workflows. Using Microsoft tools like PowerShell is time-consuming and requires frequent script adjustments for Microsoft updates or changes in your environment.
Get going quickly
Use ShareGate to turn Microsoft 365 into the collaborative and secure environment it should be, within minutes of setup. Building solutions using Microsoft tools can take weeks to months, require specialized skills not all IT admins have, and drain your resources.
Hands-free tools
ShareGate cuts daily Teams and SharePoint operational tasks down to minutes. Streamline governance policies, manage permissions centrally, get actionable insights, and auto-collaborate with users to keep things tidy. Using Microsoft tools requires IT intervention and continuous oversight.
Fully automated solution
Get hands-free automation with ShareGate. It’s like having a full-time IT professional, for just $5,995/year. Developing and maintaining complex DIY solutions with Microsoft tools involves advanced licensing and often results in half-automations.
How do ShareGate and Microsoft compare?
| Migration Features* | ShareGate | Microsoft SharePoint Migration Tool (SPMT) |
|---|---|---|
| SharePoint on-prem to Online | ✓ | ✓ |
| SharePoint Tenant to Tenant | ✓ | ✘ |
| Exchange Online Migration | Flat $995 upgrade | Per user licensing |
| Teams & Planner Migration | ✓ | ✘ |
| Governance Features* | ShareGate | Microsoft |
|---|---|---|
| Provisioning | ✓ | Complex custom application build |
| Collaborative Automated Policy Compliance | ✓ | Complex custom application build |
| Administration Features* | ShareGate | Microsoft |
|---|---|---|
| Permissions Management | ✓ | Manual at the object level |
| Centralized reporting | ✓ | ✘ |
| Actionable reporting | ✓ | ✘ |
| Mapping | ✓ | Limited |
Looking for more?
Book a live 1-on-1 demo with a ShareGate expert and you’ll receive:
- Free advice and insights for your specific use case
- A customized walkthrough of ShareGate features
- Follow-up resources personalized to your needs
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I literally click one button and it sends all those people an email or a message in Teams, and I can sit back and watch it unfold in front of me.
Astrid Gibbon
Communications Systems Manager at Oxford Instruments
Super smooth M365 migrations
Smooth, straightforward Microsoft 365 migrations
ShareGate is the go-to solution for SharePoint and Teams migrations to the cloud, on-prem, or tenant to tenant for big projects or ongoing content management.
Automated policies and provisioning
Secure, manage, and optimize your environment
Ensure the right people have access to the right things. Set automated governance policies. Create custom provisioning templates so people can create the workspaces they need with your guardrails in place. Right out of the box.
Automated Governance
Keep your tenant on track
See who has access to what and course-correct, all in one place. Automate external sharing reviews. And get instant visibility into your SharePoint and Teams with centralized reporting.
Fast. Simple. Secure.
(but don’t just take our word for it)