SharePoint migration features
ShareGate Desktop helps you successfully plan your project, move your content and report on your SharePoint migration.
Features to plan your migration
Know what's in your SharePoint or file share, view a list of all potential migration errors, and estimate the effort required for your migration.
Features for migrating your content
Accomplish a smooth SharePoint migration from File Shares, SharePoint, Google Drive, or Office 365.
- Site collections
- Content types
- Site collection settings
- Sites
- Site navigation
- Quick launch
- Subsites
- List settings
- Lists & libraries
- Site columns
- Documents
- List items
- Document sets
- Pages
- Metadata
- Self lookup
- Web parts
- Record libraries
- Special calendar occurrences
- Version history
- Views
- Folders
- Users
- Groups
- Permissions
- Permission levels
- Custom permissions
- Document security
- Users in the user information list
- User alerts
- Out of the box workflows
- SharePoint designer workflows
- Nintex workflows & forms
- Customized forms & views
- InfoPath forms
- User alerts
- Activate required features
Reorganize and migrate
Full environment migration
Execute your entire enterprise SharePoint environment with a single drag and drop movement.
Promote sites to site collections
Facilitate your governance by promoting a site to a site collection in just one click.
Granular migration
Lists, libraries or just documents—pick and choose which elements you want to migrate to your new location.
Merge existing sites
Merge sites with similar uses into one without losing data.
Migrate site collections
Connect to your central administration and migrate all of your site collections at once.
Change URLs and names
Update site and list URLs or names to better reflect usage.
Migrate sites and subsites
Granularly migrate SharePoint sites and subsites to another location.
Change site templates
Modify your site templates
and apply them to your new environments.
Data Migration
Fast migration speed
ShareGate Desktop is the fastest way to migrate to SharePoint.
Flatten folder hierarchy
Remove your folder hierarchy during the copy.
Extract Office & PDF document properties
Extract any property from Office or PDF documents and assign it as metadata.
Incremental migration
Migrate only newly added items to the ones already at your destination site.
Replace illegal characters
Avoid potential migration errors by easily replacing illegal characters during your SharePoint move.
Convert folders into document sets
Turn your folders into
document sets.
Remap existing content
Remap users, groups, content types, site templates, permission levels and list columns.
Limit version history
Set a limit on how far back your migration should go into your list or document version history.
Correct links
Automatically update all your links to reflect your new SharePoint structure.
Filter content by date range
Target the content you want to migrate by applying a date range filter.
Preserve all information throughout the SharePoint migration process
- Created by & modified by
- Created & modified date
- SharePoint permissions
- Web parts
- Lookup values
- Approval status
- File system permissions
- Version history
- List attachments
Metadata editing
Bulk edit SharePoint metadata
Clean up or fill out missing metadata using the bulk metadata editor. Import and export metadata with Excel.
Enrich metadata through Excel
Enrich your content metadata with Excel, empowering your content owners to take part in the migration.
Map folder names to metadata
Simply assign your folder names as your document metadata when moving them using our SharePoint migration tool.
PowerShell
Script
For advanced users, all migration actions can be scripted using ShareGate Desktop's PowerShell commands.
Schedule
Script your migration with PowerShell and schedule it with Windows Task Scheduler. (Or use ShareGate Desktop's built-in Schedule button to get everything set up in a few clicks.)
Automate tests
Automate your migration using PowerShell scripts and test it before your final production run.
Reporting features
Use ShareGate Desktop's reports to confirm your migration went according to plan, and gain insight on what needs to be fixed.
Migrate or upgrade to any version of SharePoint from these platforms
SharePoint 2003
SharePoint 2007
SharePoint 2010
SharePoint 2013
SharePoint 2016
SharePoint 2019
SharePoint Online
Office 365
File shares
OneDrive for Business
Google Drive
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