Formulating a Migration Strategy

Migration from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010 for small environments is relatively straightforward and can be performed with minimal risk. For organizations with a complex or large SharePoint 2007 environment, however, migration to SharePoint 2010 can be a daunting task. Fortunately, the migration tools built into SharePoint 2010 enable a gradual migration approach, in which groups of sites are migrated slowly over time, allowing for reduced risk of failure or downtime and enabling administrators to test site functionality before finalizing individual site migrations.

The most difficult part of a migration subsequently becomes the validation portion, in which an assessment of existing SharePoint 2007 site ...

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