SharePoint 2013 Migration from MOSS 2007

Recently I had a task to Migrate a SharePoint portal from MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2013, and It is Interesting and Challenging because there is a huge difference between these two environments such as Hardware requirement, software components requirement. There is no direct upgrade is possible.

Those who are using MOSS 2007 needs to migrate to SharePoint 2013 rather than SharePoint 2010, which is now outdated. The following are the challenges

1. There is no upgrade tools or features, which ships with SharePoint 2013 to upgrade from MOSS 2007.
2. However upgrading is possible from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013 and easy too.
3. So there are 2 ways to migrate data

Solution 1: 

Setup a SharePoint 2010 Environment to attach the content database of MOSS 2007 website and upgrade the database to SharePoint 2010.

Now backup the SharePoint 2010 website content database and restore/attach to the SharePoint 2013 site.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/nitinsha/archive/2010/07/27/migration-from-sharepoint-2007-to-sharepoint-2010.aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-in/library/cc263299(en-us).aspx
 http://www.sharepointdiary.com/2011/09/migrate-from-moss-2007-to-sharepoint-2010.html
http://www.sharepointdiary.com/2013/09/migrate-from-sharepoint-2010-to-2013-step-by-step.html

Solution 2: 

Export data from List and Libraries site by site using custom code or STS Command and then import it into SharePoint 2013 site and this approach is time consuming and complex. Also require more manual process.

Solution 3: 

The best option is using Third party migration tools such as "Migration Suit for SharePoint" from Dell. Dell, as a Microsoft's migration partner, have a good tool to migrate MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2013 with more accuracy. The tool have more features such as Pre-migration Analysis and scheduled jobs to manage the migration tasks.

The below is the screenshot of the Tool.

The below is a small Demo of the migration process.

Also it is worth to try other Third party migration tools, make sure to use trial versions before you buy.

http://en.share-gate.com/

http://www.tzunami.com/

http://info.axceler.com/Blog/bid/51255/Understand-Your-SharePoint-Customizations-Before-Migratinghttp://www.quest.com/migration-manager-for-sharepoint/http://www.avepoint.com/sharepoint-migration-tools/http://www.idera.com/productssolutions/sharepoint

http://www.topsharepoint.com/content-migration-tools-for-sharepoint

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