LepideMigrator for Documents Step by Step

A Manager Marketing Operations invite me to review their product, LepideMigrator for Documents.

It is a migration tool for contents, moving from traditional File Servers, Exchange Public Folders and Office 365 Public Folders to SharePoint.

You can check this link to download it.

In this article, I will use SharePoint 2010 as the destination server. First of all, I will do the installation on the server.

The installation is a quite simple process. After that, we can start the program to check what we can do.

It is a typical winform application with main content panel on the center and properties panel on the right. On the left, there are destination and source configurations.

Now we will do a simple migration job.

First thing to do is to set up the destination site. Select "SharePoint Server" and click "Add New Site" on the top toolbar.

Fill out the blanks and click ok button to finish add the site. And now we can see the structure of the site we added in the Destination panel.

Second, we set a source to specify what content will be migrated to the destination site. Since it is a simple test job, I will pick the easiest way - Local File System. I‘ve already build a test content with folders and files in my Local Disk E.

In the Source panel, navigate to "Test Content" folder.

We can simply do an analyze before we do the migration job. Click "Migration Analyzer" to start the analyze.

The report tell us Files or Folders successfully can be uploaded is 9, Files or Folders that need adjustments is 0 and Files or Folders that will fail to upload is 17 for exceeding file size, because I leave the configuration size limit to default 50KB (I suggest the default is 50MB for the SharePoint site default limitation). We can see the reasons from the report grid. The text below does not display full enough, by the way. After modify the size limit and reanalyze, all can be successfully uploaded to my sharepoint site.