Migration from WSS 3 0 to MOSS 2007
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Bitscape being an IT consulting company helps organizations get best return on their investments. Our technical consultants are well versed with all the technicalities within IT infrastructure planning, set up and development.
Bitscape has helped many enterprises and small and medium scale businesses in their business endeavours where we meet the stakeholders and discuss the need and help them see the clear picture and suggest best approach to get the best ROI from their IT investment. We discuss existing IT environment, business objectives and suggest best suited solution.
We would be more than happy to share some standard basic approach and solution we proposed to our clients. E.g. one of our clients was planning to migrate the existing Solution from WSS 3.0 to new SharePoint MOSS 2007 platform where the existing SharePoint environment is having only WSS 3.0. However, client want to have SharePoint based intranet as well as extranet solution that will be on another standard for rich functionality of MOSS environment, which includes Installation and configuration of MOSS 2007, Migration of existing system to new MOSS 2007 platform, Web content migration to publishing web content, Search configuration for enhance search, User Documentation to help out MOSS administrators, User Training, Extranet partner portal implementation. We carried out and performed following functions to achieve the objective,
Branding: Design/configure/implement template pages for home and landing page.
Installation and configuration: Installation and configuration of MOSS 2007 farm
Existing solution Migration: Migration of existing system database using detach/attach db process
Publish Features: Activate publishing features on migrated solution to take advantage
Web Content Migration: Migration of web content to web publishing content via manual and custom developed utility
Workflows: Implementing configurable workflows for document/content review and approval before publishing using in-built approval workflow
Configuration of Service: Configuration for MOSS service like user profile, search to take advantage of office SharePoint product
Content Management: design/implement Page and site customization with custom field support.
Team collaboration: Reuse existing collaboration tools like Blog, Wiki on My Product, My Issue, Events, News, Live chat, Forums from existing system
Extranet Portal: Design and implement extranet portal for external partners and customers.
Search: Configuration of search rule and allow user to search for different content into Solution.
Following existing function would be migrated from existing WSS 3.0 environment to MOSS 2007 during the migration phase
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Topic |
Functions migrated from WSS 3.0 to MOSS 2007 |
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Content Management |
Manage content from any web browser, 24X7 anytime |
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Content Management |
In-browser rich (WYSIWYG) editor for editing any kind of textual content. |
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Content Management |
Edit content in any application (such as MS-Word) without having to move content from server to desktop |
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Content Management |
Can upload any file type and translate many common Office file types: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Open Office files, RTF |
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Content Management |
Live editing - you update the site from the site itself - no specialized tools needed |
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Content Management |
Facilitates collaboration in editing and publishing |
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Content Management |
Content types for common cases: news items, events, links, and documentation |
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Content Management |
Flexible metadata; comes with Core metadata as standard |
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Content Management |
Topics and Topic Map technologies to enable efficient aggregation of content - management of content using a hierarchical topic system |
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Content Management |
Support for Forums, Blogs, and wikis |
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Workflow |
Built in workflow for editorial approval before publication |
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Workflow |
Workflow is completely flexible and configurable through the web |
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Workflow |
Different content types can use same or different workflow processes |
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Workflow |
Content can be edited or moved during workflow process – in other words, approval workflow should be reset, if the document is edited at any point in the workflow. |
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Workflow |
Optional – tie with either integrated Issue Tracker or external Issue tracker that is integrated so that appropriate data can be exposed via the Customer portal |
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Workflow |
Optional integration with the time entry system in order to track time spent on an issue |
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Search |
Built-in fast, flexible search engine |
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Search |
General or specific – by Title, Category, Topic, Author, Date, Keyword/Tag |
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Search |
Search shows latest information; minimal lag after publishing of new content |
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Authentication |
Flexible authentication system supporting multiple roles, access levels and configurable add/update/delete privileges |
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Authentication |
User authentication uses built-in database, LDAP, and relational databases |
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Authentication |
User can be members of groups and groups can be nested within another group |
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Authentication |
Single sign-on - prevents users from having to log on to each area separately. Security is controlled centrally. |
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Authentication |
Optional - Single sign-on integrated with other internal applications, so as to support a single-authorization for all internal tools |
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Accessibility |
User interface will allow for seamless rendering across browser types in heterogeneous environments |
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Intranet |
Support portal type features that will allow adding new sections, hiding existing sections or expanding sections that have been collapsed |
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Intranet |
Support for portlets for Events, News, Blogs, Who's logged in, Time zone, Chat |
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Intranet |
Sections including Organizational updates, Company news, specific sub-site hierarchy based on Organization needs |
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Extranet |
Provide templates that allow creating a new Partner or Customer site with minimal effort, so that Partner or Customer specific content can be published - this should including all of the typical site features including:
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Extranet |
Support for internal authorized user to gain appropriate approval to publish or unpublished Partner or Customer specific extranet |
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Document Management |
Document repository supporting backup and retrieval of files; Access privileges based on site/sub-site access |
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