What is Content Migration?

Content migration offers a simple and flexible solution to migrate content among Windows SharePoint upgrade service sites. With the help of this, it is easy to transfer the content allied to a windows SharePoint upgrade service site in combination with the security, versioning, roles, metadata and workflow.

On importing the data into the destined site, the packaged data will be excerpted and translated. It is also possible to save the imported package into a file server before transferring it into another server.

Intents:

The main objective of this model is to work with a wide range of data from a site. It is also easy to select the degree of data to combine the transferred content and for a complete migration or just a small change. Below cited are some of the common scenarios, where content migration plays a vital role:

It is a handy method, when a person wishes to print content from a development web server to a staging web server and from the staging web server to a production web server.

It allows the end user to export any content from one web site and import it to another site outside the original server manually.

It enables the third-party content collaboration or management to produce metadata into the printed Extensible Markup Language (XML) form and use the import ability for SharePoint upgrade.

It helps, while choosing elements from a VSS (volume shadow copy service) for importing data into Windows SharePoint upgrade service site.

In simple words, with the help of content migration, it is easy to transmit the right content from a correct destination at a right time to a right location. Generally, this kind of data migration work is done by web developers.

Different Ways to Migrate Content

Below discussed are different ways, by which you can easily migrate any content:  

Stsadm.exe: Using this, you can import and export operation to transfer data. However, it is possible to transfer the content to a certain site only. In addition, there is no option to retain Globally Unique Identifier (GUID), which is indispensable in some cases.

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP): With this, you can use the ImportWeb and ExportWeb option to migrate content from a remote web server.