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Take the Challenge Out of Migrating Data to SharePoint

Wed, 13 May 2009 12:00:00 MST

Length: 0:09:32 - The rapid acceptance of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) has introduced a challenge for those companies anxious to implement the product's many features: how to get existing business data currently stored both in previous versions of SharePoint and other systems migrated into MOSS 2007 quickly, easily, and without sacrificing metadata and security.Microsoft has yet to provide a single, streamlined answer to the migration question and instead focuses on basic upgrade scenarios while also sharing the .NET SharePoint object model that can be used to leverage content migration API's via custom code.In this podcast, SharePoint expert Wendy Henry talks about the content migration solutions that ship with SharePoint and their shortcomings.Luckily, Wendy says, SharePoint's popularity in the market has birthed over 2,250 Microsoft Partners committed to producing beneficial third-party add-on's and education tools for this mission-critical collaboration software. Learn why she suggests that you consider purchasing a migration utility from a third party to- import data from disparate repositories- re-organize content during a migration- and manipulate the values being placed into SharePointThe key qualities to look for in a migration utility, Wendy says, are- flexibility- fidelity- supportabilityLearn how, with the right migration tools, such as the suite of Migration Managers for SharePoint offered by Metalogix, you can start taking advantage of your SharePoint investment sooner rather than later.

How to Select the Right Search Solution for Your Business

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:00:00 MST

In the enterprise, Microsoft has been the preeminent supplier of business software, and just about all companies rely heavily on its personal productivity products as well as its growing portfolio of business applications. While the vendor has been able to accurately gauge many market trends, the company was a step slow recognizing the importance of enterprise search. As a result, customers have often struggled to find needed information stored in applications, such as SharePoint, which has become a staple in many organizations. To address that limitation, Microsoft publicly announced in 2007 that Enterprise Search was one of its strategic initiatives. The company's goal is to develop or acquire the capabilities needed to serve business needs from the low-end of the market with simple requirements to the high-end with advanced requirements in terms of scalability and customizations. The company has been trying to develop a unified search strategy, which means rationalizing its disparate search portfolio. That process is still unfolding, so the company now has three products capable of meeting various search needs.

Keep Your Email Flowing

probichaux@windowsitpro.com (Paul Robichaux) — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:00:00 MST

Join Exchange MVP Paul Robichaux and AppAssure Software to learn how you can leverage virtualization to create business continuity for Microsoft Exchange.In this 30-minute podcast, Paul talks about common Exchange recovery challenges and how virtualization, both of your infrastructure and of your Exchange services, can help meet those challenges. You may face one or more of the challenges Paul talks about:- The last Exchange recovery took over 8 hours due to corruption and email was down for the entire company- In our last outage we lost 6 hours of email data, which cost our company thousands of dollars- We don't have a disaster recovery plan because it is too complicated and expensivePaul talks about existing solutions to these challenges: replication over a WAN and Exchange clustering. But each of these solutions, he says, have their niche applications and their problems. The problems, he notes, can be summed up in two words: expensive and complex.In this podcast, Paul talks about a solution that uses leading edge technology to mitigate these challenges: continuous application virtualization. Continuous application virtualization creates a stateful virtual machine - a copy of the application server that is an always-ready, mirror image of your Exchange environment.Download the podcast to learn how continuous application virtualization can work for you.

Backup Lifecycle Management for Remote Offices

david@windowsitpro.com (David Chernicoff) — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:00:00 MST

Managing the information lifecycle has become a critical piece of the IT environment. What is often overlooked is that each component of the lifecycle can have its own set of processes. In this podcast, we will look at the process of backup lifecycle management. In this environment you will prioritize your backed up data, aging it out of the regular backup storage cycle and migrating it to a less expensive storage medium. We will discuss the efficiencies of applying backup lifecycle management to an effective remote offsite backup solution.Listen to this podcast, get special pricing on remote data backup services!

Optimum Backup for Virtualized Servers

david@windowsitpro.com (David Chernicoff) — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:00:00 MST

If you ask IT professionals what their hot topics are in IT right now, you can be sure that the subject of virtualization comes up. Whether it is application virtualization or virtualization for server consolidation, the ability to deliver virtualized services is a key one for IT departments today and for those planning their future growth. Virtualization simply makes technical and economic sense when looked at in terms of improving the efficiencies of your operations.