Migration from hosted SharePoint 2007 (WSS)

[utopian]

I'm using a hosted SharePoint solution, which the basic SharePoint services (WSS) 2007. We haven't done any customization, and most of the important content is in standard document libraries. We have a small Wiki but that isn't essential to migrate.

I'm not crazy about SharePoint, as I can't host it on my Linux servers, and I can't really get in and customize it. Hosting SharePoint ourselves is prohibitively expensive, as we are a pretty small shop, with about 20 users.

I'm wondering if Alfresco could be used as a SharePoint replacement. My understanding is that it does integrate with MS Office. For example people are used to doing check-in / check-out from within Office 2007. That level of Office integration is essential for my users.

I'm wondering if Alfresco supports custom lists and custom views like SharePoint. For example I have a calendar view which shows only the next two weeks of events. This is a view into a custom list: users can click on any item and get more information about the event.

Finally I'm wondering about migration. It there a tool to import information from my existing SharePoint site into Alfresco? Ideally I could import my site structure and library content. With the document libraries, I would ideally me able to import the full version history of the files. For example, who edited what when, along with all the old versions of files.

How much of this is possible in Alfresco?

[brian_robinson]

Office integration with Alfresco works the same way - except that it's Alfresco on the back end instead of Sharepoint.

3.3 supports data lists.  Custom views are supported as well.  You'd have to figure out how to set them up to do exactly what you've described, but I believe it's doable.

Migration is a little fuzzy for me though - I don't know much about how to get stuff out of Sharepoint.  If there's a way to pull down that content into a local file system, then Alfresco provide many ways to import it (shared drive interface, or FTP for example).  Also, there are tools out there like OpenMigrate that provide great flexibility in how you set up a migration, though it might be overkill here since you don't seem to have a lot of metadata.

[utopian]

Thanks for the info on Outlook & Custom Lists.

On the migration, it is important to keep the revision history. It isn't just the current file, it is the history of the file, and all the old versions. It is good to know that I can load files in via shared drive or FTP. But I'm hoping to find an import method which preserves the history.

I looked at OpenMigrate, somewhat quickly. It doesn't appear to support SharePoint as a "source." It does appear to support SharePoint as a target. At least, there is some config setting for "SharepointTargetFileFolder." But it doesn't appear to support pulling stuff from SharePoint.

[unknown-user]

Hi,

We are also in need of migrating from SharePoint to Alfresco. Were you able to find any tool that does this?

Thanks,
Jerry

[utopian]

I was not able to find a migration tool, still on SharePoint