Sharegate: A Sharepoint Migration Tool for No Brainers

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People usually avoid the idea of content migration when shifting to a new version of SharePoint or when getting on board with it because of the problematic process. If you are also among these people and is thinking about migrate content with SharePoint manually, Sharegate is just what you are looking for. Let’s see if this SharePoint migration tool can really help us or not.

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What is Sharegate?

Sharegate is a software that can help you with SharePoint migration and classification easily with a set of tools. It doesn’t require any server installation and supports Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2003/2008.

What Sharegate has to offer

Sharegate offers a 15 days free trial and an option to purchase the full version. You will see 2 different file inside downloads section, a quick installer and an offline installation. Before you install Sharegate, make sure .Net Framework 4.0 is installed in your PC to complete the installation process quickly. Sharegate also offers some optional downloads as extension, server extension and sandbox server extension.

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The first thing I loved about Sharegate is it doesn’t require any agent for working on servers. You can do your work without installing any software on servers. There is only one limitation with the trial version, it supports copying only 5 items at a time. Sharegate supports 8 versions of SharePoint, SharePoint 2003, SharePoint 2007, Microsoft Offfice SharePoint Server, SharePoint Foundation 2010, Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, Office 365, BPOS and SharePoint 2013.

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If you want to connect to Office 365 or SharePoint online, you have to select the manual authentication mode. You can directly migrate to SharePoint 2010 or 2013 from SharePoint 2003 or SharePoint 2007. People who want to maintain the version history when migrating has to check the “Preserve version history” when creating a new property template.

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There is a map properties available for the destination lists/libraries and source which can help you to map your sources easily. It’s a great feature for consolidating lists and libraries. You can also copy permissions and version history and also create your own template so when you have different sites with the same idea, you can use your custom copy template everytime. I didn’t find any major negative side of this tool and you can try the trial version of Sharegate before purchasing the full version.

Verdict

Sharegate calls itself a no brainer migration tool for SharePoint and I must say, it’s a great tool for SharePoint structure and content migration.

It is possible to overcome Exchange Server Error 528. Know How?

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You made an attempt to access the exchange server and unfortunately end up encountering the exchange server error code 528. So, how do you feel? Well, I am not a journalist and won’t expect a proper answer because you won’t like even image about such situation. But in case you ever face a very similar situation, you would always look to get rid of such terrifying experience. It is very obvious that nobody likes to face such situation. Nobody likes to invite a situation that makes it difficult to access exchange server properly. But incidents do take place and you must be ready to deal with such condition.

Now once you get encountered with Exchange Server Error 528, chances are very high that you may further face another error messages summarized under the following headings:

Event ID: 5000
Source MSExchangeIS
Type: Error
Category: General
Description: Unable to initialize MS Exchange Information Service Store
Error 528”

Facing this sort of error consequently makes it nearly impossible for you or any other individual to access any single data stored in the mailbox. Not only this, in fact if you are not able to access folders located in the database, then you must not be surprised. You are in middle of nowhere because such incidents make you feel like a complete handicapped person as you are almost in the situation to loss your data completely. However, there is always a reason behind every creation made in this world and the same rule applies in Exchange Server error.

Research has shown that the most common reason behind MS Exchange Server Error 528 could be the absence of Edb.log and Edb.chk files from the database.

For those who are not aware about the location of these files, then let me tell you that these files are stored in a particular directory called Exchsrvr\Mdbdata. Facing a fatal error 528 situation makes it impossible to access any single data because the level of corruption is very high. Until you repair EDB files the situation cannot be rectified. And, in case you are wondering about how to repair EDB files, then you need to perform EDB to PST conversion. All that you got to do is take help of EDB recovery tool to repair EDB file and restore EDB file to PST file quickly.

EDB recovery tool makes use of unique techniques for repairing exchange file and export EDB file to PST file instantly. It recover exchange file and convert EDB file to PST file along with different elements like: Inbox, Sent item, Outbox, Deleted items, Calendars, Tasks, Contacts,Notes and self-made folder etc.

Acting as an ideal EDB file converter program it allows you immediately recover EDB mailbox and convert EDB to PST with accurate format of exchange file. The tool is very well embedded with a strong algorithm that play a very important role in the easy conversion of exchange edb file to pst file which later can be accessed with Microsoft outlook email client. With the proper usage of such software it gets lot easier to restore EDB emails with all emails items-To, Cc, Bcc, From, Subject etc.

Article Summary

Exchange Server Error 528 makes it nearly impossible for any other individual to access any single data stored in the mailbox. But with the help of third party EDB to PST conversion tool the complexity to deal with such error can be easily managed. The software repair EDB file and restore EDB file to PST file quickly.

Author’s Bio: Steve is a technical content writer and with his writing provided different tips to deal with EDB file corruption and ways to get rid of it successfully. In this article, he has emphasized on exchange server error 528 and provided solution to fix the error instantly.

Troubleshoot: NAP capable clients are evaluated as Non NAP capable

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I had real hard time in troubleshooting the problem where NAP capable clients were evaluated as Non NAP capable by the NPS server. 802.1x authentication was perfectly successful but there were no information about the client’s health. It seemed NPS server was working as a plain RADIUS server.

There are few points which must be checked for a successful implementation of Microsoft NAP. Check all of these:

  1. NAP agent must be running: To check use “netsh nap client show state” in command prompt. If not running, go to services and start the service and put it to automatic.
  2. Enforcement client 79623 is enabled and initialized on the client: This can also be checked with the previous command.
  3. Quarantine checks are enabled in PEAP properties on the client: See the authentication tab in network properties.
  4. 802.1X with PEAP is configured (rather than 802.1X with EAP) on the client: See the authentication tab in network properties.
  5. NAP agent is running before 802.1x authentication. Put the dependency on NAP agent with wired auto config.
  6. Override network policy authentication settings is enabled in connection request policy on the server.

Hope it will help you in troubleshooting your NAP setup. Questions and suggestions are welcomed. Enjoy :)

Sources: Microsoft, Greg Lindsay