To migrate from MOSS 2007 to SP 2010 there is a requirement like date of all documents in MOSS 2007 server has to be preserved.

What is the way to implement that?

If any specialized code is code is required for this... pl share link for that code.

Hi,

we, AvePoint, have a very good tool to migrate from MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010 preserving the files metadata.

Unfortunatelly, there is no OOTB solution which will allow you to do that. When migrating to SP2010, you will loose both the timestamps and the "Creator" values because they will be replace by the migration date and the user running the migration.

You will have to write your own custom code, and believe me, it's not as simple as saying it (it wrote a program to migrate from SP2003 to MOSS2007).

If you're looking for free Tools, try Codeplex.

Hi,

We have used the content database upgrade and migration using metalogix for both the approaches the time stamps on the documents are retained.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc303436(v=office.14).aspx 

May be doing a test migrate of one database is good understand what else is involved.

Hi murali,

Pl share the link exact which product you had used for successful migration.

Hi,

Using SharePoint Database attach method retained the document time stamps and Modified property.It advisable to perform a dry run of one database on your test environment and you will know what it looks like

http://technet.microsoft.com/library/cc303436(office.14).aspx

The other tool is Metalogix

http://www.metalogix.com/Products/Migration-Manager-for-SharePoint.aspx

I hope this helps

Hi,

Without any 3rd party tools can we do the same thing? I mean by SharePoint itself can we implement document date preservation? 

thanks

Normal Database attach method from microsoft will migrate the contents with metadata.

We dont need to go for tools for this scenario unless you clear all blockings for test-spcontentdatabase which is the pre db attach upgrade requisites.

Hi,

we, AvePoint, have a very good tool to migrate from MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010 preserving the files metadata.

Unfortunatelly, there is no OOTB solution which will allow you to do that. When migrating to SP2010, you will loose both the timestamps and the "Creator" values because they will be replace by the migration date and the user running the migration.

You will have to write your own custom code, and believe me, it's not as simple as saying it (it wrote a program to migrate from SP2003 to MOSS2007).

If you're looking for free Tools, try Cod

Normal Database attach method from microsoft will migrate the contents with metadata.

We dont need to go for tools for this scenario unless you clear all blockings for test-spcontentdatabase which is the pre db attach upgrade requisites.

are you sure on this?

rgds

Yes i am sure. we have done around 50 - 60 databases with total of 3TB of data. preupgradecheck stsadm would give u all custom changes in your farm which will have impact in your new farm.

and for each database, the test-spcontentdatabase would give some errors which u need to clear.

Doing upgrade using db attach method will preserve all metadata and get upgraded to new farm.

Please check the below links.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc303436(v=office.14).aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh315922(v=office.14).aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263299(v=office.14).aspx

Of course tools as well can help you like metalogix, quest, avepoint, axceler, dshift etc when you purchase.