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Accelerating SharePoint with Caching Caching is a technique that stores previously retrieved or computed data for future requests. By serving cached data instead of dynamically generating content, web applications like SharePoint can significantly improve response times and throughput. This section provides an overview of caching capabilities in SharePoint and recommendations for enabling and configuring caching…
Assessing Your SharePoint 2013 Environment Conducting a thorough assessment of your existing SharePoint 2013 environment is a critical first step before planning an upgrade. This involves carefully evaluating key components like business needs, site functionality, feature usage, custom solutions, and performance. Evaluating Business Needs and Requirements Review business workflows, collaboration requirements, content types and storage…
Maintaining Document Integrity During Migration When migrating documents into SharePoint, it is critical to preserve the integrity of those files to ensure no data or metadata is lost in the process. Before beginning a migration, do a complete assessment of the current file formats, metadata requirements, access permissions, and content structure. This analysis will uncover…
What Causes Metadata and Version Loss? When moving or migrating documents in SharePoint, associations between files, metadata, and prior version histories can become broken. This leads to issues finding documents, loss of compliance and records management capacity, and knowledge workers lacking needed context around document origins and changes over time. Most commonly, metadata and version…
What is Version History and Why Does it Matter When Moving Files? Version history refers to the ability within SharePoint to store and track multiple iterations of files as they are edited over time. It creates backups of past document states, stores information on revisions such as timestamps and editors, and allows users to view,…
The Problem: Lost Version History During Migration When moving or migrating files in Office 365, users can unintentionally lose important version history information. This metadata includes details on previous iterations of the file, who made changes and when, and more. Losing this context during a migration can limit visibility into the evolution of content and…
Why Metadata and Version History Matter Metadata and version history are critical to maintaining context and records when moving documents in SharePoint. Metadata refers to data that describes and gives information about other data, such as documents stored in SharePoint. This can include details like document authors, creation dates, custom tags and ratings, taxonomy fields,…