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Content Management Content Organization DocAve Content Manager for SharePoint by AvePoint
 

DocAve Content Manager for SharePoint by AvePoint Hot

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Developer AvePoint
Supports MOSS 2007 • WSS v3 • SPS 2003 • WSS v2
Price, US $ 1,095.00
Licensing Per WFE
Free Trial Yes
Website http://www.avepoint.com

DocAve Content Manager allows seamless migration of SharePoint content from one location to another, within the same or multiple SharePoint farms. It provides customers with the ability to deftly move and replicate all documents, sites, and sub sites. Administrators and authorized users can restructure the content and topology of the SharePoint environment easily and accurately from a single web-based interface.

DocAve Content Manager offers “Point-n-Click” item, site, and sub site level content management while preserving all metadata, including version histories and securities.

Features Include:

  • A user-friendly, two URL tree system accessible via the browser-based DocAve GUI
  • Copy live contents to different locations, servers, and farms within the SharePoint environment
  • Restructure content across multiple SharePoint environment/content databases to optimize production
  • Deploy contents from development or testing (stage) environments to the production environment.

 

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Average user rating from: 2 user(s)

 
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copy and move functions fail

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Migrated all our wss 2 sites to wss 3, mostly successful using the DocAve tools.

However, the search functions broke on existing wss3 sites. When I made a copy of a current sites, all workflows were broken,

how hard is it to copy a site?????

Tech support blamed it on SharePoint Designer. I admit the consultant who created the site put some lists outside of the list folder, and this part was immedietly broken by CM that put the lists back in the lists folder. But the workflows were all corrupted and had to be reset with designer.

Product Reviews

Pros works with default SharePoint sites
Cons cannot handle SharePoint Designer sites.
Version Reviewed 5.6.0
Rating:
 
 2.0
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Reviewed by Patrick Webb
March 31, 2011
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This module can destroy your entire farm

10 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Our team was working on a large scale site reorganization to put more than 150 site collections into 9.

During our testing, there were many bugs and we have to talk to AvePoint to fix them with hotfix packages.

Four days before our first phase, by lucky, we found out all site collections touched by this module can not create any sub sites with templates using publushing features, like Site Directory.

When we want to turn on publishing feature, an error message with error value showed and Publishing Provision error is registered in the event view.

We talked to AvePoint and they can reproduce this error and it already happened sometime ago with one of their hotfix. When we asked them about their QA process with hotfix, they admitted that they only tested the hotfix against reported bugs, not comprehensively.

We have been using DocAve since last version for WSS 2 for three years and our confidence with the entire product dropped to zero due to their QA process and we have to do the QA for them for some very basic problems.

On the other hand, we have no idea whether the backup/restore module has the same issue or any others that they did not find out. So we decided not to use DocAve to do our site reorganization and later to drop them from our 4 server farms.

We will look for a product for our backup and restore needs, but we will not consider DocAve no matter how good other user say. We simply have done a lot for them and we can not continue this cycle and not knowing there may be a bomb sitting inside our farm.

Product Reviews

Pros It can demote site collections into sub sites
Cons it will disable the publishing feature of your site collections and you do not know of it.
Version Reviewed 1.0
Rating:
 
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Reviewed by cobrachen
April 29, 2009
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