Migration to office 2007

[Jake]

Hi all,

I am currently doing some testing for a site migration to office 2007 from
office 2000. I am just looking for some feed back on issues and processing
times that other people have had with their migration, or even links to some
helpful websites or forums out there (not the office 2007 white pages).

I am currently converting over 70,000 documents and it has so far been
converting for 12 days straight. I would love some conversion times from
anyone else that is performing a large migration.

Thanks

 

[Gordon]

Hi all,

I am currently doing some testing for a site migration to office 2007 from
office 2000. I am just looking for some feed back on issues and processing
times that other people have had with their migration, or even links to
some
helpful websites or forums out there (not the office 2007 white pages).

I am currently converting over 70,000 documents and it has so far been
converting for 12 days straight. I would love some conversion times from
anyone else that is performing a large migration.

Thanks

Why do you need to convert documents? Office 2007 will open documents
created in other versions of office without any "conversion"....

 

[Jake]

Why do you need to convert documents? Office 2007 will open documents
created in other versions of office without any "conversion"....

I don’t necessarily HAVE TO do a conversion it is just the most practical
way. As one site alone has over 200,000 documents some ranging back to word
5.1. Which means office 2007 can’t convert them…..apparently. If I do a full
conversion of all documents then this issue won’t arise again when they bring
an office out in 10 years that doesn’t support office 2007 documents.

Also relying on my end users to convert the documents is an unreal
expectation. If I convert them I have backups ready if any data is lost, so
on and so forth. I don’t want to explain my self I am just looking for some
people to share their information on the whole process, as surly someone else
out there has performed a large migration.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Jake,

The Office Migration Planning Manager Tools (OMPM) are what I'm assuming you're using?
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/d0373697-31f5-4fc5-8dd1-1b9d7f35842f1033.mspx

Office 97 and higher versioned files are generally what converts through those tools.

How are you doing the conversion (i.e. dedicated machine, or across a network, etc)? Over a network can impact the process
performance.

I'm assuming you did some shorter testing of a cross sample of some of your documents before tossing all your files into the
converter funnel <g>. http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/OfficeDeployment.OMPMv1

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I don't necessarily HAVE TO do a conversion it is just the most practical
way. As one site alone has over 200,000 documents some ranging back to word
5.1. Which means office 2007 can't convert them...apparently. If I do a full
conversion of all documents then this issue won't arise again when they bring
an office out in 10 years that doesn't support office 2007 documents.

Also relying on my end users to convert the documents is an unreal
expectation. If I convert them I have backups ready if any data is lost, so
on and so forth. I don't want to explain my self I am just looking for some
people to share their information on the whole process, as surly someone else
out there has performed a large migration. >>
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[ReplaceMagic]

Can you tell me what application you use to do your migration.
I found software on http:\\www.replacemagic.com but would like to see
what are other options.

Thanks,
Mario