Case Study: Constellation Energy achieves seamless, zero-downtime SharePoint migration with AvePoint's DocAve SharePoint Migrator

Constellation Energy Leverages DocAve® To Migrate Business-Critical SharePoint® Data

Constellation Energy, a Fortune 500 wholesale power supplier with more than 10,000 employees, faced a major SharePoint challenge: its popular WSSv2 deployment had grown to 1.2 TB across 5,000 sites in a single content database and required a migration to WSSv3 plus a full topology re-architecture. The company needed a granular, schedulable, staged migration that preserved metadata and provided continuous access (zero downtime) while allowing the old and new platforms to coexist during a lengthy rollout.

Using AvePoint’s DocAve SharePoint Migrator, Constellation executed a staged, business-unit-by-business-unit migration over ten months, moving more than 1 TB with zero metadata loss and no platform downtime. The team re-architected the farm (to 10 content databases), improved performance and stability, and reported flawless migrations and strong vendor support; the company has since adopted additional DocAve modules to streamline ongoing administration and governance.

Constellation Energy

John Deermer

Senior SharePoint Engineer, Constellation Energy