Case Study: DLA Phillips Fox saves 75–100 days and streamlines SharePoint content migration with AvePoint DocAve

DLA Phillips Fox Eases Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010 Content Migration With DocAve®

DLA Phillips Fox, a major Australasian law firm and member of the DLA Piper group, needed to migrate a highly customised Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 intranet—about 240 subsites and 1,000+ pages—from a UAT farm to production. Native backup-and-restore couldn’t reliably preserve metadata, security settings and versioning, forcing time-consuming manual rework and threatening the need for extra staff.

The firm deployed AvePoint’s DocAve Content Manager, using its two-URL tree, automated sync and domain/user mapping to move content with full fidelity and restructure sites as needed. The solution preserved metadata and security, enabled near-instant updates across farms, saved an estimated 75–100 days of manual work, avoided hiring an additional employee, and was backed by responsive AvePoint support.

DLA Phillips Fox

Sasank Namburi

Applications Development Manager, DLA Phillips Fox