Case Study: Europoles achieves seamless SharePoint migration and rapid, granular recovery with AvePoint DocAve

Europoles Boosts its Ability to Migrate, Manage, and Protect Microsoft® SharePoint® Data with DocAve®

Europoles, a leading European manufacturer of masts and structural systems with over 1,300 employees, relied on SharePoint for document collaboration and internal workflows but faced two major challenges: migrating from Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 to SharePoint 2013 (which has no native direct migration path) and improving SharePoint’s limited out‑of‑the‑box backup and item‑level restore capabilities that were time‑consuming and resource intensive.

By implementing AvePoint’s DocAve suite (including Migrator, Backup & Restore, and Content Manager), Europoles migrated 190 GB of content directly to SharePoint 2013 with full fidelity—preserving metadata, version history, permissions, and security—and established automated backup schedules and granular restores that routinely recover individual documents in about 10 minutes. The centralized, intuitive dashboard also simplified moving libraries and sites, improving day‑to‑day administration and delivering faster, more reliable protection and management of SharePoint.

Europoles

Thomas Schmidt

Europoles