Case Study: River East Transcona School Division achieves remote file‑share access and rapid management of 1,200 SharePoint sites with AvePoint DocAve

River East Transcona School Division Accesses File Share Content Through SharePoint And Efficiently Manages 1,200 Sites With DocAve®

River East Transcona School Division, the second-largest division in Winnipeg with 42 schools serving about 16,500 students and roughly 18,000 end‑users, needed a way to manage 1,200 teacher and school sites in SharePoint while also giving staff remote access to legacy file‑share content. Native SharePoint couldn’t connect to network file shares and site administration tasks (permissions, restructuring, deployments) were time‑consuming if done individually.

By deploying AvePoint’s DocAve modules—File Share Connector, Administrator, Content Manager and Deployment Manager—the division exposed more than 600 GB of file‑share content through SharePoint without migration, applied permission sets to 1,200 sites in about an hour (vs. three days), restructured 800+ sites in a week (saving months), and deployed master pages/custom solutions to 800 sites in days instead of weeks, all while preserving metadata, security and version history.

River East Transcona School Division

Karen Strubhar

SharePoint Administrator, River East Transcona School Division