Case Study: St. Pölten University achieves seamless access to 2 TB of legacy file-share data and boosts SharePoint adoption with AvePoint DocAve Connector

St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences Drives Microsoft® SharePoint® Adoption and Seamlessly Integrates 2 TB of File Share Data with DocAve®

St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, an Austrian institution with about 2,600 students, deployed SharePoint 2013 to improve collaboration for its 250 employees but faced a major hurdle: 2 TB of legacy data remained on network file shares and could not be migrated easily without disrupting operations or losing a complex permissions structure. The IT team needed secure, remote access to that content from within SharePoint without undertaking a month-long migration.

AvePoint’s DocAve Connector solved the problem by connecting the 2 TB of file-share content directly into SharePoint, mapping existing permissions, and keeping data in place. The integration preserved archives, reduced load on the SQL content database, avoided a disruptive migration project, enabled remote access for users, and helped drive SharePoint adoption across the university.

St. Pölten University

Franz Kern

Manager of IT and Infrastructure