Case Study: Victoria University achieves twice-as-fast SharePoint 2013 migration with AvePoint's DocAve

Victoria University Migrates from Microsoft® SharePoint® 2007 to SharePoint 2013 Twice as Fast with DocAve®

Victoria University (Melbourne), which supports 45,000 students and 2,000 staff, needed to upgrade its primary collaboration platform from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2013 while preserving metadata and avoiding disruption. The migration involved 130 GB across 100 site collections and, using native tools, would have required an intermediate move to SharePoint 2010—adding time and complexity.

Using AvePoint’s DocAve Migrator with DocAve Backup & Restore, VU completed a phased full-and-incremental migration directly to SharePoint 2013 in three months—twice as fast by eliminating the 2010 step—while users continued working in the source environment. All content, security settings and properties were migrated with full fidelity, content owners verified data before cutover, the final roll‑out occurred over a single weekend, and ongoing platform-level backups with item-level recovery protect the new environment.

Victoria University

Allan Baroto

SharePoint Analyst