One of the more stressful tasks in life is moving everything you own from one place to another. I have often wished there was a button I could press and everything could be magically moved to exactly the right place in my new home so I could immediately find it. I am reminded of the stress of this type of situation whenever I hear a story like that of Riley Marsden, Head of IT at Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council (MBC). He and his team were given a task of migrating over 5 million documents from one system to another.

Barnsley MBC serves a region in South Yorkshire, UK. Over the past eight years it has faced a budget reduction of approximately 40%. They are constantly evaluating ways to introduce more efficiency into their processes which, in some cases, means adopting new technology in place of legacy systems.

They made the decision to implement Microsoft SharePoint in favour of their existing document management system. They felt that SharePoint offered a multi-tool solution for their needs. It would not only provide a platform for efficient content management, but its functionally-rich environment would serve as an intranet system that promotes collaboration and business application development.

To implement SharePoint there would be some hurdles to clear. The most immediate: the migration of ten years' worth of documents - approximately 5 million - within a hard deadline of 8 months, the time when the license for the legacy system would expire.

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