Tips for better content migration

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A. Manual Migration: This is a primitive way. It is time consuming, tedious and demands a lot of effort for completion. Adoption of this process may lead to loosing of metadata details like Created by, created date, Modified by, Modified date, Version history of the content etc.

B. Automated Migration: This is usually carried out through a tool or a migration framework. A tool symbolizes the maturity of a framework. This automated migration would save your valuable time spent on migration. You can spend the saved time to define a better Information Architecture, Taxonomy, site hierarchy in the target system.

4. Ensure your complete migration: Understand the tool, which you choose for the automated migration. Have a clarity of how your contents from your existing legacy source system is going to reside/migrate in the target system. Keep an eye on the setbacks and limitations that occur while migrating certain content. Try to identify the desired mitigation work around along with the tool vendor by investigating scenarios handled in past.