Defining the scope of a Microsoft Office migration can be almost as challenging as the migration itself.  Questions to ask include the following:

• How many Microsoft Office files exist on the network?
• Do I know where all of the files are stored?
• Should I migrate all of the Office files or just a subset?
• If only a subset, how do I decide which files should be migrated?

These are just some of the questions that must be answered to help make a rollout of a new version of Microsoft Office as smooth and painless as possible. DiscoverIT is designed to answer these and many other questions about the file landscape.

Some of the main features of DiscoverIT include:

• Multi-threading – discover, or copy, multiple file shares from the same machine simultaneously
• Ability to define  task templates to help create multiple discovery or copy tasks using the same set of settings
• Results are output to an XML file which can be imported into ReportIT Desktop for detailed reporting or used to register files with OfficeConverter
• Optionally discover or ignore files and folders flagged as “hidden”
• Specify folders to ignore during the file discovery process
• Copy files, including files with a long file path, to a lab environment for an Office migration or to a new network location to consolidate servers
• Schedule discovery and copy tasks to run during off peak hours (overnight or weekends)
• Send email when discovery and copy tasks complete

DiscoverIT collects the following information from all of the files on the network:

• File owner
• Creation, last modified, last accessed date
• File size
• Access version (for Microsoft Access only)

Additionally, DiscoverIT collects the following information from Microsoft Access, Excel, PowerPoint and Word files to determine whether or not the file contains:

• VBA code
• Links
• Passwords
• Charts