A good way to gauge the success of your server consolidation or file migration project is the level of activity at your help desk the morning after the migration. If it is a typical day, you’ve achieved your goal of minimal downtime and disruption. However, if there is an overflow of extra emails and calls flooding in, you might have overlooked one unexpected hazard in your consolidation or migration plan: broken file links.

In any large enterprise, there are often millions of files with potentially hundreds of thousands of links in business critical applications such as Microsoft Excel™ Access™ and Word™. When these links are disrupted during a file migration, the files are rendered unusable. The result is chaos, with frustrated end-users, disgruntled executives, and frantic support technicians who are devoting untold hours of time to manually repair the links.

LinkIT provides the controls and features for logical and orderly remediation of linked files. The LinkIT functions associated with the features include:

• Finds groups of linked files - LinkIT Find Files with filters applied locates the specific files or groups of files
• Identifies the unique links within the group - LinkIT Reporting provides summary and details about the files found
• Validates links and defines replacement links - Enter search and replace criteria. Replace the old file paths, server names, etc. with the updated names
• Automates the Search and Replace effort - Fix all links in a Batch Process or individual remediation of links in trouble. LinkIT performs highly customizable search and replace function

With LinkIT, customers are able to shorten the planning phase significantly and ultimately deliver server consolidation and migration projects on time and under-budget. Click here for details on how LinkIT can save you money.