When running the VSS to TFS converter (VSSConverter.exe) one of the most common questions I hear is how to create a UserMap.xml file for users who are no longer with the company or have had their accounts renamed. My first suggestion is that any...

SharePoint does not have persistent hyperlinks for all document revisions. More specifically – SharePoint has two methods for linking to documents: the canonical path and the revision paths. The canonical path is the latest copy of the document...

In my previous rant I made this statement (quoted out of context): Migrating WSS content to TFS? Piece of cake. Just enumerate each WSS change and replay the action in TFS. If you are doing an incremental migration then just enumerate those changes...

Happy New Year and all that. I spent the long weekend at Myrtle Beach soaking up rain or sun - depending on the moment you checked. I’ve been out of Fargo for a year now, after nearly 30 years living in Minnesota and North Dakota . I wasn’t timid about...