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Mentioned by British Council ----- Whether you are upgrading from SharePoint 2003 or 2007 to SharePoint 2010, moving between SharePoint servers, or re-organizing your SharePoint content, Migration Manager for SharePoint, formerly SharePoint Site Migration Manager, is an easy-to-use and convenient way of moving your SharePoint data. With its familiar copy-and-paste-style user interface, you can quickly migrate all SharePoint sites, libraries, lists, web parts and permissions between servers.

SharePoint is unquestionably a success from a licensing perspective, but dig behind the firewall and the picture looks more chequered. For example in a uSamp survey last year, 80 percent of organizations using SharePoint said employees continue to share documents as email attachments. Recently, the UK Met Office abandoned a twoyear SharePoint implementation project in favor of the cloud-based Huddle service. Even where SharePoint is used, people aren't truly collaborating with it. Team sites are often really document graveyards where content is stored once collaboration has stopped.

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Mentioned by British Council Easily migrate to Microsoft Office 365 and SharePoint online with MetaVis Migrator for Office 365. No server install required. Just install MetaVis on your workstation and start migrating to Office 365 now.

As Yammer integrates more with Office 365 there seems little point, and little desire from Microsoft, to keep it as a separate product. This isn't to put Yammer down - it's a good tool, has many thankful customers and fulfills a real need for many. But it's clear that Microsoft sees Yammer features (or features inspired and powered by Yammer technology) as parts of Office 365.

The following is a list of things that MOSS provides that WSS v3.0 does not.

Microsoft announced new Yammer integration with Office 365 Groups. The integration gives users access to SharePoint sites and document repositories, a shared OneNote notebook, and task management with Planner.

"Sharepoint, Confluence and Newsgator: towards the social stack"

Mentioned by AWE ---- ICS Solutions technology Advantage Programs aim to reduce the time, cost and risk of planning, designing, building and implementing Microsoft technology solutions.  Through a flexible suite of 10 technology choices, the Advantage Program can either:    Take the client through a structured process from understanding the technology through to a full implementation  Allow the client to selectively choose a technology service at any point in their technology or solution process   The Advantage Programs have been built using our experience with over 400 clients and best practice methadology, they provide a flexible, yet structured approach to your technology solutions. 

from Barry Jones, BAE Systems