upgrade of sharepoint 2007 to sharepoint 2019

Question

we have an old sp2007 that needs to be transferred to sp2019 . Because they are on different networks I need to download to a temp directory incrementally. Is there a Powershell script to down load doc with versioning and metadata . Then upload it to sp2019

Answer 1

Hi @nellie ,

Thank you for posting in this community.

I understand that you want to upgrade documents with versioning and metadata from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2019. This is not a simple task. Because there are so many version differences between them, using different versions of office software, etc. Even if you download the content you may have display problems.

I found the powershell code for you to download all the documents and their versions, as well as all the metadata to a CSV file.

# This script will extract all of the documents and their versions from a site. It will also
# download all of the list data and document library metadata as a CSV file.

Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -erroraction SilentlyContinue
# 
# $destination: Where the files will be downloaded to
# $webUrl: The URL of the website containing the document library for download
# $listUrl: The URL of the document library to download

#Where to Download the files to. Sub-folders will be created for the documents and lists, respectively.
$destination = "C:\Export"

#The site to extract from. Make sure there is no trailing slash.
$site = "http://yoursitecollection/yoursite"

# Function: HTTPDownloadFile
# Description: Downloads a file using webclient
# Variables
# $ServerFileLocation: Where the source file is located on the web
# $DownloadPath: The destination to download to

function HTTPDownloadFile($ServerFileLocation, $DownloadPath)
{
    $webclient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
    $webClient.UseDefaultCredentials = $true
    $webclient.DownloadFile($ServerFileLocation,$DownloadPath)
}

function DownloadMetadata($sourceweb, $metadatadestination)
{
    Write-Host "Creating Lists and Metadata"
    $sourceSPweb = Get-SPWeb -Identity $sourceweb
    $metadataFolder = $destination+"\"+$sourceSPweb.Title+" Lists and Metadata"
    $createMetaDataFolder = New-Item $metadataFolder -type directory 
    $metadatadestination = $metadataFolder

    foreach($list in $sourceSPweb.Lists)
    {
        Write-Host "Exporting List MetaData: " $list.Title
        $ListItems = $list.Items 
        $Listlocation = $metadatadestination+"\"+$list.Title+".csv"
        $ListItems | Select * | Export-Csv $Listlocation  -Force
    }
}

# Function: GetFileVersions
# Description: Downloads all versions of every file in a document library
# Variables
# $WebURL: The URL of the website that contains the document library
# $DocLibURL: The location of the document Library in the site
# $DownloadLocation: The path to download the files to

function GetFileVersions($file)
{
    foreach($version in $file.Versions)
    {
        #Add version label to file in format: [Filename]_v[version#].[extension]
        $filesplit = $file.Name.split(".") 
        $fullname = $filesplit[0] 
        $fileext = $filesplit[1] 
        $FullFileName = $fullname+"_v"+$version.VersionLabel+"."+$fileext           

        #Can't create an SPFile object from historical versions, but CAN download via HTTP
        #Create the full File URL using the Website URL and version's URL
        $fileURL = $webUrl+"/"+$version.Url

        #Full Download path including filename
        $DownloadPath = $destinationfolder+"\"+$FullFileName

        #Download the file from the version's URL, download to the $DownloadPath location
        HTTPDownloadFile "$fileURL" "$DownloadPath"
    }
}

# Function: DownloadDocLib
# Description: Downloads a document library's files; called GetGileVersions to download versions.
# Credit 
# Used Varun Malhotra's script to download a document library
# as a starting point: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/varun_malhotra/archive/2012/02/13/10265370.aspx
# Variables
# $folderUrl: The Document Library to Download
# $DownloadPath: The destination to download to
function DownloadDocLib($folderUrl)
{
    $folder = $web.GetFolder($folderUrl)
    foreach ($file in $folder.Files) 
    {
        #Ensure destination directory
        $destinationfolder = $destination + "\" + $folder.Url 
        if (!(Test-Path -path $destinationfolder))
        {
            $dest = New-Item $destinationfolder -type directory 
        }

        #Download file
        $binary = $file.OpenBinary()
        $stream = New-Object System.IO.FileStream($destinationfolder + "\" + $file.Name), Create
        $writer = New-Object System.IO.BinaryWriter($stream)
        $writer.write($binary)
        $writer.Close()

        #Download file versions. If you don't need versions, comment the line below.
        GetFileVersions $file
    }
}

# Function: DownloadSite
# Description: Calls DownloadDocLib recursiveley to download all document libraries in a site.
# Variables
# $webUrl: The URL of the site to download all document libraries
function DownloadSite($webUrl)
{
    $web = Get-SPWeb -Identity $webUrl

    #Create a folder using the site's name
    $siteFolder = $destination + "\" +$web.Title+" Documents"
    $createSiteFolder = New-Item $siteFolder -type directory 
    $destination = $siteFolder

    foreach($list in $web.Lists)
    {
        if($list.BaseType -eq "DocumentLibrary")
        {
            Write-Host "Downloading Document Library: " $list.Title
            $listUrl = $web.Url +"/"+ $list.RootFolder.Url
            #Download root files
            DownloadDocLib $list.RootFolder.Url
            #Download files in folders
            foreach ($folder in $list.Folders) 
            {
                DownloadDocLib $folder.Url
            }
        }
    }
}

#Download Site Documents + Versions
DownloadSite "$site"

#Download Site Lists and Document Library Metadata
DownloadMetadata $site $destination

Reference：https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/95073/powershell-for-downloading-documents-with-versions

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And since SP2007 is no longer supported, we can't help you test it: SharePoint Server 2010 Support End Date: April 13, 2021. We apologize for not being able to synchronize this process with your testing.

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