They perform excellently, but they are paid. Examples are Sharegate, Metalogix, AvePoint and many other. There are a variety of third party tools available in the market for content migration in SharePoint. Works with classic SharePoint and requires 32 bit Internet Explorer. It is almost the same as copying documents from the local drive and losing out on Metadata and version history. This option only works with publishing features enabled sites. It's available to users with at least Contribute permission. It is very much limited in functionality and offers moving or copying the content within the site collection. There are numerous ways to copy or move documents within SharePoint. Also, metadata includes any field information attached to the document inside SharePoint. The metadata includes creational information about the document as created by, created date, etc. The documents cannot be downloaded to the local drive and moved to other places as the metadata associated with the documents will get lost. The need of copying or moving the documents to other document libraries, sites or even other site collections then arises. As time passes, we like to have the documents logically placed together. The lifecycle of the document does not end here.

Over time everyone starts creating new documents in SharePoint or uploading the content. We generally start by creating a Document library to store the related documents. SharePoint is widely used for its content management capability.

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