Migrating existing content into Alfresco

If you want your Enterprise Content Management initiative to be successful, then you need to make sure that you can move your existing content into the new system. Most enterprises will have content in the form of files (on local or shared hard disks), email attachments, faxes (for example, invoices), and scanned images. It is very important to move the content to a centralized and highly scalable content repository such as Alfresco.

Alfresco is a powerful Content Management System for the enterprise, and supports various ways of migrating existing content in the enterprise.

Drag-and-drop content to the network drive

You can drag-and-drop (bulk upload) content from your local hard disks to the Alfresco server by using options such as CIFS, FTP, or WebDAV. Refer to the Use network drives to manage content section in this chapter, for details of how to move content from your hard disk to the Alfresco server.

The problem with this approach is that you will...