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Posts in 2025

  • WikiTraccs for Markdown

    Friday, January 03, 2025 in News

    This topic is part of WikiTraccs for Markdown and work in progress. Join the waitlist and start publishing Markdown to SharePoint soon When demoing Confluence to SharePoint migrations with WikiTraccs, I sometimes get approached with something …

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Posts in 2024

  • Making SharePoint Tables Look Pretty

    Wednesday, December 18, 2024 in News

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    Update As of April 2025 you can merge table cells in the SharePoint page editor. Microsoft added support for that. Update 2 As of May 2025 you can set the table cell background color and configure the border style. So, all table formattings applied …

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  • How much time will a Confluence to SharePoint migration take?

    Saturday, December 14, 2024 in News

    The migration time depends heavily on the source content in Confluence, and the network speed, both for downloads and uploads. We’ll do some test migrations to have real-world data to look at. Summary (TL;DR) Here are the average migration …

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  • Confluence Quirks

    Saturday, November 30, 2024 in News

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    When speaking about page migrations failing, I mean the things on this page. All those tripped up page migration at some point, those are now known and worked around by WikiTraccs (where possible). This list is more like a “fun” …

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  • Good Practices for your Confluence to SharePoint Migration

    Friday, November 22, 2024 in News

    Often I get asked about best practices around Confluence to SharePoint migrations and WikiTraccs. Please note that I am not directly involved in migration projects. If there is a perfect project where the client doesn’t need my help because …

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  • Confluence Cloud Specialties

    Monday, November 18, 2024 in News

    Note This post is only relevant for Confluence Cloud. To migrate content from Confluence Cloud to SharePoint Online, WikiTraccs needs to access content in Confluence Cloud to download it. Content means page content, attachments, metadata, macro …

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  • WikiTraccs switches to Confluence Cloud v2 REST API

    Sunday, November 17, 2024 in News

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    Note The information in this post is relevant for Confluence Cloud only. There are no changes for Confluence on-premises. Background Confluence Cloud so far provided programming interfaces (APIs) that allowed applications like WikiTraccs to treat it …

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  • Migrated SharePoint Page Names Explained

    Saturday, November 16, 2024 in News

    SharePoint pages migrated by WikiTraccs all follow the same naming scheme. We’ll take a look at how those names look and why this scheme is applied. How WikiTraccs names migrated pages In contrast to Confluence, SharePoint pages are files and …

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  • How to migrate only some pages?

    Wednesday, November 06, 2024 in News

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    Note When talking about pages, this also means blog posts and the new cloud content types like whiteboards. A more common term would be content, but that does sound a bit generic and would also cover attachments. So let’s keep it at pages …

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  • Confluence vs. SharePoint - Part 1: Overall structure

    Wednesday, October 30, 2024 in News

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    Note When talking about Confluence pages, blog posts are also meant, because they are basically pages with another name. When looking at the cloud there is more than pages and blog posts but let’s keep things simple by looking at what is at …

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