WikiTraccs Hotspots

🔥 How does a Confluence migration to SharePoint look like?

• Watch a video showing the whole process of migrating from Confluence to SharePoint with WikiTraccs: Getting Started.
• Get more broader input for your migration process planning and validation: Migration Playbook.

🔥 How to test WikiTraccs? How does purchasing and licensing WikiTraccs work?

• Test WikiTraccs using the free trial version; learn about the differences to the licensed version of WikiTraccs here: WikiTraccs Trial Version.
• Everything related to purchasing can be found here: Purchasing.
• There is more information in the FAQ section of the Pricing page.

🔥 How to get started? How to install WikiTraccs? Prerequisites?

• The video on this pages covers the download and start of WikiTraccs: Getting Started.
• Registering the Entra ID application - why we need it and how it can be configured - is covered in this blog post: Registering WikiTraccs as app in Entra ID.
• Confluence versions 6, 7 and 8 are supported; with Confluence Cloud your mileage might vary (see issue #24)

🔥 What can be migrated by WikiTracs? What do the results look like?

• Have a look at the features page for a complete and detailled list of what can and cannot be migrated: Features.
• Get a visual insight of migration results here: Migration Samples.
• A primer on what to expect from WikiTraccs (and what not to expect) is this post: What to expect from WikiTraccs?.
• Migrating Confluence images is covered here, with great visual detail:
  • The art of positioning images (part 1 of 2)
  • The art of positioning images (part 2 of 2)
• Setting the right expectations regarding Confluence macros is what this blog post does: What about those Confluence Macros?
• A list of macros and how they are migrated can be found here: Known Macros.

🔥 How to migrate permissions, and metadata like page authors and dates?

• Migrating permissions is possible, although it only makes sense in some cases; more details here: Mapping principals and migrating permissions.
• Migrating page authors, editors, creation and modification dates is possible with the right permissions; this is bound to the Entra ID app registration and covered in this section: Are there alternatives to those permissions?
• How to map users and groups from Confluence to SharePoint users and groups is covered in Mapping Confluence users and groups to SharePoint.

🔥 What about delta migrations? How to update migrated pages?

• WikiTraccs won’t touch SharePoint pages that are already migrated; you can delete SharePoint pages and re-start the migration and WikiTraccs will create them again. (Feature Request)

🔥 How can I stay up-to-date about new releases?

• You should turn on notifications about new releases on GitHub. You’ll never miss a new release.
• You can subscribe to the blog RSS feed, although this is more to be up to date in general, independent of specific releases.

🌳 How to replicate most-wanted Confluence functionality?

• Page Breadcrumb: WikiPakk creates a dynamic breadcrumb for every page
• Page Tree: WikiPakk offers a page tree in SharePoint that resembles what users know from Confluence