We’ve heard requests from several customers asking to make it easier to move their user data into OneDrive. To have a single button that they could push that would move content from the Desktop, Docu...
Updated Aug 24, 2018
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Hi All,
Has anyone been able to come up with a strategy for migrating from tradition Folder Redirection to OneDrive for Business?
I need to do this for around 500 users and would like the migrate their data using the SharePoint Migration Tool. The difficulty seems to be with removing the previous Folder Redirection which is deployed via Group Policy. If the Folder Redirection policies removal behaviour is set to "Restore contents" but "Move Contents to the new location" is Disabled the files are copied down to the workstation anyway when the user is removed from the Folder Redirection policy. Known Folder move will then try to copy everything up but will warn that every file has a conflict (because I have already pre-seeded the data anway).
The only option I can think of is to leave the Folder Redirection policy removal behaviour as "Leave Contents". Then create another policy that sets the Folder Redirection locations back to the local user profile with the "Move the contents to the new location" set to disabled in this policy.
Once I know that policy has taken effect, I will need to remove the user from it to allow Known Folder move to do its thing.
This seems like a logistical nightmare though. Id appreciate any thoughts from those who have had to back out of traditional Folder Redirection before moving to OfB.
Thanks.