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EDU Tenant - File Migration for OneDrive for Business
Hi Calvin,
It sounds like you want to migrate a bunch of content from a fileshare server, right? Our University was in a similar situation over the summer and found ourselves without much help in merging two Edu tenants. If you are moving content from a fileshare, though - that would be much more straight forward.
Here are some suggestions:
- There are third party tools that can help automate much of this. I highly recommend https://en.share-gate.com/ for this - it is affordable, reliable, and the team at Sharegate have great documentation. I honestly can't say enough great things about this product.
- You'll need special permissions to access your users OneDrives. It's much more than just being a global admin or SharePoint admin, and if you have a lot of users, you'll want to give yourself plenty of time to grant this access even using powershell. Here's some instructions for scripting that: http://www.jijitechnologies.com/blogs/add-remove-secondary-site-collection-admin-to-all-onedrive-for-business-users
- Make sure to open a case with Microsoft to request an exception to throttling. If you don't let them know you are migrating a lot of content, you could be waiting a lot longer than you need to be.
- It's going to take longer than you think. It just is. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Best of luck, and happy to answer any questions that I can!
Hey Adrienne Andrews
Thanks very much for your reply. You are absolutely right we want to migrate a bunch of content from our fileshare servers.
I will certainly checkout Sharegate, we have also been told about http://www.thinkscape.com with their files to go solution. They also have a product called http://www.thinkscape.com/Map-Network-Drives-To-Office-365-OneDrive/ which will map ODFB and sharepoint as mapped drives on machines.
Thanks again.
Calv