File share to OneDrive for Business File Migration?

Hi Interesting one, I'm looking to migrate file share data (home drives) to OneDrive for Business using PowerShell. I've hit a bit of an issue with permissions on "my sites". For information I'...

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Zoltan Bagyon
Feb 06, 2017
Just include the following before/after migrating:

Set-SPOUser -Site $onedrive -IsSiteCollectionAdmin $true -LoginName migration_admin@yourtenant.com # ...migration... Set-SPOUser -Site $onedrive -IsSiteCollectionAdmin $false -LoginName migration_admin@yourtenant.com

where $onedrive contains the URL of the user's Onedrive actually being migrated, like:
"https://yourtenant-my.sharepoint.com/personal/username_yourdomain_com/"

This grants site collection admin rights to the given users Onedrive for the technical user whose credentials are used for the migration, then remove it once you are done.

Zoltan Bagyon

Iron Contributor

Feb 06, 2017

Just include the following before/after migrating:

Set-SPOUser -Site $onedrive -IsSiteCollectionAdmin $true -LoginName migration_admin@yourtenant.com
# ...migration...
Set-SPOUser -Site $onedrive -IsSiteCollectionAdmin $false -LoginName migration_admin@yourtenant.com

where $onedrive contains the URL of the user's Onedrive actually being migrated, like:

"https://yourtenant-my.sharepoint.com/personal/username_yourdomain_com/"

This grants site collection admin rights to the given users Onedrive for the technical user whose credentials are used for the migration, then remove it once you are done.

Rob-CTL
Iron Contributor
Feb 07, 2017
Zoltan Bagyon Genius! thanks for that.

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