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TechOtaku
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Oct 18, 2021

Migrate Folder Redirection via OneDrive KFM creates duplicates

Hi All,   Struggling to see where/why this is going wrong given the simplicity of the MS guide. In brief we have a number of RDS environments using FSLogix and GPO's for Folder Redirection. We're l...
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AshishBaranwal
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Feb 18, 2023
Even opening a P1 ticket with MS is also not helping us. their simple option Choose to merge or copy the files is also not working , it keeps on creating theke duplicate files with -copy suffix
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ArtSofM365
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Feb 23, 2023

My conclusion - MS Doc regarding this process is screwed and misleading.
In the first line it say such a shift is unsuported, then it says how to do it - which btw is wrong and causes these issues as described here.

That is what works for me:
First - copy your user data in the backend using Migration Manager - the one with web console or SPMT (for those who have not tried they both do the same thing, SPMT is slightly eaiser to appraoch programmatically with PS1, but MM has nicer web console)
Second - redirect home folders to OneDrive folders on local PC
Then - KFM them via GPO or Intune (optionally, eg to get rid of GPO)
Otherwise data will duplicate

There is nice YT vids - 2 parts of how this can be done:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJRMr6O3PQU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgYkWcRZhEY

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