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Migrating home folders to OneDrive for Business
Has anyone gone through a migration like this. How can I automate copying or synchronizing Home dir to one drive. Id like zero interaction from the user so I can do this a few users at a time and then set a cut off date.
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- You can use the Sharepoint migration tool
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointmigration/how-to-use-the-sharepoint-migration-toolEdwin Campschroer Yep, found that tool I completed the migration of about 300 users a month ago.
As far as I can see SharePoint Migration Tool is user driven, not admin tool for moving user's folders to OD
Or did I miss something?
Seb
- What folders do you want to move? Take a look at the Known Folder Move feature in OneDrive: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-OneDrive-Blog/Migrate-Your-Files-to-OneDrive-Easily-with-Known-Folder-Move/ba-p/207076
- Saw this, this is a no go, I dont want to rely on user to do this hence copying the Home DIR on the back end and forcing a cut off date.
We migrated 7000 users using this approach. Our key concern was the bandwidth required the next morning when they come in a start syncing back the files you migrated, although today with files on demand it wouldn't be a concern.
We used ShareGate's powershell modules to script the move, and when we were done we set their previous space to be read only, then a month later we removed the share, and 3 months later we deleted it.
it took about 5 months to complete the job.
I want to migrate all users home DIR sitting on a local Network share to their 1 drive for BIZ.
However I want to do this on the back end. with 300 users I want to schedule a group at a time. THis way i can give them a cut off date as to when to start using 1 drive for Biz and disable their local home dir.
