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Migrating home folders to OneDrive for Business
Edwin 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
Sebastian cerazy Migration tool is for Admins, users wouldnt know what to do with it without direction from IT.
Christian Taveras , Using SPMT , can we copy the network share folders to users OneDrive folders from backend without user interaction? I checked the tool and when ruIn the tool with global admin account, I am not able to give the destination as Users OD folder( URL) as it throwing access denied error. When I searched , I see information that not even Global Admins can access users OD personal folders due to privacy restrictions. We have 1000+ users using a network share as homedrive ( mapped network folder) and requirement is to move the date to users OD silently without user interaction.
sriphani then you must have some sort of permission issue, my global admin acct is also a site collection admin for all users sharepoint My-sites(Aka Onedrive). But to answer your question, yes Zero user interaction using this SPMT. With 1k users I would suggest you do the following.
1. Provision all users onedrive instance via power shell.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/pre-provision-accounts
2. get a list of all users one drive url.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/list-onedrive-urls
3. get a list of all users network share path.
4. add all this info to a CSV to feed the SPMT.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointmigration/how-to-format-your-csv-file-for-data-content-migration
You may need to google some of this info and or reach out to Support for assistance.
Advise if you need anything else.
- Ofcourse it is admin tool, maybe it is my SP setup, but it was not easy to figure out how to to the transfer to users OD
I needed the whole path to be able to “see” that user space
Apart from this a nice tool, in fact I liked it more than Sharegate for that simple task
Seb
