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Christian Taveras

Iron Contributor

Aug 06, 2018

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 t...

jcgonzalezmartin

MVP

Aug 11, 2018

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

Christian Taveras

Iron Contributor

Aug 29, 2018

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.

Steven Collier
MVP
Aug 29, 2018
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.
- SystemEngineer
  Iron Contributor
  Jun 10, 2021
  @steven, Where can I get that Powershell module ?
  and, does the ShareGate Module cost the license?
  - Christian Taveras
    Iron Contributor
    Jun 15, 2021
    I would use the SPMT its free. I believe there is a cost to sharegate.
- VirtualTech
  Brass Contributor
  Apr 05, 2019
  Steven Collier
  Hi Steve,
  
  I was wondering if you created a folder called "Home Drive" referencing their file share drive or did you simply ingested all the data to root of ONEDRIVEURL?
  
  Did you work of one machine with share gate client or did you install share gate on the file servers?
  
  Not sure why but I can't get the sharegate module to load on my local machine PS.
  
  Thank you.
- Pascal RUFIN
  Copper Contributor
  Nov 05, 2018
  Hi,
  How do you manage the backups of the migrated files ?
  Do you use policy retention ?
  
  Regards

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