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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...
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Christian Taveras's avatar
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.
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Steven Collier
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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's avatar
    SystemEngineer
    Iron Contributor
    Jun 10, 2021
    @steven, Where can I get that Powershell module ?
    and, does the ShareGate Module cost the license?
    • Christian Taveras's avatar
      Christian Taveras
      Iron Contributor
      Jun 15, 2021
      I would use the SPMT its free. I believe there is a cost to sharegate.
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    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's avatar
    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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    Deleted
    Sep 11, 2018

    Hi Steven, we are about to do the same type of migration which is moving users home drives to OneDrive for Business - not the same amount of users luckily (Approx. 500 users). We have already used Sharegate but for migrating on-prem sharepoint to sharepoint on-line so we have 1 license. I see your migration you used sharegate powershell. I found these links:

    https://en.share-gate.com/blog/onedrive-for-business-migration-powershell

    https://en.share-gate.com/blog/easier-onedrive-for-business-migration

     

    Was that the method you used?

     

    Regards

    Justin

  • Christian Taveras's avatar
    Christian Taveras
    Iron Contributor
    Sep 05, 2018

    thats what i was wondering the transmission of the data to cloud.  Let me look into sharegate.

    • Myles Jeffery's avatar
      Myles Jeffery
      Brass Contributor
      Sep 06, 2018
      Hi Christian,

      Take a look at Files To Go too. We have specific support for bulk migrations to OneDrive for Business including incremental migrations. You can find out more about Files To Go here http://www.thinkscape.com/SharePoint-Online-File-Migration-Tool/

      Myles
      • Christian Taveras's avatar
        Christian Taveras
        Iron Contributor
        Sep 24, 2018

        Sounds good, will check into this as well.

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