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Migrate file shares to sharepoint online
Hello All, Firstly I may be asking an age old question but during my search, I was not able to find any related posts so her I go. We have a client with a number of file shares running on a S...
I would recommend looking to a 3rd party tool to manage the migration. Not only can it handle the metdata but you can also perform transformation for users that are no longer with the company. ShareGate offers an affordable option and you can even request a trial to experiment with some of your data. Other options include Metalogix Content Matrix & AvePoint's migration tools.
I use Sharegate for migrations of SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint Online. I have one job that Sharegate is unable to complete. I have 4TB of images to migrate from a file share to SharePoint Online. Sharegate is unable to migrate the metadata of the images. This is a feature request for Sharegate at this time.