Migrate Users personal File Share to OneDrive for Business

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We used Sharegate and depending from your legacy servers and data size first recommend is always the end user to do while they are only one who can clean data witch helps in the EU Compliance manner. Secondly ensure that you dont migrate ACE's from the legacy NTFS, while there is massive privacy risks if any admin Group is added full rights to the user Private OD4B, the issue is not there and is asis so far before someone put cloud licenses user to those admin groups and then Office Graphs, Delve and search start to work and then you are in deep ….t. Trust me seen that.

Sharegate is cheap but there are more cost and better tools.

Think also how you manage the homefolders during migration and how those are mapped to users profile, login script or GPO while when you start the copy you should make the folders read only and after copy rename so that user cannot see and that the drive mapping is removed, otherwise there is risk that you need to do delta migration for the changes and new files. 

In Windows 7 we noticed that folder redirector can be quite tricky if pointed to use home folder in the Network witch means that even if you remove the drive map the folder redirector can Still point to the same Network path so be familiar with this.

Also there is possiblity to offline usage at the Windows level that brings new cool thing you need to resolve and the issue with hard drive, Windows 7 does not allow dynamic sync like Windows 10 what you need to recongnize in communication if there is no space enough on the Workstation.

and finally you might need to configure OD4B throttling via GPO while when migrating at the same time MS start to do throtthling at the tenant level meaning that user see this as very slow or "frozen" SharePoint online sites.

Cheers