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Migrating files from Sharepoint Online document libraries to Azure Storage Accounts
Is this possible to do that exclusively in 365-Azure? Trying to bypass the "download the files from sharepoint to a local computer" part...This would be like using the Migration Tool (local computer t...
Might I ask why do you need to migrate files from SPO to Azure Storage? By the way, if you are looking for an automated way to do this, definitively CSOM API is the answer on the SPO side and I think you can get the same on the Azure part.
Thanks for the reply...still not sure if you can directly copy from SPO to an Az storage account. Am trying to avoid having the file stream reach our premises. You asked why go from SPO to Azure Storage? Its the pain of working with non-Office files (pdf's really) in sharepoint. Our users just can't let go of the File Explorer, and wwwdavroot has become quite problematic (non-working) for many of our Admin users enough so to force an alternate solution like Az File Sync to reduce the loss of productivity. Using the OneDrive sync client would be ideal in its current iteration for this case as a File Explorer replacement...but the data being accessed is not allowed to be sync'd. (you wouldn't want dept. shared data sync'd to yon random staff's home machine)...and there is no granular control available yet that could block sync but still let the files be browsed at the Doc Library level thus turning the OneDrive Sync client into a true SharePoint file explorer...