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Oct 01, 2017

SharePoint Migration Tool - First Impressions

Last week, at Microsoft Ignite, the new SharePoint Migration Tool was announced with a goal to simplify moving your content from your on-premises SharePoint environment or file shares to SharePoint O...

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Oct 04, 2017

Great tool and a great potential, if the make it possible that also MetaData and Contenttype's are given to files during the migration than i have all i hoped for.

Anyone knows if its also posible to copy the versioning on a fileshare aswell? the options are availible and im sure it will work on version from a on prem sharepoint farm to sharepoint online but from a file server to sharepoint online can i copy all the versions than aswell? and if yes are they availible als verions of that document or will they be different document. Like docname.docx, docname(1).docx etc.

Haniel Croitoru
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Oct 10, 2017
Hi Rob Giesen,

As far as I know, when you migrate from SharePoint on-premises, it can take multiple versions and bring it over to SharePoint Online. However, I didn't see a way to map multiple files in a file share to a single docment with versions in SharePoint Online.
- Rob Giesen
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  Oct 12, 2017
  Thank you for the reply and information!