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Mike D

Copper Contributor

Jun 11, 2018

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SharePoint Migration Tool Question

Hello,

I'm trying to use the SharePoint Migration Tool to migrate my users home drive content into OneDrive. I'm doing some testing and the tool is telling me that I am not a SharePoint Online Admin user. The account I'm using to run the tool is an Office 365 Global Admin account. What other permissions am I missing?

Thank you.

onedrive

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SharePoint Online

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Jun 11, 2018
When you are migrating to OneDrive you need to make sure you have full control over User's OneDrive Site. Make sure you add yourself as Site Collection Admin on User's OneDrive. You can do this from Admin Center.

Fromelard
Steel Contributor
Jun 14, 2018
The migration tool are generally capable to auto-promote your account used as Site Collection admin into the OneDrive Site collection.

Look the Sharegate if you can, the settings is by default enable

From our side, we invited the user to do the personal content migration from Computer drive or network drive by themselves and not migrate the user account with a tool, and finally due to our size it was probably the best option.

Fab
KevinCrossman
MVP
Jun 11, 2018
Even Office 365 Global Admins do not have default access to OneDrive for Business libraries.

There are some resources for how to do this here:

https://www.petri.com/4-ways-add-secondary-administrator-onedrive-business
Deleted
Jun 11, 2018
When you are migrating to OneDrive you need to make sure you have full control over User's OneDrive Site. Make sure you add yourself as Site Collection Admin on User's OneDrive. You can do this from Admin Center.