Migrating from file shares to SharePoint and OneDrive

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Migrating from file shares to SharePoint and OneDrive

A playbook for moving file shares to SharePoint and OneDrive: information architecture, tools, permissions, cleanup, and the pitfalls that sink migrations.

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Which tool should I use to migrate file shares to SharePoint?

Microsoft's free SharePoint Migration Tool or Migration Manager (agent-based, from the SharePoint admin center) for most migrations; third-party tools such as ShareGate or AvePoint when you need permission remapping, in…

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What breaks when moving file shares to SharePoint?

Long paths (over 400 characters in the URL), unsupported characters and file types, files over 250 GB, NTFS permissions that do not map to SharePoint groups, mapped-drive-dependent applications, and Access databases or…

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Should file-share content go to OneDrive or SharePoint?

Personal home drives to OneDrive (Known Folder Move handles desktop and documents); departmental and project shares to SharePoint sites, one per team or function. Migrating a department share into one person's OneDrive…

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