Moving file shares to OneDrive

[rustynails87]

Hello,

Well we have a client in a domain environment that would like to move all their file shares to One Drive. They basically want to recreate how the files are set up on the on site server and move it all to the cloud. They are doing this so they can access all the files from anywhere and from any device. I have not done a migration like this before...

Has anyone completed this task before? Any good tutorials on how to complete this task?

Much appreciated

 

[Sky-Knight]

Wrong product, you need Azure storage, not OneDrive. OneDrive is individual based, personal storage for specific people. They can share things, but it's not really meant for mass access.

Azure Storage on the other hand, actually supports mapping drives to it!

 

[marley1]

Kind of correct

You are looking at SharePoint and One Drive

 

[rustynails87]

Are there any documents on how to migrate? One drive is paid... Is sharepoint free or do you need to subscribe to both?

 

[marley1]

That comes with office 365 subscriptions. They should already have that

 

[rustynails87]

Looking at Sharepoint subscriptions, yest OneDrive looks to be included. If you're looking at the OneDrive subscriptions the Sharepoint service is not included in some subscription packages...

 

[seedubya]

Looking at Sharepoint subscriptions, yest OneDrive looks to be included. If you're looking at the OneDrive subscriptions the Sharepoint service is not included in some subscription packages...

If you want to do this your each user will need to have an Office 365 account on a sub that includes Sharepoint. OneDrive is "My Documents" Sharepoint is your fileshares. The OneDrive Sync Client is used to sync both sets of files to their machines. I DO NOT RECOMMEND the mapping of drive letters to Sharepoint Online - it is not reliable and you will cry - many times.

They can retain their existing infrastructure and make all of their existing shares available via the web using Centrestack https://centrestack.com/
This does not involve any migration at all, just the setup of a the application which "cloudifies" their existing file shares.

 

[callthatgirl]

SharePoint is the way to go and you don't map it just download the sync software, it will be a OneDrive.exe. It will do it for SP and OD though. I have had some snags with getting it to load from Chrome, so try Edge or IE. Mapping to SP agreed, will break and clients love seeing that drive letter lol. Owell, goodbye old days!

 

[Metanis]

My son is a department manager for a Fortune 500 company. Required by their IT to migrate internal shares to OneDrive an employee somehow managed to "synchronize" the deletion of thousands of files.

The good news was that OneDrive doesn't actually delete anything for about 30 days. The bad news? The "restoration" interface allows you to restore about 30 files at a time.

The company paid for custom scripts that took two weeks to recover the data rather than the years it would have taken using the default interface.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Hello,

Well we have a client in a domain environment that would like to move all their file shares to One Drive. They basically want to recreate how the files are set up on the on site server and move it all to the cloud. They are doing this so they can access all the files from anywhere and from any device. I have not done a migration like this before...

Has anyone completed this task before? Any good tutorials on how to complete this task?

Much appreciated

Office 365 bundles in two "file sharing" services in their suite of services. If you want to stay within the O365 ecosystem...
*OneDrive(for business)....this is meant for your "personal file sync". Think of it like "folder redirection" or "roaming profiles"...so that your "document libraries" are available/synced at whatever computers you use.
*Sharepoint. This is meant to be for the whole organization...the central file repositories, for everyone. This is the equivalent of the "S:\Shared" drive mapped to a file server where everyone stores stuff. Of course you can/do get more granular with additional mapped drives for different groups of users, like Admin, HR, Marketing, etc etc. Instead of a different drive letter you just create a different site. And then it uses the OneDrive sync engine to create those libraries in your Explorer window. And yes you can get granular with permissions, and even break down into teams or groups to bundle with other collaboration services like shared mailboxes/ calendars.

 

[RoadRunner]

One question to all you sharepoint people. If the good old S: drive has lots of data how do you handle that especially with multiple user profiles.
I know you can select "offline" but onedrive/sharepoint still syncs everything once you clicked on it. Even having 50-80GB in the share which would not be much and 3-4 profiles would break every 250GB SSD in a normal office PC/Laptop.

 

[Slaters Kustum Machines]

One question to all you sharepoint people. If the good old S: drive has lots of data how do you handle that especially with multiple user profiles.
I know you can select "offline" but onedrive/sharepoint still syncs everything once you clicked on it. Even having 50-80GB in the share which would not be much and 3-4 profiles would break every 250GB SSD in a normal office PC/Laptop.

Files on Demand takes care of this issue. https://support.office.com/en-us/ar...n-demand-88d0ebed-bbd7-4d00-8c1c-0d18a5543b43

 

[seedubya]

For all the people touting Sharepoint here ..... It's great but it's NOT as good as an on-premises file server in terms of functionality and ease of management. Once you start getting into sophisticated permissions and group management it starts to have serious issues.

One question to all you sharepoint people. If the good old S: drive has lots of data how do you handle that especially with multiple user profiles.
I know you can select "offline" but onedrive/sharepoint still syncs everything once you clicked on it. Even having 50-80GB in the share which would not be much and 3-4 profiles would break every 250GB SSD in a normal office PC/Laptop.

Where do the user profiles come into it, currently? Are you concerned with existing roaming profiles or folder re-directions?

 

[rustynails87]

Thanks for all the replies folks!

Any suggestions for software as to copying all of these currently on prem files/folders to the sharepoint cloud?

I had a project a while back that I had to move all files/folders to a synology device and not everything copied because of the 255 file path limit... I don't want this to happen again.

Maybe I should open a new forum post for this question...

 

[Slaters Kustum Machines]

Thanks for all the replies folks!

Any suggestions for software as to copying all of these currently on prem files/folders to the sharepoint cloud?

I had a project a while back that I had to move all files/folders to a synology device and not everything copied because of the 255 file path limit... I don't want this to happen again.

Maybe I should open a new forum post for this question...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointmigration/introducing-the-sharepoint-migration-tool

 

[RoadRunner]

I'm not concerned about roaming profiles but if you have 50GB synced in sharepoint and have 3 different users logging into the machine each user will sync the 50GB so you have 150GB used disk space. Files on demand still leaves them on your computer once you opened a file and not like dropbox really keeps it cloud only.

 

[seedubya]

I'm not concerned about roaming profiles but if you have 50GB synced in sharepoint and have 3 different users logging into the machine each user will sync the 50GB so you have 150GB used disk space. Files on demand still leaves them on your computer once you opened a file and not like dropbox really keeps it cloud only.

yeah, not perfect in that regard but you can just right-click on the synced folder and click "Clear Space" and all downloaded files will be removed except those marked "Always keep on this PC"