Migrating from Google Drive to OneDrive

[soveryapt]

Afternoon all

 

One of my schools is looking to move from Google Drive to OneDrive (long story as to why they went with Google Drive over OneDrive when they use O365 for emails).

 

Anyone know of any easy way to do this in one hit? I've had a look around, but there doesn't seem to be many straight forward options, so I figured I would come back to the fold and see if anyone has any brilliant ideas.

 

Thanks

Andy

[ZeroHour]

I *think* MigrationWiz can do this although its not free but it may be worth asking what the edu cost would be.

[mavhc]

You'd have to use the APIs to download and upload all the files, but you'd also have to do this on a per user basis

 

Maybe testing installing GDrive and OneDrive pointing to the same folder for every user

[chaplic]

There's a feature in the newest version of onedrive client called 'known folder move' which moves the data client side. It might meet your needs. Similarly I moved about 20k users to onedrive using essentially a home-grown version of the same idea. It got the users to login to onedrive, then silently robocopied the userdata into the onedrive folder, reporting progress back to a database at every step (and doing a bit of file length/ name checking). Then when ready, a group membership change repoints the users desktop, mydocs etc to the onedrive folder and a final copy of data was done.

[Arthur]

There's a feature in the newest version of onedrive client called 'known folder move' which moves the data client side.

How would KFM work if the data is stored in Google Drive and not any of the known folders or OneDrive?

 

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-OneDrive-Blog/Migrate-Your-Files-to-OneDrive-Easily-with-Known-Folder-Move/ba-p/207076

 

We’ve heard requests from several customers asking to make it easier to move their user data into OneDrive. To have a single button that they could push that would move content from the Desktop, Documents, and Pictures folders to OneDrive.

 

Today, we are making this a reality with the announcement of Known Folder Move (KFM) for OneDrive that will start rolling out to Targeted Release customers this week.

 

Known folders are global pointers in Windows representing a location on the user’s drive. They help users to organize their most important files and access them across different applications. KFM helps you move your docs, desktop, and pictures into OneDrive. Even the Screenshots and Camera Roll folders are included when the Picture folder has opted into KFM.

 

Silently redirect Windows known folders to OneDrive

This setting lets you redirect your users' Documents, Picture, and Desktop folders to OneDrive without user interaction. This policy works when all known folders are empty, and on folders redirected to a different OneDrive account. We recommend using this policy together with "Prompt users to move Windows known folders to OneDrive."

 

When you enable this policy, future releases will no longer check for empty known folders. Instead, known folders will be redirected and content within them will be moved.

[chaplic]

See the next line where I said 'it might meet your needs'. If people have set google drive as default documents area, it could be an option.