Migrating to Onedrive from Local Home Folders/Roaming profiles

[password1234]

Hey all

 

We recenctly have started moving some of our infants/primary school to Onedrive getting rid compeltely of Home Folders and Roaming profiles which seems to be working well at the moment, most of these migration have just been a brand new server/brand new domain/brand new laptops so starting from scratch has been easier

 

However though there are some schools we looking to move who either just have a legacy setup still there i.e. home folders/profiles but want to move to One Drive.

 

The issue or way we are doing this at the moment is removing the profile/home folder paths from their AD account, move them to an Azure AD user group which we have created (Which also has the onedrive GPOS linked to it) we are having to make a local backup of their profile on their laptop/PC, delete the profile then get them to relogin again which creates a brand new profile on their laptop and this is when the onedrive kicks in and starts to sync desktop items and the folders correctly, everything is setup via group policy correctly all the onedrive policies and when they login first time on the device it works fine,

 

this works but its a bit long winded is there an easier way to transfer data across to onedrive without having to blow away their existing local profile on the PC???

[Miscbrah]

Just chiming in as I'm looking for the "golden method" also. Did you come across a good way of doing things in the end?

[password1234]

Just chiming in as I'm looking for the "golden method" also. Did you come across a good way of doing things in the end?

Hey, in the end we ended up using Sharepoint Migration Tool (install agents on the server setup jobs then let it run over ) and copy data from Local Home folder > One Drive and likewise with Roaming Profile Folders

 

For the Local Machine we just had to end up blowing the entire profile on the local device (We just ended up getting the users to backup their Browser Password/Favourites, then delete the local profile from their machine then get them to login again creating a new local profile then it would Sync with Onedrive

 

Long winded way but just ended up doing it this way start off with a brand new local profile!

 

Tried other way but ended up reall messy as there was paths in registry still pointing to old server etc. thought may aswell just start from scratch !