Migrating to OneDrive

[Simcfc73]

Morning,

 

I'm in the process of migrating our homefolders to OneDrive. I've looked at the migration manager agent and need to look at what to do with the students Gmail accounts... whether to migrate the contents or not. (we are a small school so tempted to manually move them).

 

The biggest issue I can see is the downloads folder.. Its redirected to a folder inside their home directory and I never purge it so some users have big folders.. well over 3Gb.

 

Just curious if anyone doesn't migrate this folder and keep it on site... may complicate things tbh.

[DaveTheTech]

I haven't gone from Google to OneDrive, but On-Prem to OneDrive.

Download folders are not redirected. Users shouldnt be storing files they need there.

 

It will probably be different for you, but I used the migration as a time to remind users of this.

That if its a shared PC, this will be one folder that gets cleared.

 

Do you have the option of leaving it to the users to do? I'd be tempted to do that.

[djm968]

Look at it as a good opportunity to have a spring clean.... instruct staff/students to move anything they want to keep from their downloads folder into their documents folder(s) and only migrate that folder. Keep a copy of all existing files shares on-site but make them read-only or only accessible to you, just in case staff realise they've forgot to move something they need, then migrate those files on a individual basis. Edited April 26, 2024 by djm968

[DrCheese]

Look at it as a good opportunity to have a spring clean.... instruct staff/students to move anything they want to keep from their downloads folder into their documents folder(s) and only migrate that folder. Keep a copy of all existing files shares on-site but make them read-only or only accessible to you, just in case staff realise they've forgot to move something they need, then migrate those files on a individual basis.

 

hah, trust me people won't tidy I gave staff warning here that we were migrating & none of them tidied, even tho they all said they would.

 

I kinda get it, I've done tidy jobs before but it can take hours and stops you from doing other things.

[Simcfc73]

I started tidying a bit last night... I love the image resizer and agent ransack to find duplicates.

 

I'll migrate all the students then let the staff do their own. We aren't migarting the shared drives this year which is half the battle.... especially with PE taking loads of videos for moderation.

 

Not sure what to do about the address book too.. probably over thinking it tbh.