mylesJ

The kind of performance you are seeing, 2.3GB in 1hr 15 mins, is in line with the performance I have seen others achieve migrating to OneDrive for Business from on-premises file servers. The issue is not the bandwidth in your case as you have plenty; its the speed at which SharePoint Online subsequently processes the data after it has received it. The upload would be fast, but the commit of that data by SharePoint Online would be slow. To achieve better overall performance you could try uploading in parallel on the same computer or ideally different computers. For example, migrate 100 students' to OneDrive for Business on one server, and another 100 on another server. I recommend reading this article by Andre Kieft (from Microsoft) on migrating to OneDrive for Business. It's not about performance but more about the kinds of gotchas and issues you could run in to and how to resolve them when migrating from file servers to Office 365: Migrating File Shares to OneDrive for Business - Share-Port - Site Home - TechNet Blogs I also have a free performance calculator you can plug your numbers in to give you a rough idea of migration times here (on the right hand column): Migration calculator

Hi rob101. Thanks for confirming. Some more questions if you don't mind. What method did you use to upload the files? Did you use the "Open with Explorer" feature to open up Windows Explorer on the OneDrive for Business then drag and drop the files in or did you use the OneDrive for Business sync tool?

Hi rob101. Are you referring to OneDrive for Business or OneDrive the consumer version?

Hi Don. I only have a limited experience with ADFS and SSO for Office 365 so take my advice with caution You may like to create a new post specifically asking about that. If your goal is to make the sign in experience of users seamless with Office 365 then ADFS would certainly help towards that, but there is the overhead of server requirements and maintenance to take in to consideration, and then of course high availability; if ADFS goes down then users will not be able to sign in to Office 365 from the corporate network or externally.

Hi DonWilliams. Andre Kieft, a Microsoft Partner Technology Consultant, has written an excellent guide on how to migrate home directories to OneDrive for Business. He walks through the steps involved such as analysing your files, identifying possible issues, and then options for the actual migration. Full details here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/akieft/archive/2013/09/06/migrating-file-shares-to-skydrive-pro.aspx

Hi Gardinho. The upload speed you are getting with Windows Explorer sounds low compared to the bandwidth you have available. I have seen this behaviour before with Windows Explorer when you have the "automatically detect settings" enabled under "LAN Settings" in Internet Explorer. I regularly achieve over 1MB a second upload speed on a connection with far less bandwidth using my file migration tool Files To Go. You can try it out here Office 365 SharePoint Online File Migration Tool to see if you get a different result than Window Explorer. Cheers, Myles Office 365 MVP

Hi William_tropico. File Extensions -> It is not possible to block file extensions in SkyDrive Pro. The block list is managed by Microsoft. An alternative may be to run a regular script to see what files are being stored there and alert/remove offending ones? However that's not trivial task. Bulk Management -> Are you referring to migration as well? I released a new version of my file migration tool, Files To Go, to support bulk migration of personal folders/home drives to SkyDrive Pro. The tool performs pre-migration checks and alerts you to things like not enough storage in a SkyDrivePro or too many files for the sync client. More details here: Office 365 SharePoint Online File Migration Tool Myles Office 365 MVP