Introduction
This articles outlines the complete task flow for migrating folders and documents from Google Drive to OneDrive for Business. This migration requires an Azure subscription, which maximizes migration speed and bypasses throttling.
The Source must be a paid version of Google Drive. Free Google Drive accounts are not a supported Source.
Items and folders in "Shared with Me" will not be migrated. Only items in "My Drive" will be migrated. To migrate "Shared with Me" items, they must be added to "My Drive".
Endpoint Change Notification
For Government or Private Cloud migrations, select OneDrive (Private Cloud) endpoint types instead of OneDrive in your destination endpoint selection.
Set up the Azure Environment
Preparing the Source
Preparing the Destination
Licensing
Create A Document Project
Setting Endpoints
Source: Select Google Drive Destination: Select OneDrive for most OneDrive migrations, OR OneDrive (Private Cloud) for government migrations.
Run Migration
Support Options for this migration:
InitializationTimeout=8- This increases the initialization timeout window to eight hours.IncreasePathLengthLimit=1- Use this Advanced Option in MigrationWiz to enable the use of 400 characters for the file path name. RRemoveExistingPermissionsWhenUnspecified=1article for more information.ShrinkFoldersMaxLength=200(optional, but recommended) Read the How do I auto shrink the folder path when migrating to OneDrive for Business or SharePoint Online? article for more information.DocumentBrowsingMode=Moderate(optional, but recommended) Read the How does Google Drive to Microsoft OneDrive for Business with Moderate Mode work? article for more information.RenameConflictingFiles=1(optional, but recommended). Read the Error: Cannot create 'filename' because another file exists with the same name article for more information.- If the migration project is a long-term project, it may be necessary to add an additional Advanced Option for use during the final migration pass to verify the contents of previously migrated items. For more information, contact Support.
Note: There are no spaces on either side of the "=" sign, and the entries are case-sensitive, so pay special attention to the capital letters in the commands detailed above. MapPermissionEmailByPairsInProject=1Permissions generally cannot be migrated unless the prefix of the mail address is the same in the source and the destination. However, choosing Support Option MapPermissionEmailByPairsInProject=1 will allow permissions to be migrated without identical mail addresses.
- Set the Advanced Option to send a notification to end users after the migration pass completes. Notifications are not mandatory.
- Notifications > Send successful migration and notification to: > Source email address (if users are still using G Suite Gmail) or Destination email address (if users are already using Office 365).
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- Customize notification email. Checkmark the Customize "successful migration" email box. Add your own customization text and company name to this email.
Note: Notifications are not mandatory for a successful migration. Notifications should only be set up before the final pass. If performing a single, Full pass, set this up now. If you are following a Pre-Stage migration strategy, only set this up prior to the final Full (Delta) pass.
- Customize notification email. Checkmark the Customize "successful migration" email box. Add your own customization text and company name to this email.
Remove the Authentication App
Post-Migration Steps To prevent users from inadvertently logging in and using their Google Drive accounts, decommission the Google Drive user accounts, or change their passwords. Notify users once the migration has completed. Note: If you set the MigrationWiz Advanced Option for Notifications, they will receive an email upon migration completion. Assist them with setting up access to their OneDrive for Business accounts, and setting up their synchronization settings. Provide training on OneDrive for Business. Delete all the Azure containers used for this migration. This will prevent incurring post-migration Azure costs for these containers. Be careful to only delete the containers created for this migration.
Comments
9 comments
What happens with Google link sharing types:
* On - public on the web
* On - anyone with the link
* On - anyone within organisation can find and access
* On - anyone within organisation with the link
Hi Si Chan,
The Google sharing links are not migrated because the links cannot be converted to OneDrive for Business sharing links.
Hello Rob,
The documents that an external user shares with me, will the OneDrive for Business continue to appear?
I noticed in the section around the Sync Migration Pass, it recommends to disable Versioning on OneDrive or Sharepoint Online. But according to this MS articles, O365 Tenants since Oct 2018 have had that feature turned off, and do not allow Versioning to be disabled.
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-OneDrive-Blog/New-Updates-to-OneDrive-and-SharePoint-Team-Site-Versioning/ba-p/204390
Plus, the documentation here is vague... there is no Sync Migration Pass, only the Trial Migration, Pre-Stage Migration, and Full Migration options, just like an email migration project.
So, are they saying to only set the SyncItems=1 to the last Full Migration pass, or is it recommended to keep that option on for all migration passes, while clearing the Statistics between each pass... it is confusing for me. Not sure what I should do to help prevent multiple documents showing up in OneDrive for Business.
Or should I run only one pass, and hope it doesn't get partial data and require multiple passes?
Hello Ed,
Sorry for the confusion. With the SyncItems=1 option, that should only be ran on the final pass of the migration. It is not recommended to run multiple passes with this option. This can cause your OneDrive collections to balloon exponentially. So your original thought was correct. Only set and run the SyncItems=1 option on the final pass of the migration once you have migrated all the data over to the OneDrive.
Regards,
Nicholas
Hi,
Do you have video tutorial for this type of scenario? Migration from gdrive to onedrive
is there a trial version for this? Thanks
Hello Joey,
We do not have a video guide for this project type. However, we do have a way for you to run a trial migration. Simply set up the project following the steps in the above guide and select 'Trial Migration' when selecting the type of migration pass you wish to run. Tis pass does not require any licenses, and will allow you to move a handful of items to give you a feel of how the migration will proceed.
Thank you for your question.
Regards,
Nicholas
Hello,
Could you let me know whether this works for Google One 2TB Subscription? It's not a Free account nor is it a G-Suite account.
Sam,
If you can follow this KB and perform these tasks there is a chance it will work. You can then configure a migration project and run a free trial migration to test.
Thank you
Kyle
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