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Google Drive to SharePoint Online Migration Guide

This article guides you through the Google Drive to Microsoft SharePoint Online migration steps.

First time?

This migration guide contains the necessary steps to perform the actual migration, but there are many steps to preparing for migration. If this is your first time performing a migration, we have created a Migration Planning & Strategy Guide to walk you through planning, set-up, and general migration best practices.

If performing a Google Drive to OneDrive for Business migration, refer to the Google Drive to OneDrive for Business Migration Guide. This is the most common migration scenario for Google Drive migrations.

MigrationWiz

MigrationWiz is a migration tool, not a syncing tool. If changes are made at the source after migration, they will not sync to the destination, nor will changes made at the destination sync to the source. We do not have “live” monitoring of changes (as with a sync agent) and we cannot handle scenarios such as conflict resolution without user interaction.

Prerequisites

This migration requires an appropriate number of Shared Document Licenses. The Shared Document license applies to all document migration projects involving SharePoint or Google Shared Drives. This license type migrates up to 50GB of data per license.

This license migrates:

  • Documents
  • Folders

Licensing

The Google Drive to Sharepoint Online migration is supported by the Shared Document License type. This license does not support BitTitan software such as DeploymentPro.

Purchase licenses Considerations

Purchase licenses by following the steps below.

  1. Sign in to your BitTitan account. 
  2. In the top navigation bar, click Purchase.
  3. Click the Select button and choose the license type you need.
  4. Enter the number of licenses you want to purchase. Click Buy Now.
  5. Enter a Billing address if applicable.
  6. Click Next.
  7. Review the Order Summary and enter a payment method.
  8. Click Place Your Order.

Limitations

This migration scenario only migrates the content from the users' Google Drive accounts into the SharePoint document library. It does not migrate the permissions in the Source Google Drive shared documents. Make sure to deselect Document Permissions before submitting your migration pass.

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".

This is a one-to-many migration path. This means that data that belongs to one user will be migrated into a shared document library. This is a rare business case because individual data would then be accessible by multiple people.

The maximum file size for migration through MigrationWiz varies by migration type and environment, but may never exceed 60GB.

Migrated Items

Which items are migrated?
  • Folders
  • Folders you have shared
  • G Suite native files 
  • Code Files
  • Documents
  • Images
  • Executables
  • Videos
  • Audio Files
  • Templates (files that the template had been applied to are migrated)
  • Creation Date (Creation date gets changed to the "date of migration" date)
  • Scripts/Macros (Scripts are not converted to macros when going to documents)
  • Comments
  • Items/folders in "Shared with Me”. These folders must be added to the user’s “My Drive” and FullCopy Mode must be used to migrate these items/folders. 
  • Shortcuts (Migrated in Google Drive to Google Drive scenarios only)
  • Google Shared Drives (also known as Team Drives)
    • Only when SharePoint is the Destination
Which items are not migrated?
  • Personal / Free Google Drive is not supported
  • Document permissions
  • File/folder shortcuts
  • Versions
  • Google Photos

Prepare Azure Environment

If using Microsoft-provided Azure storage, you can skip this section.

  1. Estimate Azure storage costs. This step is optional but is useful in providing the customer with upfront storage costs ahead of time.
  2. Buy an Azure subscription, or use the free one-month trial (this option is only viable if you perform a small migration).
  3. Create an Azure storage account. We recommend you create an Azure Storage Account in the same Microsoft data center as the Destination Office 365 tenant. 
    • Log in to https://manage.windowsazure.com
    • Click Storage
    • Click Manage Access Keys at the bottom of the screen. The access keys need to be entered when creating the MSPComplete Source endpoint. We recommend you create an Azure Storage Account in the same Microsoft data center as the Destination Office 365 tenant. 
    • Take note of the Storage Account Name and the Primary Access Key as follows:
      • -accesskey – This is the Storage account name for the Blob – example “accountname”
      • -secretkey - This is the access key for the Storage account – example “W1RrDfkPNkfYfdVqizMNJjn5mXchwMP5uYBY8MsMqWTA7EubG911+4fZlki0Gag==”
  4. Create an Azure BLOB container. Take note of the name of the BLOB to be entered in the Bucket Name field in the project Advanced Options.

Prepare the Source

The Google Drive (Own Service Account) connector launched in 2020 and requires the set up of a Google Service account. This significantly reduces the likelihood of the migration being throttled. This is the option we recommend for all Google Drive migrations. Follow the steps below under OAuth2 Requirements for Google Drive (Own Service Account) to set up your environment for this endpoint.

All accounts being migrated must be in Active status in the tenant. Users with an Inactive status will not be able to fully migrate and will fail in the project.

OAuth2 Requirements for Google Drive (Own Service Account)

Prerequisites

  • Subscription to Google Cloud Platform.
  • Google Super Administrator account.
  • Ability to set up a service account on the G Suite tenant.
  • A Google service account must be set up before the MigrationWiz project is created.

Create a Google Project

  1. Go to the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Console and sign in as a super administrator. Choose one of the options below:
    • If you haven't used the Google Cloud Platform Console before, agree to the Terms of Service and click Create Project.
    • If you have used Google Cloud Platform Console before, at the top of the screen next to your most recent project name, click Down to open your projects list. Then, click New Project.
  2. Enter a project name and click Create.
  3. When the new project creation completes, at the top of the screen next to the current project name, click the Down icon and select the newly created project name from the list.

If you cannot create a project here, it may be that the ability to create projects has been disabled for your tenant. To check this, navigate to the Google Admin Center, click Apps > Additional Google Services, and select the Google Cloud Platform. Once there, you should see a toggled setting that allows users to create projects.

Enable APIs for Service Account

  1. Click Menu > APIs & Services > Library, from the Google Cloud Platform Console.
  2. Enable the following APIs by selecting the specific API and clicking Enable.
    Repeat for each API listed below:
    • Google Drive API
    • Admin SDK

Make sure that the respective services are enabled within the Google tenant. You can control services for your users using the instructions on this page: Control who can access G Suite and Google Services.

Create a Customer Tenant Service Account

  1. Click Menu > IAM & Admin > Service accounts from the Google Cloud Platform Console.
  2. Click + Create Service Account at the top middle of the screen and enter a name.
  3. Click Create.
  4. Assign the role of Owner to the new Service Account by selecting Owner from the Role drop-down menu.
  5. Click Continue to move to the next step, then click the Done 
  6. You will now be returned to the "Service Accounts" page. 
  7. On the ‘Service accounts' page, click the vertical ellipsis under the 'Actions’ column for the service account created above.
  8. Click the Create key.
    1. Make sure that JSON is selected as "Key Type."
  9. Click Create.
  10. Click Close.

Download the key as a JSON file and save the file's name and location. This JSON file will be used when setting up the migration endpoint in the migration project.

Important

The JSON file must contain information in the following fields: “type”, “private key”, and “client email”. If these mandatory fields are empty the file upload during endpoint creation will fail.

Setting the Scopes for the Migration

From the Google Cloud Platform Console:

  1. Click Menu.
  2. Click IAM & Admin.
  3. Click Service Accounts.
  4. Find the service account, set up in Step 3: Create a Customer Tenant Account.
  5. Find and copy the service account's Unique ID number. This is the Client ID number that will be used in a later step.
    • This field often needs to be added to the view. Click on the Column display options button and add a checkmark to Unique ID, then click OK.
    • This Client ID should be considered similar to Administrator account passwords and handled securely.

 Once these steps are complete

  1. Go to the G Suite admin page at google.com.
  2. Click Security.
  3. Click on Access and Data Control.
  4. Click on API controls.
  5. Open up Domain wide delegation.
  6. You can add the scopes to a pre-existing entry for another MigrationWiz project with the same tenant. If one does not pre-exist, select Add new
  7. In the Client ID field, paste the Unique ID copied above.
  8. In the OAuth scopes (comma-delimited) field, paste all scopes listed below:
  9. For source endpoint:
    https://www.googleapis.com/auth/admin.directory.group.readonly, https://www.googleapis.com/auth/admin.directory.user.readonly, https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.readonly
  10. Click Authorize.

 You should now see your specific Unique ID and the associate scopes listed.

Export mailboxes to CSV file(s)

From the Google Admin portal:

  1. Click Users.
  2. Click ⁝ (3 vertical dots).
  3. Download Users.
  4. Download All Users.
  5. Click OK.
  6. Save.

Prepare the Destination Environment

Prepare the destination environment by following the steps below:

  1. Create the SharePoint site and make a note of the site URL where the document libraries are stored.
  2. Create the document libraries on the destination SharePoint Online site (optional). To learn how to create it, follow the steps from Microsoft: Create your document library.
  3. Ensure all necessary users/groups (including external users, if any) are set up at the SharePoint site and available for your destination document library.

Application Permissions for SharePoint

Continue configuring your destination environment by selecting one of these application permissions options and following the steps to enable permission levels at the destination.

Delegated Authentication App-Based Authentication

The easiest approach is to use the global administrator account set up at the time of tenant creation. However, if you do not wish to use this global admin account during migration, then a new user account can be created instead. This user account needs to have a license assigned that includes SharePoint and be granted Site Collection Administrator privileges to the SharePoint site in the project.

  1. Create a user in Microsoft 365 and assign a license that includes SharePoint. For step-by-step instructions, see the Microsoft article Add users individually or in bulk to Office 365.

  2. Set the administration privileges. Grant one of the permission levels listed below to the user account to be user as the administrator for the endpoint in the project.

  3. Add the admin account, created in step 2, as a Site Collection Admin to the endpoint.

    Important

    The Global Admin or SharePoint Admin role does not automatically grant Site Collection Administrator rights to a SharePoint site.
  4. Go to MigrationWiz-SharePoint-Delegated and consent to the app access when prompted. Once you click on Accept, you will be redirected to the BitTitan login page. This is normal and the page can be closed.

MigrationWiz Steps

Create a Document Project

  1. Log in to MigrationWiz.
  2. Click the Go to My Projects button.
  3. Click the Create Project button.
  4. Select the Document project type. 
  5. Click Next Step.
  6. Enter a Project name and select a Customer.
  7. Click Next Step.
  8. Select endpoints or follow the steps below to create new endpoints. 

Endpoints

Endpoints are now created through MigrationWiz, rather than through MSPComplete. The steps for this section outline how to create the endpoints in MigrationWiz.

If you select an existing endpoint consider only ten endpoints are shown in the drop-down. If you have more than ten, you may need to search. Endpoint search is case and character-specific. For example, Cust0mer will not show up if the search is customer. We recommend keeping a list of endpoints you have created along with any unique spellings or capitalization you may have used.

You may either use existing endpoints or create new ones. 

Create a Source Endpoint

  1. Click Endpoints.
  2. Click Add Endpoint.
  3. Select Google Drive (Own Service Account). 

  4. Click Select File.

  5. Navigate to and select the JSON file containing the Google Service Account key saved during the service account setup process.

  6. Enter the Google super admin account email address. Please note that this admin email should match the end-user domain.

  7. Click Add Endpoint. 

Create a Destination Endpoint

  1. Click Endpoints.
  2. Click Add Endpoint.
  3. Select SharePoint.
  4. The URL to enter is for the site where the document library is located.
    Example: https://domain.sharepoint.com/sites/sitename
  5. Provide the requested information. Consider that you can only use numbers and lowercase letters for the destination endpoint when entering the Azure Storage Account Name. If you enter an upper case letter, your migration will fail.
  6. Click Add Endpoint. 

Add Users

Add the user accounts that will be migrated to the project. MigrationWiz allows you to bulk import users into the system. There are several ways to do this. 

Quick Add

This option allows you to add items one at a time. To do so, provide an email address if you entered administrative credentials when setting up the project. If you did not, enter the following user information:

  • An email address
  • Login name
  • Password
  • Mailbox status
Bulk Add

Bulk Add uses a CSV containing the source and destination email addresses for the users to add the users to the project. If migrating only a specific group from a tenant, we recommend using the Bulk Add option.

To import one or more mailboxes:

  1. Sign in to your MigrationWiz account.
  2. Select the Project for which you want to perform the bulk import.
  3. Click Add.
  4. Click Bulk Add.
  5. Follow the instructions on the page.
Autodiscover

​​The Autodiscover process within MigrationWiz helps discover items from the Source environment to be imported into your projects. To do so, you can edit the project to remove users not being migrated. All users are added with the source and destination email addresses set to match the source email.

This can be changed by using the Change Domain Name button at the top of the project page. If the usernames change during the migration, we recommend using the Bulk Add option.

There are a few requirements for this to work:

  • The Source has to be Exchange 2007 or later, Office 365, or G Suite. If you are using Autodiscover from G Suite, all G Suite domains must be added to the list of domains in the Endpoint.
  • The endpoint on the Source needs to use admin credentials.
  • The endpoint Administrator account on the source needs to be assigned the appropriate GSuite license for MigrationWiz to access Google Drive or Google Shared Drives for the Auto Discovery process.
  • The admin account specified within the Source endpoint must have a mailbox associated with the mailbox migration project.
  • The admin mailbox must be listed in the public Global Address List (GAL).
  • The migration project type needs to be a Mailbox migration. For the exact steps to be followed during your migration, refer to the relevant Migration Guide. All Migration Guides can be found on the Help Center site.
  • Autodiscover of items will not work while using Modern Authentication.

  • Autodiscovery exposes a list of all mailboxes at the Source.

Important

IP LockDown does not work with BitTitan Autodiscover using MigrationWiz. To add Users to the project, use Bulk Add via a CSV file or add them manually.

Steps to Run Autodiscover

  1. Navigate to the project you want to import users into.

  2. Ensure that you have created an endpoint for the source project.

  3. Once in the project, click the Add drop-down on the top navigation bar, then select Autodiscover Items. This will begin the Autodiscover process.

  4. Once discovered, click on the Import button, to import the items into your MigrationWiz project.

The site's full URL must be used for mailbox migration projects. 

In order to add a target SharePoint document library, only use the document library name without the path or sites. For example:

  • If the document library is named "Documents" and the URL is listed as "xxxxxx.sharepoint.com/sites/sitename/Documents"
    • Endpoint configuration SharePoint URL: xxxxxx.sharepoint.com/sites/sitename
    • Line item document library name: Documents 
  • If your document library is named "Documents" but the URL says "xxxxxx.sharepoint.com/sites/sitename/Shared%20Documents"
    • Endpoint configuration SharePoint URL: xxxxxx.sharepoint.com/sites/sitename
    • Line item document library name: Shared Documents
  • ‘/' characters are not supported in the destination library name. Attempting to migrate any destination library with a '/' character will result in a migration failure.

Advanced Options

The following advanced options show you some options that will help you to perform or complete a migration.

Support Tab

Consider that each Support Option includes the "=" character and is to be entered under the Support tab in the Support Options section.

Add additional blank fields for new Support Options by clicking the "+" button. In case you want to delete a field click the trash can icon.

Required Settings

  • DocumentBrowsingMode=FullCopy This option migrates items regardless of the owner of the folder. For more details, see the Google Drive Migrations FAQ article.

Optional Settings

  • InitializationTimeout=8 This increases the initialization timeout window to eight hours. This option is useful for large migrations.
  • IgnoreConflictingFiles=1 The project must have this added to the support options of the project to avoid duplicates. The one caveat with this is that if there is more than one file with the same name in the source Google Drive folders (which Google allows but not Microsoft) will be ignored as well.
  • UseGoogleAPIV2=1 This configuration avoids migrated items corruption and missing items issues. This is a default option.

Run Verify Credentials

  1. ​Sign in to your MigrationWiz account.
  2. Open the Project containing items to validate.
  3. Select the items to validate.
  4. Click on the Start button in your dashboard.
  5. Select Verify Credentials from the drop-down list.

Once complete, the results of the verification will be shown in the Status section.​ 

Notify Users

Notify users that a migration is occurring. Send an email to all users telling them the time and date of the migration.

Run Migration

Important

Unselect permissions before migrating. If permissions are left checked, this will result in errors during your migration, because permissions cannot be migrated for this scenario.

Pre-Stage pass

  1. Select the users to migrate.
  2. Click the Start button from the top.
  3. Select Pre-Stage Migration.
  4. Under the Migration Scheduling section, from the drop-down list, select 90 days ago.
  5. Click Start Migration.

Full pass

  1. Select the users.
  2. Click the Start button from the top.
  3. Select Full Migration.
  4. Click Start Migration.

Run Retry Errors

Look through the user list and click any red "failed migration" errors. Review the information and act accordingly.

If problems persist, contact Support.

Request Statistics

Click the pie chart icon in the MigrationWiz dashboard to receive an email containing all the project migration statistics.

Post-Migration 

  • To prevent users from inadvertently logging in and using their Google Drive accounts, decommission the Google Drive user accounts, or change their passwords.
  • 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.
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