How to Overcome Egnyte to SharePoint Migration Challenges?

Moving from Egnyte to SharePoint presents challenges businesses must navigate to ensure a smooth and successful transition. By addressing these challenges, companies can make informed decisions and ensure a successful transition.

In this blog post, we have provided insights to overcome all the challenges you are likely to face:

1. Unsupported Characters and Names

In SharePoint, special characters such as ” *: < >? / \ | ” are not supported in file or folder names. Additionally, specific terms are restricted in file or folder names, including. lock, CON, PRN, AUX, NUL, COM0 – COM9, LPT0 – LPT9, _vti_, desktop.ini, and any filename starting with ~$.

Our migration platform provides you with built-in feature that automatically replaces unsupported special characters with hyphens (-) or underscores (_) when you migrate Egnyte to SharePoint. In this way, our SharePoint migration tool guarantees a smooth and uninterrupted migration process while preserving data integrity.

2. File Path Limitation

The file path length in SharePoint is limited to 400 characters, and SharePoint server versions only support up to 260 characters for file and path lengths. If a file or folder path exceeds 400 characters, our advanced migration tool trims the extra characters to migrate data by overcoming this limitation.

3. Preserving Metadata

Manually preserving metadata can be challenging for enterprises with high-volume files. Preserving metadata such as permissions, shared links, timestamps, and versions is crucial during Egnyte to SharePoint migration.

With CloudFuze as your reliable cloud migration partner, you can ensure that your metadata is retained accurately along with complete data transfer from Egnyte to SharePoint.

4. Migrating Incremental Changes

Handling incremental changes during the Egnyte to SharePoint migration is a significant challenge. Our end-to-end full-service migration platform provides a highly efficient delta migration feature that allows you to sync the incremental changes accumulated during the one-time migration of each user batch.

As delta migration only moves the updated data, it’s faster than your one-time migration. So, you do not have to face any downtime issues during delta sync through our Office 365 migration tool.

5. Difference in Data Structure

Every Egnyte user needs to have their SharePoint account mapped correctly. Mapping your Egnyte account into the SharePoint platform requires proper planning. Enterprises can choose our tool’s auto-mapping feature for specific user mappings. Our tool automatically validates CSV mapping and indicates if you have accurately mapped using the correct syntax.

6. API Throttling

API throttling can occur when performing Egnyte to SharePoint migration. Transferring high-volume Egnyte files without a strategic approach can raise API throttling risks. This can lead to unexpected delays or longer migration duration. If you have PBs and TBs of Egnyte data, divide total users into several batches and transfer them during migration to reduce API throttling risks.

7. Security

As you move your company’s Egnyte data to SharePoint, you may encounter security risks. Before moving to the Microsoft SharePoint account, ensure that your business credentials and employee data are completely secure.

As a reliable cloud partner, we never ask you to share any of your credentials to migrate your files from Egnyte to SharePoint. For enhanced migration speed and performance, perform Egnyte to SharePoint migration through secured access using the OAuth 2.0 protocol and the RESTful API platform. For more details, check out our CloudFuze platform’s security measures.

Tips to Ensure Successful Egnyte to SharePoint Migration

Here are a few tips you can follow for a successful Egnyte to Google Drive migration:

• Perform a thorough pre-migration scan before moving from Egnyte.
• Use a trustworthy migration tool that migrates your high-volume Egnyte data and necessary metadata with proper mapping and preserved permissions.
• Run a pilot migration with a limited number of users.
• After the first batch is migrated, validate it using the migration reports and start the second batch migration.
• Ensure to perform a delta migration to sync the incremental changes.
• Monitor and validate through post-migration analysis after your Egnyte to Google Drive migration.

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Frequently Asked Questions

1. What is the best SharePoint migration tool?

At CloudFuze, we are a Microsoft Gold Partner providing business with enterprise-grade SharePoint migration tool. With our end-to-end cloud migration platform, you can transfer high-volume data and user accounts, metadata, and permissions with complete replication.

2. How do I export to SharePoint?

A manual approach can work for businesses with transfer of low volumes of Egnyte data. However, it can be highly challenging and error-prone for enterprises with high-volume data to manually export to SharePoint.

With 12+ years of experience and expertise in handling Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 migration projects, our teams at CloudFuze can help you export to SharePoint with 100% accuracy.

3. How to migrate access to SharePoint?

To migrate access to SharePoint, you can map and transfer user roles and permissions from the source cloud (like Egnyte) to SharePoint. Ensure file-level and folder-level permissions are mapped correctly to corresponding SharePoint roles. You can migrate user access and permissions using our migration tool with complete replication.