Challenges While Switching from Dropbox To Microsoft 365

Planning to migrate from Dropbox to SharePoint or Dropbox to OneDrive? You are likely to face challenges that you must navigate to ensure a smooth transfer. By managing challenges, you can make informed decisions and ensure a successful transition. In this blog post, we have provided insights to overcome the challenges you are likely to face while switching from Dropbox To Microsoft 365.

1. Migration Within Limited Timeframe

Consider a case where an enterprise is about to face with expiration of Dropbox licenses. In such a case, firms have to quickly transfer their Dropbox data to an alternative cloud storage platform.

Enterprises can plan to implement Dropbox to Microsoft 365 migration with a reliable service provider to perform migration within a limited time period. A well-executed migration also ensures smooth users transition to Microsoft 365 without productivity loss.

2. Permission Inheritance Issues

Migrating high volume files and folders of TBs and PBs in size in SharePoint Online can be challenging. This means that the Dropbox permissions may not be reflected accurately in SharePoint platform. This, in turn, would raise the risk of inefficient access management and organization of their data.

To address the issue of permission inheritance, you can migrate all the Dropbox sub-folders and the data (nested folders and files) inside them directly to SharePoint Online without creating any primary root folder.

Case Study Highlight: REHAU, a global leader in polymer solutions faced permission inheritance issues and limited timeframe constraints when switching from Dropbox to Microsoft 365. Our cloud migration team helped our client overcome the mentioned challenges with no downtime. As a result, our client was able to transfer high-volume Dropbox data with complete replication.

3. Transferring Metadata

One of the most common challenges when switching from Dropbox to Microsoft 365 is ensuring data integrity and complete replication after migration. Manual methods can fail to transfer crucial metadata, like versions, external shares, and shared links. Our advanced cloud migration tool helps you ensure full-fidelity migration of Dropbox data along with essential metadata.

Features Supported By Our Migration Tool for Dropbox To OneDrive And SharePoint Migration:

4. Ensuring Security and Compliance

Ensuring enterprise-grade security along with compliance is necessary when you are switching from Dropbox to Microsoft 365. Failure to maintain security and compliance standards can lead to:

• Leakage of Dropbox data in external networks
• Exposure of highly sensitive data to unauthorized access

We are a Microsoft Gold Partner who can help you transfer Dropbox to Microsoft 365 under enterprise-grade security measures. Our teams follow advanced security measures, such as OAuth 2.0 cloud authentication, ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type 2, and GDPR compliance.

Additionally, we use cutting-edge security functionalities to eliminate the possibility of data breaches throughout the migration process. For full transparency in its security procedures, we refrain from storing user data during the migration in any format. Learn more about our security

5. Resolving Unsupported Characters

There are restrictions and limitations in OneDrive and SharePoint. When trying to migrate files and folders from Dropbox to SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business that include unsupported special characters, IT teams may encounter data transfer conflicts.

And since removing these unsupported characters from TBs or PBs of data manually is not feasible, businesses must look forward to an advanced approach to tackle this challenge. Our tool has a built-in function to automatically replace unsupported characters with a hyphen (-) or an underscore (_). Our migration tool identifies Dropbox cloud files and folders with unsupported names and transfers them as _CON to SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business.

6. Managing Incremental Changes

The time it takes to import Dropbox to Microsoft 365 depends on the number of users, volume of data, and other factors. It is critical to migrate updated content, as users will continue to use Dropbox. The best way to migrate incremental changes is through an effective delta migration.

Choosing a discrete migration tool helps you sync the incremental changes accumulated during the one-time migration of each user batch. Our fully scalable migration tool can seamlessly handle incremental changes during unlimited delta migration with no downtime.

7. API Throttling

Large files of TBs and PBs can be challenging to migrate without a strategic approach. It can raise API throttling risks during file transfer from Dropbox to OneDrive/SharePoint. Managing API throttling is necessary to avoid disruption in business operations. CloudFuze’s built-in function automatically identifies when API usage is reaching a throttling point.

Here’s an overview of our tool performing Dropbox to OneDrive migration:

CloudFuze’s Real World Case Study – Dropbox to OneDrive Migration

Michigan State University wanted to migrate its business data from Dropbox to OneDrive and SharePoint Online. Our teams at CloudFuze helped Michigan State University migrate 1,000+ users and 50+TB of data, along with important metadata such as sharing permissions, internal and external shares, shared links, in-line comments, and version history. Learn more about this case study here.

Tackle Challenges of Switching Dropbox To Microsoft 365 with CloudFuze

Switching from Dropbox to Microsoft is made simpler with no disruptions and complete replication with CloudFuze. With 12+ years of experience in cloud migration, we have empowered clients with end-to-end migration services and helped them achieve 100% success.

Connect with us for a free consultation for your migration, or request a quote today!

Frequently Added Questions

1. How do I migrate from Dropbox?

For small volume of Dropbox data, you can manually download files and then re-upload to new cloud service. In case of high-volume Dropbox data, you can migrate using a reliable third-party cloud service provider like CloudFuze. With us, you can seamlessly migrate Dropbox data, Dropbox Papers, metadata.

2. Can I move files from Dropbox to OneDrive?

Yes, you can move files from Dropbox to OneDrive. The best way to transfer Dropbox to OneDrive is through choosing an advanced cloud migration tool. CloudFuze Migrate is one of the best tools to migrate from Google Drive to Microsoft OneDrive. You can transfer Dropbox data along with necessary features such as timestamps, permissions, hyperlinks, external shares.

3. Where do deleted Dropbox files go?

You can retrieve your deleted Dropbox files by following these steps:

• Open Dropbox and log in.
• In the sidebar on the left, select Deleted files.
• You can recover deleted files or folders by clicking on their names.
• By using the checkbox icon, you can pick more than one file or folder at once.
• Select “Restore.”