Migrate Permissions and Sharing Settings with CloudFuze

When migrating users and data from one cloud platform to another, permissions and sharing settings are one of the most important metadata types to preserve. At CloudFuze, we make it seamless and secure for businesses to migrate permissions and sharing settings for files and folders of all sizes and complexities.

In this article, we have shared how you can migrate sharing permissions with CloudFuze Migrate (formerly CloudFuze X-Change).

Why Is it Important for Businesses to Migrate Permissions?

It is through permissions and sharing settings that users can access files and folders with certain privileges. And it goes without saying that sharing permissions in files and folders are critical to seamless collaboration between individual users and teams.

Failing to preserve sharing permissions and settings during cloud migration impacts users as they lose access and their role-specific privileges to the files and folders they collaborate on.

What is the Best Way to Migrate Permissions and Sharing Settings?

The best way to migrate sharing permissions and settings is to use a professional cloud migration tool like CloudFuze Migrate. Our migration tool automates the process of preserving sharing permissions of each file and folder. This way, permissions of terabytes and even petabytes of files and folders are migrated with 100% accuracy!

Manual migration approaches are not useful for migrating sharing permissions in bulk. Also, manually recreating permission in each file and folder post-migration is next to impossible.

Can I Migrate Permissions and Sharing Settings with CloudFuze?

Yes, with CloudFuze Migrate, you can accurately preserve all types of sharing permissions in the destination cloud platform, including:

• Editing permissions
• Viewing permissions
• Contributor permissions
• Moderator permissions

We also migrate sharing permissions of files and folders of all levels of hierarchies, including:

• Root folder permissions
• Sub-folder permissions
• Root file permissions
• Inner file permissions

Process of Migrating Permissions and Sharing Settings with CloudFuze

Sharing permissions migration functionalities are baked into our tool which makes the process simple for IT teams. When you configure any cloud migration in our tool, you get an option to choose sharing permissions along with other types of metadata.

Make sure to select it so that our tool migrates them. Here’s a screenshot to help you with:

Here’s an example of Box to OneDrive migration. The below screenshot shows sharing permissions in Box. Note that these are owner and editor permissions.

And here’s another screenshot showing Box permissions migrated to OneDrive. All three sharing permissions have been retained accurately.

What do Customers Say About Us?

At CloudFuze, we have helped many businesses migrate their cloud data along with permissions and other critical metadata. Here’s one Gartner review that highlights our permissions migration capability.

As per the review, the customer needed to migrate data along with permissions to SharePoint and were able to do it with our migration tool. They also found our flexibility to quickly adapt to changes in plans highly valuable.

Replicate Permissions Accurately in Migrations of Any Size with CloudFuze

Leverage our industry-leading cloud migration solutions to migrate your company’s entire cloud data with permissions intact! You also get complete handholding throughout the entire migration journey with our managed migration service.

Contact us today for a detailed demo tailored to your migration needs!

You can also watch our migration tool’s overview video here:

Frequently Asked Questions

1. How to migrate file and folder sharing permissions?

Using a dedicated cloud migration tool (with proven success) like CloudFuze Migrate is the best way to migrate sharing permissions of a high volume of file and folders.

2. What permissions are important to migrate?

Ideally, all types of sharing permissions are important to migrate, including editing permissions, viewing permissions, and more. Also, it is important to migrate permissions of files and folders of all hierarchy levels.

3. Is CloudFuze a good option for migrating permissions and sharing settings?

Yes. CloudFuze Migrate is one of the best options in the industry to migrate permissions and sharing settings in bulk. You can retain all types of permissions accurately by using the migration tool.