1. Introduction
Is your company planning to migrate Dropbox files to SharePoint? As an IT admin, your responsibilities can include choosing the right migration service/tool, and completing the migration project quickly and securely.
Here is where CloudFuze can help. CloudFuze is a Dropbox to SharePoint migration tool that helps companies worldwide transfer data from Dropbox to SharePoint.
CloudFuze is a powerful and scalable cloud data migration tool that can migrate your company’s Dropbox data to Microsoft 365 (OneDrive for Business & SharePoint Online).
CloudFuze is one of the very few tools on the market that supports Dropbox to SharePoint migration besides OneDrive for Business.
If you don’t have time to go through the entire guide, directly get in touch with our migration team directly or watch the migration video:
2. Challenges in Business Migration
Every business is different, and so are the migration needs and the challenges that come with them. The challenges can be directly related to the company’s migration needs.
It’s also possible that the challenges may be linked to the company’s internal processes for risk assessment, commercials, on-boarding, and migration project initiation.
Here are some of the major challenges companies can face for Dropbox to SharePoint Online business migration:
Challenges | CloudFuze’s Solutions |
---|---|
Large number of users and terabytes/petabytes of data to migrate. | CloudFuze can migrate terabytes and petabytes of company data in batches to avoid disruption. |
Migrating sensitive company data. | CloudFuze uses secure protocols, including REST API and OAuth to ensure the most secure migration. |
Migrating Dropbox-specific features, e.g.: Dropbox Paper. | CloudFuze will migrate Dropbox Paper documents as Microsoft Word documents to SharePoint Online. |
Migrating timestamps of company data. | CloudFuze migrates all important data attributes that are integral to the company’s operational efficiency. |
SharePoint Online’s 400 characters limit in file path. | CloudFuze will trim long file paths to 350 characters. |
Limited access to company data in the source cloud during the migration. | CloudFuze performs the entire migration in background. Access to company data in the source cloud isn’t disrupted. |
Reflecting incremental changes on the destination cloud after the migration is completed. | CloudFuze offers incremental migration as per the client’s needs. |
3. Our Migration Platform’s Features:
- User-to-user data migrations
- Delta or incremental migration with zero downtime
- Root file, root folder, and subfolder permissions migration
- File version history migration
- Dropbox shared links migration
- Dropbox external shares migration
- File and folder timestamps migration
- Can be deployed in your own cloud, VM, or data center
- Dedicated migration manager and 24/7 premium support
- Migration project planning and assistance
5. Dropbox to SharePoint Migration – Frequently Asked Questions
1. Does CloudFuze migrate permissions from Dropbox to SharePoint?
Yes, CloudFuze migrates sharing permissions besides data. Learn more here.
2. What will be the speed of Dropbox to SharePoint Online migration?
Speed of migration depends on several factors such as the number of users, overall size of the data, the average size of the files in your company’s Dropbox account, folder structure, etc.
Our platform roughly migrates several TBs a week. Please keep in mind that the speed can be affected from the cloud providers’ side as they tend to throttle API calls at times.
3. How secure will our company’s data be?
Your company’s data is totally secure. CloudFuze uses OAuth and API calls to migrate data from Dropbox to SharePoint. Neither CloudFuze app nor its employees can access your company’s data.
4. Where can I read more about CloudFuze security?
Please go to CloudFuze’s security overview.
5. How much does it cost to migrate from Dropbox to SharePoint?
Pricing depends upon the number of users and the total size of data in your Dropbox account. Please contact us for pricing.
6. How to find our company’s Dropbox admin account?
A Dropbox admin has complete control over an organization’s data. Dropbox admin credentials are required to initiate the migration. Follow these steps if you do not know how to find the admin of a Dropbox account.
Step 1: Sign into your Dropbox account.
Step 2: Click on the “Admin console” on the left side of the page and it will redirect to members pane.
Step 3: Click on the “Members” tab where you can find the list of all users.
Scroll through the list until you find an account with Dropbox admin privileges. You can also go through this Dropbox Business guide.
7. How to find our company’s Microsoft 365/SharePoint Online admin account?
Step 1: Sign into your SharePoint Admin Portal
Select “Active users.” Once done, you can see the list of the users where you can add a user, delete, or even reset the password of a user.
Step 2: Select the Admin from Microsoft 365 Admin Center
Note: Office 365 global admin is the admin of SharePoint Online as well and those global admin privileges are required to add and authorize SharePoint Online.
By selecting a user, a pop-up will be displayed where you can see the role of the user, so the role must be a “Global Admin.”
8. How to migrate Dropbox content to a public SharePoint site?
In this example, Lewis content from the source will be migrated to the Lewis SharePoint Public site.
Step 1: In the source Cloud Id column, enter the source user email id.
Step 2: In the source, the path column mentions the folder name starting with the forward slash.
Step 3: In the Destination, the path enters the /Sitename/Documents (Note: D in the documents should be upper case).
Step 4: Save the CSV file before uploading it to make sure that all the entries are intact.
9. How to migrate Dropbox content to a private SharePoint site?
Lewis content from the source will be migrated to the Lewis SharePoint Private site.
Step 1: To migrate to any private site, the global admin of SharePoint should be a member of that site.
Step 2: The global admin should be the one that is used to authenticate the SharePoint cloud in the CloudFuze account.
10. How to migrate multiple Dropbox users’ content to one SharePoint site?
Step 1: In the source, Cloud Id column enter the source user email Id (ex:- lewis@cloudfuze.co).
Step 2: In the Source Path Column, mention the folder name starting with the forward slash.
Step 3: In the Destination Cloud Id, the column enters the destination email Id (ex:- steven@cloudfuze.co).
Step 4: In the destination path, enter the /Sitename/Documents (Note: D in the documents should be upper case).
Step 5: Create another mapping with a different user in the source Cloud Id and the folder name of that user in Source Path.
Step 6: Destination Cloud Id and Destination path remain the same as you are migrating from multiple users of Box folders to One SharePoint site of admin.CSV with multiple source accounts.
If you want to migrate to OneDrive instead, read our Dropbox to OneDrive migration guide.
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