Google Shared Drive to SharePoint Migration for Enterprises
Planning and performing Google Shared Drives to SharePoint migration at an enterprise level requires IT teams to take a strategic approach. If you are on this journey, you can plan a lot better if you and your team are equipped with deep actionable insights.
And you are just in luck! We have shared such insights in this post; the insights are a culmination of our years of experience in helping large enterprises migrate successfully.
1. Choose a Tool That Supports Enterprise Scale Migrations
It all starts with choosing a migration tool that is purpose-built for large-scale enterprise migrations. Such tools are characterized by their ability to:
- Migrate TBs and PBs of shared data
- Scale up as per your large-scale migration needs
- Ensure a high level of security during the transition
- Accommodate specific customizations
- Ensure accurate replication of permissions, timestamps, and more
At CloudFuze, we provide enterprises with our industry-leading Google Shared Drives to SharePoint Online migration tool that makes a larger part of our Google Workspace to Microsoft 365 migration solution.
We have a track record of helping large enterprises as well as small and medium businesses adopt SharePoint Online and Microsoft 365 successfully with our strategic and advanced migration approaches. Here’s one such success story:
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2. Migrate Shared Drives to Specific SharePoint Online Sites
It is extremely important to migrate Shared Drives to corresponding Sites in SharePoint Online. Start off by mapping each shared drive to corresponding SharePoint site. You can do this in several ways:
| Examples of Shared Drives | Map to Corresponding SharePoint Sites | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Marketing Resources | Marketing Team | /sites/Marketing | Ideal for marketing document libraries |
| Sales Collaterals | Sales Team | /sites/Sales | Ideal for sales document libraries |
| HR Documents | HR | /sites/HR | Ideal for HR document libraries |
| QA and Testing Reports | Engineering/QA | /sites/QA | Ideal for Engineering/QA document libraries |
When creating these mappings in CSV files, our migration team can assist you and help ensure a high level of accuracy in the paths.
3. Prevent Hyperlinks from Breaking in SharePoint Online
Every Google Shared Drive to SharePoint migration is prone to breakage of hyperlinks (links embedded in files), especially in large-scale enterprise migration scenarios. Your IT team must be equipped with a tool to correct the links before they break in SharePoint Online post-migration.
One such dedicated tool is CloudFuze Hyperlink Fixer, an advanced hyperlink fixer that works in tandem with CloudFuze Migrate. In other words, it helps preserve hyperlinks as your Shared Drives and data get migrated to SharePoint.
4. Focus on Change Management to Avoid User Impact
The larger the scale of the Shared Drives to SharePoint migration, the higher the risk of significant user impact. Which is why focusing on change management is a must for large enterprises.
It involves taking several strategic steps, such as:
- Communicating and evangelizing users about the transition
- Providing extensive user training
- Tracking destination cloud adoption metrics and focus on improvement areas
5. Proper Post-Migration Integration Makes all the Difference
Lastly, many enterprises overlook the post-migration integration part, but it is key to making the most out of the migrated data. Apart from performing extensive validation of the migration, it also involves integrating the migrated data into corresponding libraries, third-party apps, and more.
At CloudFuze, we provide end-to-end support right from the pre-migration to post-migration stages. This helps ensure you do not go wrong in any area and make the migration accurate with resounding success!
Contact us to discuss more on how you can plan your enterprise’s Google Shared Drives to SharePoint Online migration in the most strategic ways!
You can also check out our migration tool in action!
Frequently Asked Questions
1. Which is the best Google Shared Drives to SharePoint migration tool?
CloudFuze Migrate is one of the best tool options for large enterprises as well as small and medium businesses to migrate shared data along with permissions, versions, timestamps, and more. The tool is one of the few in the industry to prevent hyperlinks from breaking in the destination cloud.
2. How to plan a large migration from Shared Drives to Microsoft 365?
The best way to plan a large migration from Shared Drives to various Microsoft 365 apps is to segregate the total number of users into several equal batches and migrate them batch-wise. This approach helps keep the migration lightweight and lowers API throttling risks.
3. Is there a tool to migrate all Google Workspace apps to Microsoft 365?
CloudFuze Migrate is an all-in-one tool to migrate all Google Workspace apps to Microsoft 365. It supports migration of chats, users, files and folders, emails, hyperlinks, calendars, and more.
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