Migrate Enterprise Box Data to OneDrive Using CloudFuze

If you are planning to migrate enterprise Box to OneDrive using CloudFuze, there are several important factors to consider.

In this brief guide, we have listed some of the best practices that can help your company migrate a large volume of users and data from enterprise Box licenses without facing any issues.

Key Takeaways:

  • To migrate large-sized Box enterprise data to OneDrive, using enterprise-grade dedicated instances in a must.
  • De-duplicate files and folders before migrating to optimize the migration workload.
  • Having sufficient API calls is important to transfer large volumes of Box data.
  • Migrating a high volume of users in batches is the best practice to follow.
  • Make sure to validate all the migrated data to confirm migration accuracy.

1. Use Enterprise-Grade Instances

One of the most important aspects of migrating Box data to OneDrive at a large enterprise scale is using dedicated enterprise-grade instances.

It goes without saying that the performance of any Box to OneDrive migration tool is determined by the instances used.

Dedicated enterprise servers with high-performance configurations enable the migration tool to transfer large streams of data while maintaining consistent throughput.

At CloudFuze, we offer our migration solutions with enterprise-grade instances to enable our customers to migrate enterprise Box data to OneDrive without any downtime.

Note: Customers can check the pricing agreement to learn what specific type of enterprise instances will be used in the migration project.

2. De-Duplicate Data Before Migrating

One of the most important factors that is often missed out is de-duplicating data. In most cases, businesses often have multiple duplicates of many files which create redundancy and increase migration workload.

To optimize the migration workload, you can identify duplicates in your Box environment and delete them. This, in turn, helps lower the total size of data to migrate.

Our team at CloudFuze can help you perform a comprehensive pre-migration analysis to identify duplicate files and delete them.

3. Ensure Ample Availability of API Calls

One of the core requirements of migrating large data sizes from Box to Microsoft 365 is having sufficient API calls. Make sure that your company has sufficient API calls in Box as well as OneDrive licenses.

If you are not sure on how to do this, our team can help you. Based on the size of data and the number of users you want to migrate, our team can also suggest whether the available API calls are sufficient.

4. Migrate Users in Batches

Large enterprises that have several thousands of users to migrate generally opt for the batched approach which involves migrating users in batches. We also recommend doing the same if you have a lot of users to migrate.

Our team can help you create several user batches and migrate them in this strategic sequence:

  1. One-time migration of User Batch 1
  2. One-time migration validation of User Batch 1
  3. Delta migration of User Batch 1
  4. Delta migration validation of User Batch 1
  5. One-time migration of User Batch 2
  6. One-time migration validation of User Batch 2
  7. Delta migration of User Batch 2
  8. Delta migration validation of User Batch 2

5. Validate with Migration Reports

When migrating Box data to OneDrive at a large enterprise scale, validating to ensure the migration is completed successfully is extremely important. To validate properly, checking migration reports is a must!

Our migration tool has robust reporting features that can help you perform accurate validation of the migration of each user batch.

Learn more about our tool’s robust migration reporting features to understand the various types of migration reports out tool generates.

Migrate Enterprise Box Data to OneDrive Using CloudFuze

Move all your enterprise Box data to OneDrive smoothly with CloudFuze Migrate. We have proven success in helping large enterprises move data from Box to OneDrive successfully, with optimal security.

Contact us today for a free and no-obligation demo of our migration tool.

Learn about our Box to OneDrive migration process:

Frequently Asked Questions

1. How to use CloudFuze to migrate Box to OneDrive?

Use CloudFuze’s proven migration tool, CloudFuze Migrate, to transfer terabytes and petabytes of data from Box to OneDrive and SharePoint Online.

The tool helps you preserve permissions, embedded links, timestamps, version history, external shares, shared links, and in-line comments.

2. Which is the best Box to OneDrive migration tool?

CloudFuze Migrate is one of the best Box to OneDrive migration tools as many companies, such as Warner Bros. Discovery, London Gatwick Airport, Adenza, etc., have relied on it for migrating a high volume of users and data.

3. How to migrate enterprise Box Cloud?

First understand what you need to migrate from your company’s enterprise Box cloud; then prepare a scope of work. Once it is finalized, map users and create user batches.

Then run a pilot migration before starting the actual migration and validate it. If everything looks good, start the one-time migration, then delta migration followed by validation.

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