How to Migrate Everything to OneDrive from Box

When it comes to migrating everything from Box to OneDrive, you must plan the roadmap strategically. From finalizing the scope of work to ensuring proper validation, every step demands proper planning and smooth execution.

In this article, we have shared deep insights into the process of migrating all users and data from Box to OneDrive.

Why Migrate Everything to OneDrive?

Many businesses need to migrate everything to OneDrive depending on their use cases, such as:

• Consolidations
• Mergers and acquisitions
• License structure simplification
• Cost-savings
• Cloud governance

By strategically migrating into OneDrive and the overall Microsoft 365 suite, businesses can consolidate everything under a single cloud ecosystem and benefit from productivity gains.

How to Migrate Everything to OneDrive?

Here are some of the advanced approaches to migrate everything from Box to OneDrive:

Perform a Pre-Migration Assessment

The first important step to migrating everything is to plan properly. And the foundation of proper planning is performing a thorough pre-migration assessment of your current cloud platform.
While assessing your current cloud platform, make sure you identify the data sets and folders you want to transfer. This will not only help you prioritize crucial data that needs to be transferred first but also help you understand the scale of the operation. This, in turn, helps you decide the capacity of the tool you choose, the resources you need to allocate, and the duration the migration process will take.

Choose the Right Cloud Migration Tool

The next step to migrating from Box Business to OneDrive is to choose the right cloud migration tool. Factor in various mission-critical parameters such as:

• Capabilities to migrate thousands of users
• Capabilities to migrate TBs and PBs of data
• Enterprise-grade security and compliance
• Preservation of rich metadata
• Migration of hyperlinks (links embedded in files)
• Accurate conversion of file formats
• Encryption of data during migration

Our one-stop cloud migration solution, CloudFuze Migrate (formerly CloudFuze X-Change), provides industry-leading migration capabilities with enterprise-grade security. Here’s a quick look at our tool’s capabilities:

Migration Steps

In most cases, migrating everything from Box to OneDrive for Business involves migrating several thousands of users and terabytes and even petabytes of data. Therefore, it’s highly important to understand the steps involved.
Here are the main steps of migrating using CloudFuze Migrate:

Post-Migration Essentials

Once you’ve completed migrating everything from Box to OneDrive, make sure all the data you wanted has been transferred flawlessly. Any missing datasets and files need to be checked for and corrected right away.
The best way to validate the migration is to check the data migration reports. Check for key parameters like:

• The number of users migrated
• The total size and number of files and folders migrated
• The types of metadata migrated
• The time taken to migrate
• Start and end dates of migration of each batch
• Conflict status (if any)

Once you’ve double-checked that you’ve replicated Box in OneDrive, you also need to check if the new storage in OneDrive is accessible, and that the user permissions are distributed accordingly. It’s also important to schedule post-migration training to enable users to adopt the new cloud platform seamlessly and securely.
It might be prudent to wait for a week or so to decommission your Box account. This gives you some time to train users and retrieve data until you’re sure the migration has been 100% successful. Remember to plan the process exhaustively, as this is crucial to optimizing OneDrive and enhancing overall organizational productivity.

Migrate Everything from Box to OneDrive with CloudFuze

At CloudFuze, we specialize in migrating high volumes of users and data while ensuring highly accurate replication of folder structures, user roles, and metadata.
Connect with us today to demo our solutions and understand our methodologies.

What Do Customers Say About Us?

Here’s one of our Gartner reviews that highlights the success story we have helped one of our customers create. As per the review, the customer found our migration solution to be reasonably priced. They were also pleased with our smooth solution implementation and the fact that we helped them complete the migration ahead of schedule.

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Frequently Asked Questions

1. How to migrate from Box to OneDrive?

You must plan the migration as per your company’s goals and use cases. Then, choose a cloud migration tool that supports your company’s entire migration needs. Test the migration tool before onboarding it. Equally important is to ensure that the tool guarantees enterprise-grade security and compliance.

2. What is the best tool for Box to OneDrive migration?

CloudFuze Migrate is one of the best tools for migrating complex and sensitive business data from Box to OneDrive. By using the tool, you can migrate high volumes of data, complex metadata, hyperlinks, and more.

3. How to migrate to OneDrive securely?

You can securely migrate Box data to OneDrive with an enterprise-grade cloud migration tool like CloudFuze Migrate. With CloudFuze Migrate, you get RSA 2048 data encryption during migration, OAuth-based cloud authentication, and GDPR, SOC 2 Type 2, and ISO 27001 compliance.