Moving from Egnyte to SharePoint Online? 5 Post-Migration Tips

Moving from Egnyte to SharePoint Online? Without the correct post-migration steps, there are possibilities of you running into missing data and broken links. Whether you’re an IT manager or a team lead leading the transfer, a solid post-migration helps you check whether your entire data set was successfully moved following your migration.

Here are five post-migration tips to follow when migrating Egnyte to SharePoint Online for a smooth and seamless experience.

1. Analyze and Validate Your Migrated Data

After migrating from Egnyte to SharePoint Online, ensure 100% replication of your files, folders, and metadata. Then, carefully review the contents of folder structures, files, and documents. Verify if the contents of hyperlinks, shared links, in-line comments, permissions, and external shares open without any issues, and that the contents are accurate and up to date.

Thoroughly, check if versions are accurate and also cross-check if critical metadata, such as timestamps and permissions, are intact.

2. Navigate to SharePoint Online with Confidence

Train your team members on the new SharePoint Online interface. While it may differ from Egnyte, it provides useful functionalities for your teams, such as real-time collaboration, version control, and document co-authoring.

Help your teams explore and understand how to navigate to the new cloud platform with confidence. Conduct training sessions where you can explain the features that can be helpful for your team. You can also create demos and provide a guide with screenshots and videos to compare Egnyte’s features with Microsoft SharePoint.

3. Use SharePoint Online’s Sync Feature

Egnyte users rely on the desktop sync feature to access files offline. SharePoint Online replicates this through OneDrive for Business, which lets your team sync SharePoint document libraries directly to their local devices.

Your team members can access and edit files offline, and OneDrive automatically syncs changes once they reconnect back online. You can also configure automatic syncing for specific folders. Doing so ensures that your teams have the latest files ready for offline work without manual intervention.

4. Adopt Real-time Collaboration

Real-time collaboration is one of SharePoint Online’s greatest assets. Similar to Egnyte, you can share documents with your team by uploading them to SharePoint. However, SharePoint takes it a step further by allowing multiple users to edit documents in Microsoft Office Online simultaneously.

This encourages teamwork and guarantees that everyone is working on the most recent version of a document. To keep everyone on the same page when editing in real-time, SharePoint also allows you to comment and @mention, which facilitates simple conversations and feedback within documents.

5. Set Permissions for File Access

With greater granularity, SharePoint Online provides similar permission features. By assigning document-level rights, you can ensure that only specific individuals can access particular files or directories.

Distributing permission settings across teams is made easier by SharePoint’s capability to control rights at the folder or library level. To maintain the same level of security and access control in Egnyte, ensure your teams are proficient in using SharePoint’s permission models.

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Migrate from Egnyte to SharePoint Online with CloudFuze

Moving from Egnyte to SharePoint Online is just one part of the journey, the other is to ensure proper post-migration integration and onboarding. You can follow the above tips for a seamless post-migration experience as you shift to SharePoint Online.

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Frequently Asked Questions

1. What is the best SharePoint migration tool?

CloudFuze provides the enterprise-grade SharePoint migration tool with which you can seamlessly migrate files, folders, metadata along with necessary permissions. By partnering with a reliable cloud migration partner, you can ensure a hassle-free transfer with complete replication.

2. What are the benefits of migrating to SharePoint online?

Migrating to SharePoint Online offers several benefits:

• Cost savings and efficiency
• Enhanced security and compliance
• Improved business continuity
• Scalability and flexibility
• Enhance team collaboration

3. Why switch to SharePoint?

SharePoint integrates seamlessly with other Office 365 applications like Teams, OneDrive, and Outlook, offering you a unified and productive work environment. With several benefits for your firm, you can switch to SharePoint by partnering with CloudFuze.