Why Businesses Need to Move Embedded Links During Data Migration
Similar to sharing permissions, in-line comments, and timestamps, embedded links are ubiquitous in the cloud data of most businesses. And businesses that prioritize operational efficiency do not overlook the ubiquity of embedded links when planning to migrate the source cloud data to the destination cloud.
This post explores all things embedded links migration: Why is it important? Why do most businesses do it? And how businesses can migrate different types of embedded links.
Why Is It Important for Businesses To Migrate Embedded Links?
Embedded links play a crucial role in improving file/folder accessibility and team collaboration. Most teams (end-users) collaborating on a cloud suite (e.g., Google Workspace) work with embedded links on a day-to-day basis for various requirements such as:
- Allowing easy access to certain files and folders for other collaborators
- Sharing a particular file or folder with document collaborators
- Consolidating files with links to other internal resources
Businesses must migrate such embedded links and retain them to ensure that the file/folder access and collaboration are not disrupted. In other words, migrating embedded links is as important as transferring sharing permissions, timestamps, in-line comments, and versions.
Many of our past customers migrating from Google Drive to OneDrive have transferred all the embedded links to ensure productivity continuity in the destination cloud.
How Businesses can Migrate Embedded Links
As part of migrating source cloud data along with permissions, metadata, in-line comments, and versions, businesses need to have the embedded links transferred to the destination cloud via a robust tool that automates the process.
CloudFuze leads the market in embedded links migration (one of the most complex segments in the cloud data migration market). CloudFuze accurately migrates different types of embedded links, including:
- Open ID links
- If condition links
- Shared links
1. Open ID Links
CloudFuze migrates Open ID embedded links and retains them in the destination cloud. In the example below, CloudFuze has migrated an Open ID link in a source Google Sheet (located in Google Drive) to a destination Microsoft Excel sheet (located in OneDrive for Business).
Note: Even though the migrated Open ID embedded link’s format and structure are the same in the destination cloud, it redirects to the relevant file/folder in Microsoft 365.
2. If Condition Links
CloudFuze migrates If Condition embedded links in a comprehensive way. In the example below, CloudFuze has migrated an If Condition link in a source Google Sheet (located in Google Drive) to a destination Microsoft Excel sheet (located in OneDrive for Business).
CloudFuze not only migrates If Condition Google links but also converts them into SharePoint format in OneDrive.
3. Shared Links
CloudFuze also migrates shared embedded links and retains them in the destination cloud. Here is an example showing the migration of shared embedded links from Google Drive to OneDrive for Business through CloudFuze.
Note: Even though the migrated Open ID embedded link’s format and structure are the same in the destination cloud, it redirects to the relevant file/folder in Microsoft 365.
Get in touch with our migration team to understand how CloudFuze can meet your business’s embedded links migration and overall data migration needs.
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