How To Migrate Contents To OneDrive For Business In Office 365?

What Is OneDrive for Business?

OneDrive for Business is an integral part of Office 365 or SharePoint Server, and provides place in the cloud where you can store, share, and sync your work files.

OneDrive for Business is online storage intended for business purposes. Your OneDrive for Business is managed by your organization and lets you share and collaborate on work documents with co-workers. Site collection administrators in your organization control what you can do in the library.

The migration of contents from your personal drive to the OneDrive for Business can be easily done by Dockit.

Want to migrate contents to multiple users to OneDrive for Business?
If yes, Dockit is the perfect solution.

The Dockit 9x does have the feature ‘Migrate Content to OneDrive for Business’, a step towards a solution to import folders and files from the user’s personal drive (along with its metadata) into the user’s OneDrive locations.

The following task wizards navigating a comfortable and easy journey via live Explorer and Batch file mode.

Explorer Mode:

Select ‘Explorer Mode’ from the ‘Migrate contents to OneDrive for Business’ task option.

Explorer Mode

To migrate contents of multiple users’ personal drive to their respective OneDrive for Business location in a single migration task, chooseAll users in the personal site collection’.

Enumerate personal sites of all users

And provide the following information:

  1. Admin Center URL -> Tenant admin center URL
  2. Authentication -> The Federated authentication can sign in on the fly

Sign into office 365

Sign in to office 365

Explore Contents:

In ‘Items to Import’ step, click ‘Browse…’ button.

Items to import

Let’s add contents to multiple users:

Select items to import

Select folders and files to import

Proceed with the remaining steps, save the task and execute the task. Once the migration is complete, you will notice the corresponding contents in the respective OneDrive locations as shown below:

Alex Darrow’s OneDrive for Business location

Alex darow onedrive for business location

Allie Bellew’s OneDrive for Business location

Allie Bellew’s OneDrive for Business location

Janet Schorr’s OneDrive for Business location

Janet Schorr’s OneDrive for Business location

Pavel Bansky’s OneDrive for Business location

Pavel Bansky’s OneDrive for Business location

Batch file Mode:

To migrate contents for multiple users to their respective OneDrive for Business locations, prepare a batch file for multiple users as shown in the sample below. Provide the batch file in the batch file mode and proceed with the subsequent steps as stated above and execute the migration task.

Batch File Mode