Migration Global Settings

Before starting a migration, you can decide if you want, or not to migrate permissions, version history, and much more for Groups / Teams migration, you can also define how to handle duplicates.

Through the main menu, navigate to Files or Sites / Groups, then Global Settings.

                 

The selected options will be applied for every next migration and for all users.

Overview:

1. Global settings for Files migration
2. Global settings for Sites migration
3. Global settings for Groups/Teams migration

1. Files migration Global Settings

In the Files Migration Global Settings, there are two different windows:

1.1. Migration Management window

1. By default, Migrate permissions option is enabled. Migrate files and folders permissions shared with different users. You can disable it if you don’t want to migrate permissions.
2. By default, Migrate Version History option is disabled. Only the last 3 versions are migrated over. You can enable it to get all the history recordings in updating or content change of the files that are being migrated.

1.2. Duplicates Management window

1. When you choose the option “Ignore”:
   1. During the first pass, the files that already exist in the target will all be marked in error from Sharepoint saying “File with the same name already exists”
   2. To ignore these files, you need to rerun the migration. The migration tool will then push the files and will overwrite the files in the target. CAUTION: The migration needs to be run twice to be able to overwrite the files in the target.
2. When you choose the option “Overwrite”:
   1. During the first pass, the files that already exist in the target will all be marked in error from Sharepoint saying “File with the same name already exists”.
   2. To overwrite these files, you need to rerun the migration. The migration tool will then push the files and will overwrite the files in the target. CAUTION: The migration needs to be run twice to be able to overwrite the files in the target.
3. When you choose the option “Copy”:
   1. During the first pass, the files that already exist in the target will all be marked in error from Sharepoint saying “File with the same name already exists”.
   2. To push a copy of these files without overwriting the existing target files, you need to rerun the migration. The migration tool will then push the files appended with the word _old and will not overwrite the original target files. CAUTION: The migration needs to be run twice to be able to overwrite the files in the target.

2. Sites migration global settings

In the Sites Migration Global Settings, there are three different windows, with options:

2.1. Migration Management window

1. By default, Migration Permissions option is enabled. Migrate files and folders permissions shared with different users. You can disable it if you don’t want to migrate permissions.
2. By default, Migration TermStore option is enabled. You can disable it if you don’t want to migrate the termstore. For migration of Teams, the TermStore is unlikely to be modified and therefore the migration can remain disabled. This increases migration Speed.
3. By default, Migrate Version History option is disabled. Only the last 3 versions are migrated over. You can enable it to get all the history recordings in updating or content change of the files that are being migrated.

2.2. New Google Sites Migration Settings window

In this window we can choose where to migrate the new Google sites. By default is enabled to SharePoint.

2.3. Duplicates Management window

1. When you choose the option “Ignore”:
   1. During the first pass, the files that already exist in the target will all be marked in error from Sharepoint saying “File with the same name already exists”
   2. To ignore these files, you need to rerun the migration. The migration tool will then push the files and will overwrite the files in the target. CAUTION: The migration needs to be run twice to be able to overwrite the files in the target.
2. When you choose the option “Overwrite”:
   1. During the first pass, the files that already exist in the target will all be marked in error from Sharepoint saying “File with the same name already exists”.
   2. To overwrite these files, you need to rerun the migration. The migration tool will then push the files and will overwrite the files in the target. CAUTION: The migration needs to be run twice to be able to overwrite the files in the target.
3. When you choose the option “Copy”:
   1. During the first pass, the files that already exist in the target will all be marked in error from Sharepoint saying “File with the same name already exists”.
   2. To push a copy of these files without overwriting the existing target files, you need to rerun the migration. The migration tool will then push the files appended with the word _old and will not overwrite the original target files. CAUTION: The migration needs to be run twice to be able to overwrite the files in the target.

3. Groups/Teams migration global settings

In the Groups/Teams Migration Global Settings, there are two different windows, with options:

3.1. Migration Management window:

1. By default, Membership Migration option is enabled. You can disable it if you don’t want to migrate the memberships. Membership are the members of the associated group of the team.
2. By default, Conversation Migration option is enabled. You can disable it if you don’t want to migrate the conversations.
3. By default, Planner Migration option is enabled. You can disable it if you don’t want to migrate the planner.
4. By default, Mailbox Migration is enabled. You can disable it if you don’t want to migrate the mailboxes associated with the team.
5. By default, Mentions Migration option is enabled. You can disable it if you don’t want to migrate the mentions.
6. By default, Migration of TermStore option is disabled. You can enable it if you want to migrate the TermStore.
7. By default, Migration of Permissions option is enabled. Migrate files and folders permissions shared with different users. You can disable it if you don’t want to migrate permissions.
8. By default, Migration of SharePoint option is enabled. You can disable it if you don’t want to migrate the Sharepoint.
9. By default, Migrate Version History option is disabled. Only the last 3 versions are migrated over. You can enable it if you want to migrate the version history.

3.2. Duplicates management window:

1. When you choose the option “Ignore”:
   1. During the first pass, the files that already exist in the target will all be marked in error from Sharepoint saying “File with the same name already exists”
   2. To ignore these files, you need to rerun the migration. The migration tool will then push the files and will overwrite the files in the target. CAUTION: The migration needs to be run twice to be able to overwrite the files in the target.
2. When you choose the option “Overwrite”:
   1. During the first pass, the files that already exist in the target will all be marked in error from Sharepoint saying “File with the same name already exists”.
   2. To overwrite these files, you need to rerun the migration. The migration tool will then push the files and will overwrite the files in the target. CAUTION: The migration needs to be run twice to be able to overwrite the files in the target.
3. When you choose the option “Copy”:
   1. During the first pass, the files that already exist in the target will all be marked in error from Sharepoint saying “File with the same name already exists”.
   2. You need to rerun the migration to push a copy of these files without overwriting the existing target files. The migration tool will then push the files appended with the word _old and will not overwrite the original target files. CAUTION: The migration needs to be run twice to be able to overwrite the files in the target.