If you've chosen Office 365 for your organization
you may not be aware that Microsoft provides
a remote personalized assistance
for onboarding and migration via FastTrack.
Today, we'll take a look at a common need for migrating user file shares
from on-premise to OneDrive for Business and Office 365.
We will walk through how we can help you to
assess what you need and maybe not need to migrate
identify blockers to migration through our mediation process and tools.
Match user folders to user accounts in Office 365
and automate the migration process at scale.
Each organization is unique
but one thing we commonly see is that
many organizations give their users a central folder on a local server to store their files.
Let's take a look at an example of an organization.
You can see we have our list of users here
and let's pay attention, drill in on Alex Dean
you can see that he has a couple of folders with a couple of files.
And pay attention to the name of those files
because we'll be seeing those later on in the presentation.
Although this gives IT local control over the files
the dependency on devices and network
often cause users to sign up for consumer file-sharing services
to access their files from anywhere.
Migrating to Office 365 gives you the best of both worlds
with users securely accessing their files from any device
and you maintain information protection
with the ability to set specific policies.
For example you can set your permissions around external sharing
But how do you make that transition?
That's where FastTrack comes in.
We have captured the process and procedure over thousands of customers.
As part of the FastTrack engagement
we'll put an engineer in contact with you via phone
and online to guide you through the process.
We'll help you determine what makes most sense to migrate .
During the assess phase
we'll look at the data recently in use versus the data which hasn't been touched in a while.
When we do this we do not delete any of your data
but will help you prioritize the most relevant set of data to migrate first
we then provide you with tools and guidance to identify and remediate
technical issues in the way of your data migration.
Here is the tool that we provide you with
which scans and validates how ready the data is to be moved
you can see the target type where we're moving the data to
and the inventory of the readiness of the data.
Based on these results
we help you to determine which files to begin with
and help you schedule your migration in a relationship to users.
With a completed we now move into the migration.
this starts with making sure that the users whose data you are migrating
have accounts setup and services provisioned in Office 365.
As you can see here
we have all the accounts for the users that we saw in the file share
and they are enabled and they're ready to have their data moved.
Next we match the file share and locations
to user accounts via the CSV file that we would have helped you create
As you can see here it has the migration date
the migration window
the migration group and the names of the people in the group
and where you want to target the data.
Once you've got all the mappings completed
we can start executing against the CSV file you provide us.
This is the final phase of migrations
and it's a three-part approach
where we be upload CSV file
which then pre-loads the data into the tenant for you
and then the last step is us transitioning the data
on the scheduled time you noted in the CSV file.
The file shares for these users have been moved per the schedule
and their files are now in their one drive location on Office 365.
Now let's take a look at the results.
We're going to log into Alex Dean's profile
and see his files that were once on premise
on the file share server are now in his OneDrive.
He's going to be able to access these from anywhere
through his mobile devices or at remote locations.
You can see the docs there
and just like all his coworkers that we migrated over
he's now there in Office 365
So we've covered how we work with you every step of the way
when you migrate your data to Office 365
but we can also help you migrate emails and files
from various sources into Office 365.
With FastTrack
you can also get assistance for onboarding new users into Office 365
as well as other Microsoft Cloud services.
To find out more about FastTrack and to get started
you can go to fasttrack.microsoft.com
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