Box to OneDrive for Business File Transfer FAQs

When planning your company’s Box to OneDrive for Business file transfer, you may have several doubts. From technical uncertainties to process-related doubts, it is common to have a lot of questions, especially when planning the migration at a large enterprise scale.

In this article, we have listed some of the frequently asked questions on Box to OneDrive file and folder migration processes.

1. How to transfer files from Box to OneDrive for Business at a large scale?

Transferring files from Box to OneDrive at a large scale typically involves TBs (terabytes) and even PBs (petabytes) of data size, intricate sharing permissions, multiple file versions, several thousands of hyperlinks, and more.

To migrate your company’s entire Box storage files along with rich metadata, it is important to use a high-performance and reliable cloud migration tool like CloudFuze X-Change.

2. How to securely transfer Box files to OneDrive?

You can transfer Box files to OneDrive with optimal security using a cloud migration tool that implements the highest security standards, including:

  • OAuth-based cloud authentication
  • REST API-based data transfer
  • RSA 2048 encryption during migration
  • GDPR and ISO 27001 compliance

3. Will file permissions and sharing settings be preserved during Box to OneDrive migration?

Yes, you can preserve even the most intricate sharing permissions with the right Box to OneDrive migration tool. Our migration tool preserves the following sharing permissions:

Sharing Permissions Supported by CloudFuze X-Change
Root folder permissions Yes
Sub-folder permissions Yes
Root file permissions Yes
Inner file permissions Yes

4. How to migrate Box Notes to OneDrive for Business?

You can migrate Box Notes to OneDrive with a cloud migration tool that supports Box Notes migration, including ours. Our tool converts Box Notes files into the .docx format supported in Microsoft 365, including OneDrive for Business.

5. How to prepare for a Box to OneDrive for Business migration?

The best way to prepare is to perform an extensive pre-migration analysis and finalize the users, data, and rich metadata to migrate. Also, finalize other parameters, such as the timeline, number of delta migrations needed, the type of support needed, and more.

Informing users and high stakeholders about the migration also helps streamline communication and overall change management during the transition.

6. Can I continue using Box during the migration?

Yes, you can work on the Box cloud even when the migration is in progress. A cloud migration tool like ours performs the entire data transfer process in the background to avoid user impact and disruption on the ongoing operations.

The changes that accumulate during the one-time migration can then be migrated with one or more delta syncs.

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