Pro Tips to Transfer Data from Egnyte to SharePoint Online

Properly structuring the process to transfer data from Egnyte to SharePoint Online goes a long way in ensuring complete success. And there are several ways to streamline the entire migration. Explore some of the pro-level tips to transfer users and data from Egnyte to SharePoint Online in this brief post:

1. Perform a Test Migration with a Pilot Batch

Performing a test migration before proceeding with the actual migration helps your team understand the process in the best way possible. The hands-on experience any test migration offers helps you prepare the migration strategy in a better way.

With a properly planned test migration, your team can also demo the migration tool in a close-to-real-world scenario, understand its capabilities, and proceed to the pre-migration assessment stage accordingly.

Prepare a pilot batch for the test migration that includes a couple of user accounts. You can configure the pilot user accounts with sharing permissions and access levels that replicate the actual sharing structure in your company’s Egnyte environment. This way, your team can put the test migration opportunity to the best use.

You can also get a sneak peek into the migration process with our Egnyte to SharePoint Online migration video that demonstrates all the steps of our tool:

2. Map Shared Data to Relevant SharePoint Online Sites

Unlike migrating to OneDrive, migrations to SharePoint Online from Egnyte and other cloud storages require a granular approach to point the data migration to specific Sites (libraries). To do this, map the user accounts to the relevant SharePoint Online sites with the CSV mapping method.

With this approach, your team can ensure proper segregation of the migrated user accounts and their data as per their teams or individual roles.

Learn more about CSV mapping in our User Mapping white paper.

3. Perform the Egnyte Data Migration in Batches

Another pro-level tip is to migrate the total number of users in batches. This approach makes it simple for your team to migrate the users and validate their migration, especially if your company has a high-volume of user accounts and TBs or even PBs of data to transfer from Egnyte to SharePoint Online.

Divide the total number of user accounts into several batches and migrate each batch one after another. This approach also helps your team lower API throttling risks. Or if you have a hard deadline to complete the entire migration on time, we suggest migrating the batches on dedicated instances.

Learn more about the benefits of performing cloud office migrations in a phased way.

4. Validate User Batches as And When They Are Migrated

Instead of validating the migration of all user accounts in a single go, we recommend validating each batch when they are migrated to SharePoint Online. This approach makes the validation process lightweight and removes complexities. Here’s a simple perspective: validating the migration of 100 users is simpler than validating 1000 users in a single sitting.

After the first batch’s migration is completed, validate it using the migration reports and initiate the second batch’s migration. This way, even if there are minor conflicts in the migration, your team can promptly bring it to our attention and resolve it before they build up to a significant number and create complexities.

Transfer Data from Egnyte to SharePoint Online in An Advanced Way

We can help you ace your company’s plan to migrate users and data from Egnyte to SharePoint Online with our industry-leading migration solutions. Request a price quote stating your migration needs and we will offer you the best proposal.