SharePoint – Migrations without 3rd party tools … soon

This week at Ignite 2017 a new Migration tool was announced by Microsoft. Do you have file shares or SharePoint on-premises that you want to migrate to Office 365? It’s now an easy job! Well at least a cheap job. No need for licenses for 3rd party tools.

In this post I will go through to options available within this tool.

The SharePoint Migration Tool can be downloaded here:

https://spmt.sharepointonline.com/install/default.htm

Click on I agree…. (Don’t forget to read the Terms first of course!)

The above dialog might look like a place to click on Select a source, Choose a destination, but it is not! Just click on next.

Then you will get a login dialog:

This is where you need to supply your Office 365 credentials needed to import the data.

Time to select the source of your data:

 In this example I’m going to import data from a File Share

Now all i have to do is select my destination

And My migration can start after I have selected my destination

After clicking on the Migrate button all the magic starts:

In my case I’ve got 1 document in my file share and migrating this took 15 seconds:

Hmm, my document didn’t get migrated. Ok, this is only version 0.2.60.0 of the tool. But at least it gives us a bit of an idea where Microsoft is heading with migrations.

I looked in the logs and I found:

My document library used the url: …../Shared%20Documents/… not Documents. Hmm, the tool uses the Title of the library rather than the Url!

So I created a new document Library called DocLib:

My migration starts again but I’m still getting the same error.

 Time to look at settings. Well this is a bit difficult. The settings only appear when you create a new migration task. So once you’ve restarted the application create a new task and then the settings are there:

Well not much there to play with that could possibly affect the scan failure. Time to wait for the next release of the pre-preview tool.

 More information

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Introducing-the-SharePoint-Migration-Tool-9c38f5df-300b-4adc-8fac-648d0215b5f7

Pieter Veenstra

Is your business still running on paper trails, sprawling Excel files, or ageing Access databases? There's a better way — and I can show you exactly what it looks like. I'm the Technical Director of Vantage 365, a Microsoft solutions consultancy working with clients across the UK, the Netherlands, and worldwide. For over 30 years I've been turning messy, manual business processes into clean, automated systems that save time, reduce errors, and give teams the visibility they need to make better decisions. You can contact me using contact@sharepains.com