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Concept
Moving content from file shares, other cloud services or older SharePoint Server versions into SharePoint and OneDrive in Microsoft 365. The content is copied; the source files are not deleted.
Description
Microsoft Learn describes SharePoint migration as moving content into Microsoft 365, meaning SharePoint and OneDrive. It stresses that migrating copies the files: "Your source files are not deleted."
Tools named by Microsoft: the Migration Manager in the SharePoint admin center for sources such as Box, Dropbox, Google Workspace, Egnyte and file shares, and the SharePoint Migration Tool (SPMT) for SharePoint Server 2010, 2013 and 2016, including classic workflows and classic pages. The page says that the Mover tool is retired for admin-led migrations. For large amounts of data over a limited network connection, Microsoft names Azure Data Box. Classic SharePoint Server workflows should be rebuilt as Power Automate flows. A role called Migration Administrator lets a migration team work without full SharePoint admin access. At the time of checking, moving OneDrive content between tenants was possible with PowerShell, and a cross-tenant SharePoint solution was in private preview.
Third-party tools exist as well, for example ShareGate. Moving between two Microsoft 365 tenants is a separate topic, see tenant-to-tenant migration.
Sources (Microsoft Learn, checked in November 2026): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointmigration/migrate-to-sharepoint-online
| Type | Concept |
|---|---|
| Also known as | SharePoint-Migration |
| Documentation | learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointmigration/migrate-to-sharepoint-online |
Articles about SharePoint migration (4)
- Розморожуємо середовище: усунення типових вузьких місць SharePoint
· Mirko Peters
Раді знову вітати вас у блозі нашого подкасту! Якщо ви хоч раз дивилися на крутиться індикатор очікування на екрані, поки намагалися відкрити внутрішній документ, то знаєте, наскіл - Подолання типових труднощів міграції в SharePoint
· Mirko Peters
Ласкаво просимо назад до подкасту! Якщо ви слухали наші останні випуски, то знаєте, що ми багато говоримо про те, як максимально використати свій цифровий робочий простір. Сьогодні - Unfreeze Your Environment: Troubleshooting Common SharePoint Bottlenecks
· Mirko Peters
Welcome back to the podcast blog! If you have ever stared at a spinning wheel on your monitor while trying to access an internal document, you know the soul-crushin… - Overcoming Common Migration Challenges in SharePoint
· Mirko Peters
Welcome back to the podcast! If you have been listening to our recent episodes, you know we spend a lot of time talking about how to get the absolute most out of yo…
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- Migration cutover · Concept
- Migration coexistence · Concept
- ShareGate · Organization
- OneDrive · Product
- Power Automate · Product
- Cognillo · Organization
- SharePoint Essentials Toolkit · Product
- Broken links in SharePoint · Concept
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- Documentation: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointmigration/migrate-to-sharepoint-online
- Feed for this topic (RSS): entity/sharepoint-migration/feed.xml
- Articles on this topic: 4
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