Walkthrough - Migrating OneDrive for Business to OneDrive for Business with PowerShell

Use PowerShell to automate your OneDrive for Business to OneDrive for Business migration.

Index

• Prerequisites
• Create a CSV guide for your migration
• Create your script

Prerequisites

• Global administrator or SharePoint administrator permissions are required in the source and destination.

• Your OneDrives have been provisioned.

  • This can be automated with the Get-OneDriveURL cmdlet.

Note: You need to be site collection admin on each OneDrive, even if you have higher admin privileges. You can use SharePoint admin or global admin permissions to apply site collection permissions to all your OneDrives and then remove the site collection admin permissions as you migrate each OneDrive.

Create a CSV guide for your migration

1. Go to All reports.
2. Click on Create custom report in the top right corner.
3. Select OneDrive for Business  as your object type.
4. Click Continue without saving.
5. Select your source Tenant.
6. Click on Run.
7. Select all your OneDrives with the checkmark box at top of the list.
8. Click Edit  in the quick actions menu.
9. Select Add administrators in the Transformations dropdown.
10. Search and add your account in the Select user or group field that appears.
11. Click Apply.
12. Click Back two times to go back to your report results.
13. Click on Export in the top right corner.
14. Save the file on your drive.
15. Repeat steps (1) to (14), selecting your destination tenant at step (5).
16. Open Excel.
17. Add titles SourceSite and DestinationSite to the first two columns.
18. Open the two files you saved on step (8).
19. Combine the data from both the files into the new document so that the source URL corresponds to the destination URL under their respective column.
    
    Note: If sorting alphabetically doesn't work, you can reorganize your data manually or you can look for a solution with Excel macros or PowerShell.
20. Save this new file as a CSV on your drive.

Create your script

Copy and paste the following script in the PowerShell application of your choice.

Import-Module Sharegate
$csvFile = "C:\CSV\CopyContent.csv"
$table = Import-Csv $csvFile -Delimiter ","

$srcUsername = "sourceusername"
$srcPassword = ConvertTo-SecureString "sourcepassword" -AsPlainText -Force

$dstUsername = "destinationusername"
$dstPassword = ConvertTo-SecureString "destinationpassword" -AsPlainText -Force

Set-Variable srcSite, dstSite, srcList, dstList
foreach ($row in $table) {
    Clear-Variable srcSite
    Clear-Variable dstSite
    Clear-Variable srcList
    Clear-Variable dstList
    $srcSite = Connect-Site -Url $row.SourceSite -Username $srcUsername -Password $srcPassword
    $dstSite = Connect-Site -Url $row.DestinationSite -Username $dstUsername -Password $dstPassword
    $srcList = Get-List -Site $srcSite -Name "Documents"
    $dstList = Get-List -Site $dstSite -Name "Documents"
    Copy-Content -SourceList $srcList -DestinationList $dstList
    Remove-SiteCollectionAdministrator -Site $srcSite
    Remove-SiteCollectionAdministrator -Site $dstSite
}

Adjust your script so that it will work for you. Here are a few guidelines:

• $csvFile: Adjust the path so that it points to the CSV file you saved before.
• $table: The delimiter is the symbol your CSV uses to separate your items in a row. Make sure your script uses the same delimiter as your file (a quick way to verify this, is by opening the CSV with Notepad).
• $srcUsername, $srcPassword, $dstUsername, and $dstPassword: Replace "sourceusername", "sourcepassword", "destinationusername", and "destinationpassword" by your matching Microsoft 365 credentials.
• Connect-Site: If you need to change the authentication method, you will find how to do it in the Connect Site article.
• Set-variable and Clear-Variable: These commands help prevent an issue where a connection failure can cause your data to end up in the wrong OneDrive. If you have to use the browser connection method, you will have to remove these lines.
• foreach: We use foreach to loop through the values in your CSV file. You can find more about it here.
• Remove-SiteCollectionAdministrator: Removes your user account as site collection administrator on the OneDrive after its migration.

Run your script once it's properly adjusted and tested.