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Permission Levels (Best Practices)

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Follow this chart to see the required or recommended permissions for certain actions: 

Permission Levels

  
Site Collection Administrator
  • Recommended for all procedures in Management and Migration.
  • Needed for OneDrive for Business one-drive.png operations in Migration for each MySite at both the source and destination environments. 
Farm Administrator
  • Needed to copy site collections site-copy-structure.png from a web application when running a Copy Structure in Migration. 
Global Administrator
  • Needed when you have to list all your Site Collections and for Office 365 Groups manipulations (migration of permissions, and listing in the ShareGate Desktop Explorer)
Site Owned Permissions
  • Needed to copy from a SharePoint 2003 source when running a Copy Structure in Migration. 
Term Store Administrator
  • Needed to copy managed metadata managed-metadata-copy-structure.png for all actions in Migration. 
Full Control
  • Recommended when running a Copy Content, Import from File Share, and Import from Google Drive in Migration.

    Note: To use Insane Mode to run a Copy Content to Office 365, you need to be Site Collection Administrator.
Manage User Alerts
  • Needed to copy user alerts in Migration (note that you also need to have the server extension installed at the source and destination).
Read-Only Lock 
  • Should be removed on your source Site Collection before running a migration action with ShareGate Desktop.
  • Some SharePoint services do not respond correctly when the Site Collection is on read-only mode (even if they are only used to read information), and the requests will not be processed as intended. Learn more.

 

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