Follow this chart to see the required or recommended permissions for certain actions:
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Permission Levels |
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| Site Collection Administrator |
Recommended for all procedures in Management and Migration. Needed for OneDrive for Business |
| SharePoint Administrator |
Needed when you have to list all your Site Collections. |
| Farm Administrator |
Needed to copy site collections |
| Global Administrator |
Needed for Microsoft 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 |
| 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 Microsoft 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. |
operations in Migration for each MySite at both the source and destination environments. 
from a web application when running a Copy Structure in Migration. 
for all actions in Migration.