FastTrack Migration

File share to OneDrive for Business and

SharePoint Online

FastTrack migration team

Workshop purpose and objectives
Workshop
Prepare for file share to Office 365 migrations
purpose

Which FastTrack option is right for you

What will and won’t migrate to OneDrive for Business
and SharePoint Online
Objectives
How to prepare file share content for migration
Migration requirements and process
Plan and schedule your migrations
 FastTrack accountabilities Customer Accountabilities
FastTrack accountabilities Customer accountabilities
Agenda for self-service migration approach

Migration scope and approach

Sample migration timeline

Tooling overview
 Exchange on -
premise

FastTrack Accountabilities
 *Sample* file share self-service migration timeline
• Finalize number of users to be
migrated in one event
• Finalize scheduling plan
• Assess post-migration support
readiness

Lessons learned
FastTrack migration Migration prerequisites Source environment preparation
workshop • Set up and configure • Identify early adopters and pilot users
• Tooling overview OneDrive for Business and • Plan migration with guidance from FastTrack
• Best practice resource SharePoint Online • Plan OneDrive sync client deployment
sharing • Ensure required user • SharePoint Migration Tool tool setup and
subscription licenses are configuration Validation and
available • Run SharePoint Migration Tool assessment remediation Velocity
• Ensure destination • Prepare test file shares Test migration Pilot migration
(based on test migration
environment (for example • Plan velocity migration schedule
migrations)
Office 365 Groups or
Microsoft Teams) are
created and configured

Today 2-3 WEEKS 2-4 WEEKS 1 week 1 week 1 week TBD

(Depends on customer) (Depends on customer) (Depends on customer) (Depends on customer) (Depends on customer) (Depends on customer)
SharePoint Migration
Tool configuration
Download
Tool guidance
How to use
Self-service file share to Office 365 Groups or Microsoft Teams

CSV bulk migration

functionality

Source

TargetWeb

TargetDocLib

TargetSubFolder

Examples:
C:\MigrationTests\testfiles
https://contoso.SharePoint.com/teams/TeamName/Documents.ChannelName
Agenda for FastTrack-led migration approach

Migration scope and approach

High-level process and technical requirements
Scheduling guidance and tips
Communications and deliverables
Blackout dates
Next steps
File share migration overview
File
share
Exchange
onpremise

File Classification
Infrastructure (FCI)

SharePoint Online restrictions

and limitations
Migration prerequisites
Migration to SharePoint Online team sites and OneDrive for
Business
Sample file share migration timeline
• Finalize number of users to be migrated
in one event
• Finalize scheduling plan
• Assess post-migration support readiness

Lessons learned
Migration prerequisites Source environment preparation Validation and
remediation
• Sign FastTrack Agreement with terms and • Identify early adopters and pilot users (based on test
conditions (if needed) • Plan migration with guidance from the migrations)
• Set up collaboration site in your SharePoint FastTrack Center
Online tenant • Plan OneDrive sync client deployment
• Complete migration questionnaire • Run the Inventory Manager Velocity
• Set up and configure OneDrive for Business and • Prepare test file shares Test migration Pilot migration
migration
SharePoint Online • Prepare migration schedule
• Ensure required user subscription licenses are • Provision migration servers
available • Plan velocity migration schedule
• Migration tool setup and configuration
• Upload test & pilot scheduling files

2-3 WEEKS 2-4 WEEKS 1 WEEK 1 WEEK 1 WEEK TBD

(Depends on customer) (Depends on customer) (Depends on customer) (Depends on customer) (Depends on customer) (Depends on customer)

Volume requirements Test Pilot Velocity

OneDrive for Business Up to five (5) users and 40 GB 10 - 35 users and 50 - 100 GB 35 shares and 100 GB

SharePoint Online team sites Up to five (5) file shares and 40 GB 50 - 100 GB 100 GB
Activities in scope • Source content assessment and remediation guidance

• Migration scheduling and planning

• Content migration

• Migration issue triaging

• Guidance for OneDrive for Business client deployment

File share Inventory Manager
• Tool used to create the source inventory

assessment • Installed and run by customer on the source environment

overview
• Provides details about items which require remediation for
successful migration (for example: path exceeding the max length)
• Highlights items which can’t be migrated
Reporting
• Files are in comma separated value (CSV) format
• Drive Inventory – Includes high-level details like file and folder
count, total drive size, and count of remediation items
• Folder Inventory – Includes folder-level details like name, last
modified date, last accessed date, and remediation notes
• File Inventory – Includes file-level details like size, last modified
date, last accessed date, and remediation notes
• User Level Inventory – ZIP file containing data from the previous
three files separated per user (notifying user is optional)
Prepare your Run the Inventory Manager and go through the reports
•
for files and folders that need remediation

file share • Decide how to address files and folders exceeding the
SharePoint Online restrictions and limitations, including:
• Invalid file types and extensions
• Invalid file and folder names
• File and folder paths which exceed 400 characters in
the target
• Duplicate files in source and destination (if OneDrive
for Business or SharePoint Online is already in use)
Permissions
SharePoint Online and
Share permission level NTFS basic permission level* OneDrive for Business
permission level

mapping Full control

Modify
Full control

Modify
Contribute

Contribute

Read and execute Read and execute Read

List folder contents List folder contents Read

Read Read Read

Write Write Contribute

Access on a file server can be controlled by share and NTFS permissions.

Share permissions only apply to network shares and not Terminal Server or
local users. NTFS permissions are always applied, regardless of the protocol
used. After migration, the final permission level is determined by a mapping
of the most restrictive share or NTFS permission level.

A user’s Shared with me folder in OneDrive for Business won’t be updated

for source files shared with a group the user is a part of.

* After migration, all advanced NTFS permissions are removed. For explicit
deny permissions, this means the content is subject to parallel permissions or
permission on the folder and parent level and may become accessible.
High-level •
•
Migration questionnaire must be completed.
Inventory Manager must be run.

process • All identities must be existing in the tenant and have a SharePoint
Online or OneDrive for Business license assigned

requirements • For users already using OneDrive for Business:

• Have end users back up their content and empty their
OneDrive for Business.
Or
• Migrate only files that aren’t already in OneDrive for
Business. If the file already exists it won’t migrate again.
An item is logged in the migration report instead.
Note: With the exception of remigration, files modified in
OneDrive for Business after migration are migrated again
and get overwritten.

• Prepare users for expected changes:

• Communicate migration process and expected outcomes.
• Communicate migration schedules.
• Train users on how to create, upload, and share files.
High-level
• Account requirements – We need three (3) virtual private network (VPN) and
Remote Access accounts, three (3) migration admin accounts and three (3)
SharePoint Online admin accounts:

technical
• VPN and Remote Access accounts are used by FastTrack to establish a VPN
connection and use your Remote Desktop or Remote Access solution to
establish access to your migration virtual machines. Your VPN solution should

requirements
support split tunneling.
• Migration admin accounts should have local administrator permission on all
migration virtual machines and read permission on the source files shares. They
are used by FastTrack in the migration tool

Once the inventory is generated, the MVM may request additional migration virtual
machines needed to complete the project based on the given timelines.

• Two-factor authentication – The migration tool doesn’t support two-factor

authentication (2FA). It must be disabled for all Box service and SharePoint Online
admin accounts used by FastTrack.

• OneDrive for Business license – FastTrack’s SharePoint Online admin accounts need
to have OneDrive for Business licenses assigned as we use these accounts to
provision OneDrive for Business for end users before any migrations begin.

• Migsched account – FastTrack also needs a Migsched account with contributor

permissions on your SharePoint Online collaboration site. The migration team uses
this account to access schedule files, upload migration reports, and access the post-
migration issue tracker.

• Password complexity – Make sure that all passwords meet the FastTrack Center
complexity requirements. Refer to your migration questionnaire for the latest
password policy.
Technical 1. The migration tool leverages the migration
admin account provided by the customer to
migration flow connect to the file share and encrypt files in a
migration API package.

2. Bots in SharePoint Online pick up the packages,

decrypt the content, and ingest these into the
tenant.

3. Once this is done for all file shares, users can

start working with their content in SharePoint
Online and OneDrive for Business, as well as
using the sync client.
File share migration: High-level technical requirements
See the migration
requirements
document for more
details.

For resources to plan

for connectivity and
performance, see:
Network planning and
performance tuning for
Office 365.

Additionally, a Premier
Field Engineer (PFE)
Office 365 Network
Performance
Assessment can be
considered (Microsoft
Premier Support
required).
Migration scheduling guidelines
Timeline Task Description
Any time prior to 14 Prepare migration The customer prepares the list of file shares to be migrated in a given week
days before migration schedule 14 days in advance. Every migration event should have at least 35 shares
scheduled in that respective event.

T-14 days Upload migration At T-14 days, the migration team should receive the migration schedule file
schedule with the confirmed migration date, window, and group. This gives adequate
time for Microsoft to schedule resources to be in place to either validate
migrations or migrate users.

T-7 days Pre-flight report On T-7, customer receives preflight error report so that they can fix the issues
and ensure that maximum get migrated on the migration date.

T-1 day Drop The customer can drop file shares up to 24 hours before the migration.
T-0 Migrate file shares The migration team starts the migration of file shares.

Whenever a new migration schedule is uploaded, or change is made in originally submitted schedule on the designated
location, communicate it to your assigned MVM, Migration Engineer Lead (MEL), FM, FE, Scheduling Team distribution list
(DL) (O365SCHK@Microsoft.com), and MEL Factory DL (O365MELFactory@microsoft.com).
Migration scheduling
UTC EDT / EST CDT / CST PDT / PST CET / CEST
( UTC-4 / UTC-5 ) ( UTC-5 / UTC-6 ) ( UTC-7 / UTC-8 ) ( UTC+1 / UTC+2 )
Start End Start End Start End Start End Start End

22:00 / 21:00 • A batch of 21:00

source/ 20:00 19:00
This is the time/ 18:00 • A more specific
. 02:00
(the night before (the night before
•
(the night before
03:00 / 04:00
content together. period a customer time slot within
. 05:00 12:00 01:00 / 00:00 08:00 / 07:00 00:00 / 23:00 06:00 22:00
07:00 /chooses / 21:00 05:00 / 04:00
to start each 06:00
window that a13:00 / 14:00
/ 07:00
(the night before (the night before
• Migration events migration. customer chooses
. 08:00 04:00 / 03:00 03:00
are scheduled for/ a
02:00 01:00 / 00:00 09:00
to start is a/ 10:00
given migration • For example, if a migration event.
window and customer wants to
group. migrate source • Each migration
content located in group corresponds
. 12:00 08:00 / 07:00 07:00 / 06:00 05:00 / of
the US outside 04:00 13:00 / 14:00
to a specific time
business hours, slot within a
. 15:00 22:00 11:00 / 10:00 18:00 / 17:00 10:00 / 09:00 17:00 /Window
16:00 08:00 / 07:00 15:00 / 14:00 16:00 / 17:00 23:00 / 00:00
1 is the migration
most suited window.
. 18:00 14:00 / 13:00 13:00 / 12:00 11:00 / 10:00
migration window.
19:00 / 20:00

. 20:00 03:00 16:00 / 15:00 15:00 / 14:00 13:00 / 12:00 21:00 / 22:00 04:00 / 05:00
(the next 23:00 / 22:00 22:00 / 21:00 20:00 / 19:00 (the next
. 23:00 morning) 19:00 / 18:00 18:00 / 17:00 16:00 / 15:00 00:00 / 01:00 morning)
Migration scheduling time zone translation
UTC EDT / EST CDT / CST PDT / PST CET / CEST
( UTC-4 / UTC-5 ) ( UTC-5 / UTC-6 ) ( UTC-7 / UTC-8 ) ( UTC+1 / UTC+2 )
Start End Start End Start End Start End Start End

22:00 / 21:00 21:00 / 20:00 19:00 / 18:00

. 02:00
(the night before (the night before (the night before
03:00 / 04:00

. 05:00 12:00 01:00 / 00:00 08:00 / 07:00 00:00 / 23:00 07:00 / 06:00 22:00 / 21:00 05:00 / 04:00 06:00 / 07:00 13:00 / 14:00
(the night before (the night before

. 08:00 04:00 / 03:00 03:00 / 02:00 01:00 / 00:00 09:00 / 10:00

. 12:00 08:00 / 07:00 07:00 / 06:00 05:00 / 04:00 13:00 / 14:00

. 15:00 22:00 11:00 / 10:00 18:00 / 17:00 10:00 / 09:00 17:00 / 16:00 08:00 / 07:00 15:00 / 14:00 16:00 / 17:00 23:00 / 00:00

. 18:00 14:00 / 13:00 13:00 / 12:00 11:00 / 10:00 19:00 / 20:00

. 20:00 03:00 16:00 / 15:00 15:00 / 14:00 13:00 / 12:00 21:00 / 22:00 04:00 / 05:00
(the next 23:00 / 22:00 22:00 / 21:00 20:00 / 19:00 (the next
. 23:00 morning) 19:00 / 18:00 18:00 / 17:00 16:00 / 15:00 00:00 / 01:00 morning)

*NOTE: This group is not available on Fridays or the day before a blackout date.
Migration event cancellation due to a global security incident
▪ Should any global security incidents occur, like network outages or cyber attacks (for example, WannaCrypt), any
migration type which requires use of VPN connectivity to your network is suspended by FastTrack (including
associated migration activities) as a precautionary measure.

▪ VPN connectivity will remain suspended until necessary mitigations and verifications are completed.

▪ This may impact all future migration events which may then need to be cancelled and rescheduled for a later date.

▪ Migration events are resumed once the security team completes the validations and confirms required mitigations
are in place to safely continue with migrations.

▪ During this time, periodic communications are sent about the situation with expected times for resuming
connectivity or migrations.
 Paused migration process for customers
▪ As part of periodic maintenance, we keep the migration infrastructure “paused” if no migration event occurred over the
previous 30 days.

▪ Source, cloud, and migration schedule admin credentials are deleted from the Azure Key Vault​.

▪ This helps by:

▪ Minimizing the time needed for migration infrastructure maintenance for inactive customers.

▪ Keeping infrastructure costs low.

▪ The process is aimed at shutting down unused infrastructure and doesn’t mean that we’re disengaging with the customer.

▪ Once you plan to resume migrations, the migration team (including the MVM and MEL) needs an additional one (1) week of
notification apart from regular T-14 days (Exchange, Gmail, Google Drive, File Share, Box, GroupWise, and IMAP) and T-21
days (Lotus Notes). During that week you need to share all new credentials and account details with the team in order to
rerun the test migrations.
 Monthly system maintenance
▪ Monthly system maintenance is performed on the third weekend of every month between the hours of 05:00 UTC on
Saturday and 24:00 UTC on Sunday. You have the option of scheduling events outside of this maintenance window or
allowing the jobs to be paused and resumed as needed during the maintenance.

▪ During this time machines may need to be rebooted which may restart any in-progress migrations. We monitor all jobs to
ensure they are restarted successfully after maintenance is completed. If you have migrations scheduled during this time,
you can leave them running but should expect some delays in processing. As an alternative, you can remove users from a
batch that’s expected to run into the maintenance window and reschedule them at a later date or reschedule the entire batch.
Your MVM can help plan for maintenance windows in your schedule.
Calendar year (CY) 2018 global blackout dates − Non-ITAR migration team
Date Holiday Last migration window First following migration window

Monday, 1-January-18 New Year’s Day December 29th, 20:00 UTC January 2nd, 02:00 UTC
Friday, 26-January-18 Republic Day January 25th, 20:00 UTC January 29th, 02:00 UTC
Friday, 2-March-18 Holi March 1st, 20:00 UTC March 5th, 02:00 UTC
Friday, 30-March-18 Good Friday March 29th, 20:00 UTC April 2nd, 02:00 UTC
Tuesday, 1-May-18 May Day / Labor Day April 30th, 20:00 UTC May 2nd, 02:00 UTC
Wednesday, 15-August-18 Independence Day August 14th, 20:00 UTC August 16th, 02:00 UTC
Thursday, 13-September-
Ganesh / Vinayak Chaturthi September 12th, 20:00 UTC September 14th, 02:00 UTC
18
Tuesday, 2-October-18 Gandhi Jayanthi October 1st, 20:00 UTC October 3rd, 02:00 UTC
Thursday, 18-October-18 Dussehra / Vijayadasami October 17th, 20:00 UTC October 22nd, 02:00 UTC
Friday, 19-October-18 Dussehra / Vijayadasami (Blr) October 17th, 20:00 UTC October 22nd, 02:00 UTC
Wednesday, 1-November-
Kannada Rajyotsava October 31st, 20:00 UTC November 2nd, 02:00 UTC
18
Thursday, 7-November-18 Diwali November 6th, 20:00 UTC November 11th, 02:00 UTC
Friday, 8-November-18 Diwali (Blr) November 6th, 20:00 UTC November 11th, 02:00 UTC
Tuesday, 25-December-18 Christmas December 24th, 20:00 UTC December 26th, 02:00 UTC

In the event a migration is required to start on a blackout date above, the MVM can submit an exception request.
Migration scheduling tips Americas

Most of our customers in the Americas use either Window 1, Group 1 (W1G1) which starts at 10PM
EDT/9PM EST or Window 3 Group 2 (W3G2)* which starts at 7PM EDT/6PM EST as these cover the
maximum off-business hours.

To keep the scheduling and post-migration task simple and give the maximum
possible time available for migrations performed in either a single batch or day, we recommend
scheduling users in the same Window/Group combination throughout the velocity.

If you have users located in other continents (regions) with varied time zones, you can select other
Window/Group combinations to accommodate their off-business hours.
We recommend a single Window/Group combination per region.

• We recommend initial syncs start on Fridays during W3G1.

Migration • This is a single-pass migration (incremental migration
isn’t available).

scheduling • Test migrations can start 14 days (T-14) after providing

the completed migration questionnaire and validation of
guidance the test accounts.

• Average migration throughput can be determined during

the pilot migration stage and can be used as a baseline
for planning purposes.

• Schedule migration batches based on drive size, file

count, and permissions.

• File count and permissions impact migration throughput

the most.
Migration steps and reporting

The kickoff notification is sent out at the

start of the migration window. The
kickoff email contains the migration
window, the preflight failures and
details, and the number of file shares
scheduled for migration.
Migration steps and reporting

The update notification is sent out at the

end of the migration window.
Migration steps and reporting

The post-migration completion report is

sent out at the end of the migrations. If
the migrations aren’t complete at the
end of migration window, an update
goes out at that time followed by a
post-migration report when the
migration is complete.
 Completion summary report
Sample
migration
reports
Completion error report
Post- Recommended

migration: Perform User Acceptance Testing (UAT) of

migrated content.

Customer Deploy OneDrive for Business Next Generation

activities
Sync Client (if not yet deployed).

Provide post-migration links to support staff and

end users (as needed).

Communicate migration results and outcome to

end users.
What is a preflight check?

• A preflight check is a check to verify that file share migration is ready (or not).

• The following list includes some of the checks we perform to mark a user as Preflight Passed or Failed.
• The service account (the account used to log on to migration server) has read access on the file
share.
• The user account (the target address provided in the schedule file) has an object created in Office
365.
• The target address provided has a OneDrive for Business license assigned.
• The team site provided in the schedule file is valid in SharePoint Online (for file share to team site
migration).
Post- Migration issue types
Determine if there is any missing content in SharePoint
migration: Online team sites or OneDrive for Business after migration.

FastTrack Process
Create migration issues tracker in the portal (Microsoft).

Center Log ticket for post-migration issues in the tracker with

required details (customer).
support Monitor the portal for tickets in the queue (Microsoft).
Report unexpected migration issues up to five days after
migration (customer).
Prioritize all severity tickets with urgency over normal and
low impact issues (Microsoft).

Remediation steps
Assist in troubleshooting reported issues (Microsoft).
Correct issue or rerun migration, depending on the issue
reported and recommendation given (customer).
Plan ahead
Inventory Manager should be run for all
Migration dates, Windows, and Groups are
users in the org at least one (1) week
posted in UTC
before the pilot starts

VPN access, SharePoint Online admin Migration questionnaire is completed and

account access, and read access to file migration team’s lockdown days are
shares are validated verified

Migration servers to be built as per Don’t modify the headers of the scheduling
recommended configuration and settings file

FastTrack Center Velocity Team works 24 Schedule the file shares based on numbers
hours a day, five days a week (24x5) of files and size of the file share

Passwords are reset every 70 days Plan for and ensure users are licensed
Next steps
Customer activity FastTrack Center contact for assistance

✓ Sign FastTrack Migration Terms and Conditions

FastTrack Manager (FM)
if applicable

✓ Understand and test access to the

FM
secure document collaboration site

✓ Run assessment tool (inventory manager) and

FastTrack Engineer (FE)
upload results to the collaboration site

✓ Complete migration questionnaire and upload

FE
results to the collaboration site

✓ Provision migration computers FE

✓ Plan and conduct pilot migrations,

FastTrack Migration Velocity Manager (MVM)
upload schedule to the collaboration site
✓ Plan and start velocity migrations,
MVM
upload schedule to the collaboration site
recommended remediation actions
Blocked files
Files with certain extensions (ASPX, MASTER, XAP, SWF, JAR, ASMX, ASCX,
XSF, HTC) fail to migrate.
This happens because scripting files are blocked by SharePoint Online by
default.

If you want these files migrated, a SharePoint Online admin can change
this default setting prior to migration.
For more information, see Turn scripting capabilities on or off.
Long URL path
Files and folders with a long path (for example, deeply nested folders and
long names) fail to migrate.
The entire combined path of folder name and filename in the target can
have up to 400 characters.
For more information, see Restrictions and limitations when you sync
SharePoint libraries to your computer through OneDrive for Business.

Folders and files like these are identified by our Inventory Manager,
assuming 50 characters for the tenant name by default.
Customers can refer to the assessment report and reorganize folders and
files.
If not remediated, these failures are captured during migration and are
reported in the migration report.
Files larger than
15 GB SharePoint Online supports files up to 15 GB in size. Depending on the
file system of your source, larger files may exist and won’t migrate.

Files like these are identified by our tooling.

Customers can refer to the assessment report to understand the extent of
this issue. If not remediated, these failures are captured during migration
and are reported in the migration report.
The customer needs to determine remediation on a case by case basis,
depending on file type and available resources.
Content won’t
remigrate if If a user has made changes to a folder or file after migration, the source won’t

changes are made be copied during remigration.

This even occurs when the migration tool’s Incremental switch is set to OFF.
to target content
after migration We recommend to clear the target if older source content needs to be
remigrated to OneDrive for Business or SharePoint Online.
Resources FastTrack adoption resources for SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business
https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=854630
OneDrive for Business training
https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=846078
OneDrive for Business service description
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=746559
SharePoint and Office 365 online guides
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=746926
OneDrive for Business troubleshooting
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=746927
OneDrive for Business new sync client
https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=862457
OneDrive for Business new user interface (UI)
https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=829269
RACI matrix for file share migration activities
Customer FM FE MVM MEL Migration team
Source environment setup (for A, R I A C C I
example, migration server)
Migration infrastructure setup I I I A, R C I
(Azure)
Migration scheduling A, R R C C C I
Migration questionnaire R A C C C I
VPN accounts R A C C C I
Azure jump box for VPN access I I I A, R C I
Inventory tool setup, reporting R I A C C I
Remediation of issues found from A, R C R C C I
inventory tool reports
Pilot migration C C C A C, R I
OneDrive licensing A, R C C C I I
Data migration I I I A C, I R
OneDrive sync client (out of scope A, R C C C I I
for FastTrack Center as per service
description) added as a task
CY 2018 regional blackout dates – US ITAR migration team
Date Holiday Last migration window First following migration window

Monday, 1-January-18 New Year's Day December 29th, 20:00 UTC January 2nd, 02:00 UTC
Monday, 15-January-18 Martin Luther King Day January 12th , 20:00 UTC January 16th, 02:00 UTC
Monday, 19-February-18 President’s Day February 16th, 20:00 UTC February 20th, 02:00 UTC
Monday, 28-May-18 Memorial Day May 25th, 20:00 UTC May 29th, 02:00 UTC
Wednesday, 4-July-18 Independence Day July 3rd, 20:00 UTC July 5th, 02:00 UTC
Monday, 3-September-18 Labor Day August 31st, 20:00 UTC September 4th, 02:00 UTC
Thursday, 22-November-
Thanksgiving Day November 21st, 20:00 UTC November 26th, 02:00 UTC
18
Friday, 23-November-18 Day after Thanksgiving November 21st, 20:00 UTC November 26th, 02:00 UTC
Monday, 24-December-18 Christmas Eve December 21st, 20:00 UTC December 26th, 02:00 UTC
Tuesday, 25-December-18 Christmas Day December 21st, 20:00 UTC December 26th, 02:00 UTC
CY 2018 regional blackout dates − Poland migration team
Date Holiday Last migration window First following migration window
Tuesday, 2-January- December 29th, 20:00
As the Three Kings holiday falls on Saturday January 3rd, 02:00 UTC
18 UTC
Monday, 2-April-18 Easter Monday March 30th, 20:00 UTC April 3rd, 02:00 UTC
Thursday, 3-May-18 Constitution Day May 2nd, 20:00 UTC May 4th, 02:00 UTC
Thursday, 31-May-18 Corpus Christi May 30th, 20:00 UTC June 1st, 02:00 UTC
Thursday, 1-
All Saints October 31st, 20:00 UTC November 2nd, 02:00 UTC
November-18
The Poland migration team observes holidays on January 1st, May 1st, and December 25th which overlap with the global
blackout dates.
During the regional holidays listed here, the India migration team may cover migrations for commercial customers if
required.
CY 2018 regional blackout dates – China migration team
Date Holiday Last migration window First following migration window

Thursday, 15-February-18 -
Spring Festival February 14th, 20:00 UTC February 22nd, 02:00 UTC
Wednesday, 21-February-18
Thursday, 5-April-18 Tomb Sweeping Festival April 4th, 20:00 UTC April 6th, 02:00 UTC
Monday, 18-June-18 Dragon Boat Day June 15th, 20:00 UTC June 19th, 02:00 UTC
Monday, 24-September-18 Mid-Autumn Day 21st, 20:00 UTC September 25th, 02:00 UTC
Monday, 1-October-18 -
National Day September 30th, 20:00 UTC October 8th, 02:00 UTC
Sunday, 7-October-18
The China migration team observes holidays on January 1st and May 1st which overlap with the global blackout dates.
During the regional holidays listed here, the India migration team may cover migrations for commercial customers if
required.
CY 2018 regional blackout dates – UK migration team
Date Holiday Last migration window First following migration window

Monday, 2-April-18 Easter Monday March 30th, 20:00 UTC April 3rd, 08:00 UTC
Monday, 7-May-18 May Day May 4th, 20:00 UTC May 8th, 08:00 UTC
Monday, 28-May-18 Last May Bank Holiday May 25th, 20:00 UTC May 29th, 08:00 UTC
Monday, 27-August-18 Summer Bank Holiday August 24th, 20:00 UTC August 28th, 08:00 UTC
Wednesday, 26-December-
Boxing Day December 24th, 20:00 UTC December 27th, 08:00 UTC
18
The UK migration team observes holidays on January 1st , March 30th, and December 25th which overlap with the global
blackout dates.
During the regional holidays listed here, the India migration team may cover migrations for commercial customers if
required.
CY 2018 regional blackout dates – German migration team
Date Holiday Last Migration Window First Following Migration Window

Saturday, 6-January-18 Epiphany January 5th, 20:00 UTC January 8th, 02:00 UTC
Monday, 2-April-18 Easter Monday March 29th, 20:00 UTC April 3rd, 02:00 UTC
Thursday, 10-May-18 Ascension Day May 9th, 20:00 UTC May 11th, 02:00 UTC
Monday, 21-May-18 Whit Monday May 18th, 20:00 UTC May 22nd, 02:00 UTC
Thursday, 31-May-18 Corpus Christi May 30th, 20:00 UTC June 1st, 02:00 UTC
Wednesday, 3-October-18 Day of German Unity October 2nd, 20:00 UTC October 4th, 02:00 UTC
Wednesday, 26-December-
Christmas Day December 24th, 20:00 UTC December 27th, 02:00 UTC
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The German migration team observes holidays on January 1st , March 30th, May 1st, November 1st, and December 25th which
overlap with the global blackout dates. During the regional holidays listed here, the India migration team may cover
migrations for commercial customers if required.
Migration scheduling tips Asia Pacific Japan (APJ)

Most of our customers in APJ use either Window 2, Group 1 (W2G1) or Window 2, Group 2 (W2G2)
as these cover the maximum off-business hours.*

To keep the scheduling and post-migration task simple and give the maximum
possible time available for migrations performed in either a single batch or day, we recommend
scheduling users in the same Window/Group combination throughout the velocity.

If you have users located in other continents (regions) with varied time zones, you can select other
Window/Group combinations to accommodate their off-business hours.
We recommend a single Window/Group combination per region.

We recommend to schedule accounts more than 25 GB in size to start on Fridays during W3G2.
Migration scheduling tips Europe Middle East Africa (EMEA)

Most of our customers in EMEA use either Window 2, Group 3 (W2G3)* which starts at 6 PM UTC or
Window 3, Group1 (W3G1) which starts at 8 PM UTC as these cover maximum off-business hours.

To keep the scheduling and post-migration task simple and give the maximum
possible time available for migrations performed in either a single batch or day, we recommend
scheduling users in the same Window/Group combination throughout the velocity.

If you have users located in other continents (regions) with varied time zones, you can select other
Window/Group combinations to accommodate their off-business hours.
We recommend a single Window/Group combination per region.

• We recommend to schedule accounts more than 25 GB in size to start on Fridays during W3G2.
Confirm OneDrive for Business storage starts at 1 TB
and the maximum storage depends on the plan purchased.
For more information, see:
storage • OneDrive for Business service description

availability • Set your OneDrive for Business storage quota

The storage available for team sites depends on the number of

subscribed users and the plan purchased.
For most Enterprise plans, the basic formula is
1 TB plus .5 GB per subscribed user along with any purchased
storage.
For more information, see:

• SharePoint Online software boundaries and limits

• Change storage space for your subscription

• Manage site collection storage limits

Customer Web
The current version of Internet Explorer*; the current version of Microsoft Edge,

system
Safari, Chrome, or Firefox. Get more details.
*Internet Explorer 8 and 9 stopped working with SharePoint Online and OneDrive for

requirements
Business in mid-2016.

Sync client (latest version)

Windows 10, Windows 8, or Windows 7.
Mac OS X 10.9 onward.

Mobile devices
Windows: Office mobile applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote) require
Windows 10.
iOS: Office for iPad® and iPhone® requires iOS 8.0 or higher.
Android: Android KitKat 4.4 or later version and have an ARM-based or Intel x86
processor.
Mobile browsers: Any mobile browser supported by Microsoft may be used, including
the Intune-managed browser.

*For the latest requirements, go here.

Benefits of
SharePoint Online
OneDrive for Business
team sites

team sites
Cloud, on-premises, Cloud, on-premises,
Deployment options
hybrid hybrid
Platform accessibility ⚫ ⚫

and
Active Directory integration ⚫ ⚫
Data loss prevention Office 2016 Office 2016

OneDrive for
Platform
and support Encryption (at rest and in transit) ⚫ ⚫

Rights management ⚫ ⚫

Business
Auditing and reporting Office 2016 Office 2016

Privacy and compliance standards Advanced Advanced

Service License Agreement (SLA) and
⚫ ⚫
support
User experience friendliness ⚫ ⚫

Storage volume 25 TB 1 TB, 5 TB, or unlimited

Maximum upload size From 2 GB to 10 GB From 2 GB to 10 GB

User Real-time web editing and co-

Office 2016 Office 2016
experience authoring
Offline editing ⚫ ⚫
Selective sync options ⚫ ⚫
Editing and viewing controls ⚫ ⚫
Email integration and ease of
Office 2016 Office 2016
sharing
How OneDrive for Business sync works
Map file shares to site collections or libraries
• File shares can be mapped to a site collection or
a document library.
• If mapped to a site collection, all the
subfolders and files are recreated in the
default Documents library.
• If mapped to a specific document library,
that document library is provisioned as a
pre-migration activity. All subfolders and
files from the file share are migrated with
the same file and folder structure.

• Subfolders in the file share can also be mapped

to either a site collection, which means content
gets migrated to the default Documents library
or to a specific document library within the site
collection.

• Note: Everything under the folder, specified at

the source, is migrated. There’s no way to
exclude folders in the directory tree.
• Note: It’s not possible to migrate to a specific
subfolder in a document library.
Conceptual target information architecture*

Logical
Enterprise Publishing Team collaboration Project collaboration Communities

E1: Search P0: Intranet top level TC0: V-teams (external

PC1: Project portal C0: Community portal

Actual
sharing)

E2: Records center P1: Corp function 1 PC1.1: Org unit A

TC1: Org unit 1 teams C1: Community 1
projects

E3: eDiscovery center P2: Corp function 2 PC1.2: Org unit B C2: Community 2
TC2: Org unit 2 teams
projects

PC1.n: Org unit n Cn: Community n

E4: Media assets P3: Corp function 3 TC3: Org unit 3 teams
projects
E5: Compliance policy
P4: Business unit 1 TC3.1 Dept. A
center

E6: Content type hub P5: Business unit 2 TC3.2 Dept. B

E7: Power BI portal P6: Business unit 3 TC3.3 Dept. C

Key

Pn: Corp function or TCn: Org unit n teams

business unit n
Conceptual migration process Key
Customer

FastTrack
Center
Assessment

Content inventory Content rationalization

Pre-migration Extraction
Migration mapping and
Content remediation Loc Infrastructure
note: Updated set up Content export from source
migration scheduling

Migration (pilot migration → velocity migration) Transport

Content, metadata, and File and content movement to target location
Quality assurance Result reporting
security

Post-migration* Ingestion

Validate Correct data connections Deploy SharePoint Content import into target
Configure sites
migration results and embedded links Add-ins

*Post-migration tasks are optional, content validation (UAT) is recommended

Chat-based Mail and Voice, video, Co-creating Sites and Enterprise
workspace calendar and content content social
Microsoft Teams Outlook meetings Office 365 ProPlus management Yammer
Skype SharePoint

Office 365 Groups

Complete solution Integrated experiences Security and compliance

Office 365 addresses the breadth of Office 365 Groups and Microsoft Office 365 delivers the security,
collaboration needs across your Graph enable integrated compliance, and manageability
company collaboration experiences required in today’s workplace
Store and collaborate on files
Create and manage lists of
information
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