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Microsoft 365 (OneDrive/SharePoint) to Google Drive Considerations

Default behavior

User Drives

When migrating files from OneDrive to Google User (My) Drive, the Copy operation only migrates files that meet specific conditions:

  1. The file lives in a user’s source OneDrive

The following includes conditions when files are not migrated:

  1. Files that are in the “Shared” folder
  2. Files that contain corruption or content that Microsoft or Google defines as sensitive material and will not accept during migration
  3. Files or folders that contain sharing restrictions or permissions precluding migration access

Considerations

The following considerations are important to understand when migrating files from Microsoft 365 (OneDrive/SharePoint) to Google Drive:

  • For permissions to migrate, a given source address must map to an address that exists in the global Google namespace, which includes all domains associated with all Google tenants and gmail.com addresses.

  • Source link permissions are not supported.

  • The Can’t download permission is not supported. This property only exists when granting permissions on a SharePoint folder.

Advanced details

The following documentation provides granular details related to preserving file and folder sharing permissions during migration. This documentation includes scenario specific examples that define expected behavior for select common and edge cases.