Microsoft's SharePoint Migration Tool

I have been reviewing Microsoft's SharePoint Migration Tool for several months as an easy to use free alternative to some of the costly commercial migration tools like Sharegate and Metalogix. While the commercial tools work well and are feature rich they are overkill for most SMB migration projects.  Since the v1.1 release of Microsoft's SharePoint Migration Tool I consider the tool production ready as I have run into very few issues.

My Requirements

  • Low cost or free
  • Easy to setup and use
  • Migrate from on-prem file share
  • Migrates varying types of NTFS permissions (inherited and unique)
  • Take advantage of our use of Azure AD Connect for syncing permissions from on-prem to Office 365
  • Can handle a large amount of folders, files, and data
    • Folders: 95,886
    • Files: 629,095
    • Data: 821 GB

Live Migration Experience

I started production migrations last week and so far I have only experienced a few minor issues.  After doing some digging I came across a method to report these issues to Microsoft by sending an email to migration_team@microsoft.com.  They have been very responsive to my emails and in providing new releases, hard to beat for free!

Migration performance has been good, migrating on average 20k files and 10 GB of data per hour.  Microsoft throttles the connections to their Office 365 services and their migration tool does not seem to have an exception to the throttling, not a big deal but it would be nice it they increased the limits for the tool.  Overall I am very happy with the experience.

Feel free to leave a comment with any questions you have.

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