Supported editions for this feature: Business Starter, Business Standard, and Business Plus; Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus; Education Fundamentals, Education Standard, Teaching and Learning Upgrade, and Education Plus; Essentials Starter, Essentials, Enterprise Essentials, and Enterprise Essentials Plus; Nonprofits; G Suite Basic and G Suite Business. Compare your edition
File migration for the new data migration service is currently in beta and subject to the Pre-General Availability Offerings Terms in the Google Workspace Service Specific Terms.
You can copy files and related data from your organization’s Microsoft OneDrive business editions to your users’ Google Workspace My Drive accounts using file migration. After you set up the migration in the Google Admin console, the process takes place in the cloud.
If you want to migrate other forms of data from different types of source accounts, go to the Google Workspace migration product matrix.
Requirements & setup steps for Google Workspace
- Make sure a super administrator sets up and runs the migration. Resellers can't migrate data for their customer accounts.
- You must give each Google Workspace user a user account before they can sign in and use Google services. File migration only migrates data to accounts of existing users. It doesn't create user accounts from the data it migrates. For details about user accounts, go to Options for adding users.
- Before your users can start to use Google services, they need a user license. For details, go to How licensing works.
- Turn on Google Drive for all users you are migrating to. For details, go to Turn Drive and Docs on or off for users.
Requirements for Microsoft OneDrive
- The migration must be run by a Global Administrator.
- A good comprehension of your Microsoft tenant setup. You need the email address of each user whose Microsoft OneDrive files you want to migrate. To get details about users in your tenant, go to Manage Microsoft 365 user accounts.
Retention & legal holds
File migration is intended as a productivity feature and is not designed to assist with legal compliance matters. You and your organization are responsible for assessing and meeting your organization's legal compliance needs. If you require files and folders for legal compliance purposes, consider backing up the files in Microsoft OneDrive prior to migrating data to Google Workspace.
