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Migrate Dropbox to Microsoft 365 with Migration Manager

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Collaborate all in one place by migrating your Dropbox documents, data, and users to OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams in Microsoft 365.

How does it work?

  • Step 1: Connect to Dropbox. Sign in to your Dropbox administrator account to connect to your Microsoft 365 migration.
  • Step 2: Scan and assess. Add Dropbox accounts for scanning. Once the scans are complete, download the generated reports to investigate any possible issues that might block your migration.
  • Step 3: Copy to Migrations list. After Dropbox is scanned and determined to be ready, add them to your migration list.
  • Step 4: Review destination paths. We automatically map source paths to any exactly matching destination paths. Ensure content is being copied to the right place by reviewing and modifying as needed for each destination path.
  • Step 5: Map identities. Map your domains, groups, and users in Dropbox to domains, groups, and users in Microsoft 365 to migrate metadata and permissions correctly.
  • Step 6: Migrate and Monitor. After reviewing your migration setup, migrate your Dropbox accounts and monitor the progress.

Get started

To get started, navigate to Microsoft 365 Admin Center Home - Setup - Migration and imports, select Dropbox to create a migration project. Make sure you have:

  • Access to the destination: You must be one of the following roles in the Microsoft 365 tenant where you want to migrate your content:

    Important

    Microsoft recommends that you use roles with the fewest permissions. Using lower permissioned accounts helps improve security for your organization.

  • Access to the source: Have Dropbox account credentials that have Read access to any Dropbox user account you plan to migrate.

  • Prerequisites installed: Make sure you have the necessary prerequisites installed.

Once a migration project is created, you can start connecting to the source as described in the next step.

Note

Step 1: Connect to Dropbox