Your file shares are a museum. Time to move — selectively.

Network drives accumulate everything: fifteen versions of the same document, folders nobody owns, permissions granted in 2014 and never reviewed. Migrating all of it to SharePoint just moves the museum. This pack migrates selectively: what is current and used moves, what is dead archives, and what is sensitive gets permissions rebuilt.

The result is SharePoint and Teams that people can actually find things in.

What file shares actually contain

File shares are the oldest system in most organizations, and they show it. Fifteen versions of the same document, each named 'final' with increasing desperation. Folders nested seven deep, named after people who left years ago. Permissions granted in 2014 and never reviewed — including access for people who no longer work there. Content that nobody has opened in years sitting next to content the business depends on every day, with nothing to distinguish them.

The instinct is to migrate all of it — to treat the file share as a volume problem rather than a triage problem. But migrating everything to SharePoint just moves the museum to a nicer building. The sprawl, the dead content, the broken permissions, and the fifteen versions of 'final' all arrive intact, and SharePoint inherits a reputation as a place where nobody can find anything. The migration succeeds on paper and fails in practice.

How the pack works

The pack migrates selectively. It starts with an inventory and analysis: what exists, what is used, what is dead, what is sensitive. Current, used content moves. Dead content archives. Sensitive content gets permissions rebuilt rather than copied — because the permissions on a 2014 folder are not a record of who should have access; they are a record of who happened to get it.

Migration mapping translates folder structures into SharePoint sites, libraries, and Teams — designed around how teams work now, not around the folder hierarchy that accreted over a decade. Execution runs in waves with validation and user verification per wave, so each team confirms its content arrived intact and usable before the next wave begins. Adoption support closes the pack: training and guidance for teams moving to the new structure, so people know where things live and how the new world works.

What you walk away with

SharePoint and Teams that people can actually find things in — a structure designed for current work, permissions rebuilt on current needs, dead content archived instead of carried forward, and teams who know where their content lives and how to use it. The file share, finally, can be switched off.

• Share inventory and analysis — what exists, what is used, what is dead, what is sensitive. The inventory separates the content worth moving from the content worth archiving, and flags the sensitive content that needs permissions rebuilt — so the migration moves the working set, not the museum.
• Migration mapping — folder structures mapped to SharePoint sites, libraries, and Teams. Mapping is designed around how teams work now, not around the folder hierarchy that accreted over a decade — which is what makes the destination findable instead of a faithful copy of the confusion.
• Permissions redesign — access rebuilt on current needs, not inherited history. Permissions are set from who needs access today, with the old folder permissions treated as evidence of history, not as authorization — closing access that should have been closed years ago.
• Wave execution — migration with validation and user verification per wave. Each wave is validated after migration, and users verify their content before the next wave begins — so problems surface wave by wave, while they are still small and fixable.
• Adoption support — training and guidance for teams moving to the new structure. Training covers where content lives, how the new structure works, and what changed from the old world — because a migration nobody can navigate is a migration that failed, no matter how clean the data move was.