When uploading a file to SharePoint, mapped drives and local paths such as C:\ or P:\ links typically will automatically change from Screenshot A below to Screenshot B MS Office tries to correct links automatically since MS Office 97. Next let's say we also have user folder paths we need to fix to point to their OneDrive folders. Since the path slashes are different, there is a safety mechanism alerting us of this, click OK to continue as we want to change path slashes
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Scroll down to expand "Exclusion Rules".You could change the options as needed but I have selected below: In the Job Options section, from a File Share migration, you likely only need to fix the links from uploaded documents in Document Libraries.Right click and select 'Create Reports→Broken Links'Īll of the selected sites will be listed under Site URLs:.
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Select the sites that you want to process.See Getting Started with SharePoint Essentials Toolkit Step-by-step guide This is achieved by using the Broken Link Manager component within the toolkit.įirst, add the Site Collection(s) where the 'File Share' content was uploaded/migrated to:
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With the SharePoint Essentials Toolkit, you can fix links after a migration from File Shares to SharePoint or One Drive. This article applies to SharePoint Essentials Toolkit v6.1.3.0 and later