
Method 1: Bulk Import AD Users With GUI Tool

I downloaded and extracted the tool (to extract a zipped folder, right-click on it and choose ‘extract’ and I usually have it extract in its own folder and then show the folder to me. You just never know what can and will happen, so always make a backup. There are great detailed instructions in his article – the first step being to make a backup of the items you’re going to run the tool on. I also have some written instructions below the video. I thought I’d do a quick video on how the tool works. In it Nik D’Agostino has a link to the Bulk Rename Utility as well as instructions on running PowerShell scripts to extract older data you may not want to migrate. Recently, I was on LinkedIn and doing a search on ‘OneDrive for Business’, just to see what kinds of articles are out there and I found this article called ‘Flawlessly Migrate Thousands of Files/Folders’. We didn’t know how many files were affected and it would be extremely time consuming to have someone open and go through all the folders.


We found out that OneDrive for business will not sync any files with these characters in them – they call them ‘invalid characters’: \ / : * ? “ # %. My client wanted to move many thousands of files and folders from his server to OneDrive for Business. If you’ve ever had a project in front of you where you needed to go through huge numbers of computer files and rename them or search for a particular word or symbol and replace them quickly, then the Bulk File Rename Utility is for you.
