Coffee Break

For the Google Workspace admin whose Shared drives don't map to SharePoint

You are moving Drive into Microsoft 365 and finding that SharePoint is not just another Drive. It has sites, site collections, lists, libraries, hubs, and permission inheritance that Drive does not, and a Google Shared drive rarely maps cleanly to a single SharePoint site. Drive is a destination. SharePoint is a platform.

Coffee Break: SharePoint for Google Workspace Admins covers the document backbone: migration tooling, permission and metadata translation, information architecture and site design, the hub-and-spoke pattern that keeps sites from multiplying out of control, and post-cutover operations and decommissioning.

• Choose between team sites, communication sites, and Teams-connected sites, and turn Sheets trackers into Microsoft Lists
• Translate Drive permissions, metadata, version history, and sharing links into SharePoint, and know which gaps to treat as remediation work
• Design an information architecture with hubs and flat site structures, with retention applied where it belongs
• Set an external sharing posture and contain site proliferation
• Avoid the broken-inheritance sprawl that most SharePoint migrations aim to leave behind

Small-business IT admins and former Google Workspace administrators who are already running Microsoft 365, or partway through the move, and now own the SharePoint side: sites, libraries, permissions, and what happens after cutover. Assumes you have admin console access on both sides.

Coffee Break Migrations is a 10-book set of short playbooks for the Google Workspace to Microsoft 365 migration. This is Book 7. Book 1 is the series hub; read in order or jump to the one you need.

About the author: Gregory Allan Clark has spent three decades helping people and businesses with technology, with a focus on Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 migrations for small businesses.