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title: "Cutover Date - SharePoint Migrations"
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When planning the migration of your Q Drive data into SharePoint, ITS will ask you for your desired “cutover” date.

## What is this cutover?

The day of the cutover is the day that you will:

- No longer have access to the Q Drive folders that are being migrated and
- Only have access to your data through SharePoint

## What should I expect?

- ITS will ask you for your desired migration date. This will be your cutover date.
- The workday *before* the cutover day, you will lose access to the Q Drive folders that are being migrated at **2pm**.
- The day *of* the cutover, your data will be ready in SharePoint by 8am.
- Once your cutover occurs, you will need to synchronize your SharePoint site(s) with your computer in order to access your data.
  - The initial synchronization may take anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours depending on the number of files in your SharePoint site.
  - After your initial synchronization, SharePoint will synchronize your changes with the cloud as you make them.

> ✅ The “cutover" date is the <u>workday</u> before your migration takes place. If you wish to be working out of SharePoint on a **Monday**, you will lose access to your Q Drive at 2pm on the previous **Friday**.

## How do I prepare for the cutover?

- Let ITS know when you would like to cutover! This a date chosen by the owners of the Q Drive data.
- Remember that you will lose access to the Q Drive folders that are being migrated at 2pm the day before, so be sure to <u>close</u> any files that you are working on before this time.
- If you have a file open after 2pm, you <u>will not</u> be able to save your edits.
- Visit [https://uconn.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IKB/pages/26296877145](https://uconn.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IKB/pages/26296877145)

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