Peregrine Insights
Clean Up Content with Peregrine Insights
Discovery, deduplication, and delete rules designed to make content cleanup manageable
Peregrine Insights gives organizations a structured way to analyze file systems before migration. It helps identify what content exists, where duplicates are located, and which files should be kept, deleted, or filtered from migration.
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Core capabilities include:
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Discovery rules to include or exclude content
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Hash level duplicate detection
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Duplicate group analysis
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Duplicate resolution rules
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Delete rules based on file attributes
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Unlike manual cleanup efforts or generic file scanning tools, Peregrine Insights is built for migration teams that need structure, repeatability, and confidence before moving content into Microsoft 365.
Discover, Analyze, and Clean Up Content
Before Migration
Organizations preparing for Microsoft 365, SharePoint Online, SharePoint Embedded, or Azure migrations often discover their source environments contain years of duplicated, outdated, and unmanaged content.
Peregrine Insights helps organizations inventory file systems, detect duplicate content, apply deletion rules, and reduce migration volume before content moves.
Migration is no longer just about moving content. It is about understanding what exists, reducing unnecessary volume, and preparing a cleaner information environment for governance, compliance, and AI readiness.
Discovery Jobs
Peregrine Insights scans one or more folders to inventory source content before migration. Discovery jobs capture file information and allow teams to apply discovery rules that include or exclude files by name, path, date, size, extension, or other attributes.
This gives migration teams a clearer picture of the source environment before migration planning begins.
Duplicate Detection
Peregrine Insights runs a deduplication pass against discovery results to identify and group duplicate files by hash.
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Hash level deduplication compares the file content itself, not just file names or folder paths. This allows Peregrine Insights to identify exact duplicate files even when they have been renamed, copied, or stored in different folders.
Delete Rules
Peregrine Insights allows teams to define rules that target files for deletion or exclusion based on file name, path, date, size, file type, duplicate status, or duplicate resolution logic.
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This helps organizations avoid manual cleanup and apply consistent rules across large file systems.
Duplicate Resolution Rules
For duplicate groups, Peregrine Insights supports resolution rules that determine which file should be retained.
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Common resolution rules include:
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Keep Latest Modified
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Keep Earliest Modified
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Keep Latest Created
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Keep Earliest Created
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Keep Latest Accessed
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Keep Earliest Accessed
These rules create a repeatable way to resolve duplication before migration.
Reports and Review
Peregrine Insights provides reporting on discovery results, file statistics, duplicate groups, applied rules, and deletion outcomes.
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Teams can review affected files before action is taken, supporting a more controlled and defensible cleanup process.
Content Cleanup Before Migration
Many organizations move too much content because they do not have a reliable way to understand their source environment before migration.
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File shares and legacy repositories often contain duplicate files, stale content, abandoned working copies, outdated exports, and files that no longer have business value.
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These cleanup decisions are not simply technical. They affect storage, governance, search, compliance, and the future usability of the target environment.
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Peregrine Insights supports content cleanup by helping teams:
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Identify duplicate files before migration
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Reduce unnecessary migration volume
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Filter content based on defined rules
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Apply consistent deletion logic
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Review affected files before action
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Improve the quality of content moved into SharePoint or Azure
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The result is a cleaner migration scope and a more usable target environment.
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Ready to move cleaner content into Microsoft 365?
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White Glove Services
Peregrine Insights can be used as part of a platform led migration approach or supported by Cadence consultants for organizations that need advisory support.
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Cadence can help organizations define discovery rules, review duplicate groups, validate deletion logic, support stakeholder review, and align cleanup decisions with broader migration and governance objectives.
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This flexible model allows organizations to choose the right balance between platform capability and guided expertise.
Why Peregrine and Cadence Solutions?
Cadence Solutions operates at the intersection of content modernization, Microsoft 365 architecture, and information governance.
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Peregrine Insights is backed by Cadence’s experience helping organizations prepare complex content environments for migration, governance, and long-term usability.
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Over 100 enterprise information management implementations. Governance aligned Microsoft 365 architecture. Platform driven migration with optional advisory support.
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We do not simply move content. We help organizations understand, clean up, and modernize their information environments.