What is the Peregrine Insights?

Peregrine Insights is a discovery, deduplication, and cleanup module that helps organizations inventory file systems, detect duplicate files, apply delete rules, and reduce migration volume before moving content into Microsoft 365, SharePoint, SharePoint Embedded, or Azure.

How does Peregrine Insights detect duplicate files?

Peregrine Insights uses hash level deduplication to identify exact duplicate files based on the file content itself. This allows duplicate files to be detected even when they have different names or are stored in different folders.

What are duplicate resolution rules?

Duplicate resolution rules determine which file should be kept within a duplicate group. Examples include keeping the latest modified file, earliest modified file, latest created file, earliest created file, latest accessed file, or earliest accessed file.

Can Peregrine Insights delete duplicate files?

Yes. Peregrine Insights supports controlled deletion workflows based on delete rules and duplicate resolution logic. Teams can review affected files before deletion so cleanup decisions are intentional and validated.

Can Peregrine Insights filter content before migration?

Yes. Peregrine Insights can apply rules to include or exclude files based on name, path, date, size, extension, file type, duplicate status, or other attributes. This helps reduce migration volume before content is moved.

Why should content be cleaned before migration?

Cleaning content before migration reduces storage consumption, shortens migration timelines, improves search quality, reduces end user clutter, and strengthens governance in the target environment.

Does Peregrine Insights work with Peregrine Migrate?

Yes. Peregrine Insights is designed to work alongside Peregrine Migrate. Insights helps discover, analyze, deduplicate, and reduce content before approved content is migrated to the target platform.

Is Peregrine Insights only for file shares?

Peregrine Insights is especially useful for file share cleanup, but the same discovery and deduplication concepts can support broader migration readiness where source content needs to be analyzed, filtered, or reduced before migration.

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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.

Core capabilities include:

Discovery rules to include or exclude content
Hash level duplicate detection
Duplicate group analysis
Duplicate resolution rules
Delete rules based on file attributes

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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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.

Common resolution rules include:

Keep Latest Modified
Keep Earliest Modified
Keep Latest Created
Keep Earliest Created
Keep Latest Accessed
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.

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.

File shares and legacy repositories often contain duplicate files, stale content, abandoned working copies, outdated exports, and files that no longer have business value.

These cleanup decisions are not simply technical. They affect storage, governance, search, compliance, and the future usability of the target environment.

Peregrine Insights supports content cleanup by helping teams:

Identify duplicate files before migration
Reduce unnecessary migration volume
Filter content based on defined rules
Apply consistent deletion logic
Review affected files before action
Improve the quality of content moved into SharePoint or Azure

The result is a cleaner migration scope and a more usable target environment.

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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.

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.

This flexible model allows organizations to choose the right balance between platform capability and guided expertise.

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Why Peregrine and Cadence Solutions?

Cadence Solutions operates at the intersection of content modernization, Microsoft 365 architecture, and information governance.

Peregrine Insights is backed by Cadence’s experience helping organizations prepare complex content environments for migration, governance, and long-term usability.

Over 100 enterprise information management implementations. Governance aligned Microsoft 365 architecture. Platform driven migration with optional advisory support.

We do not simply move content. We help organizations understand, clean up, and modernize their information environments.

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Simplifying your content.

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Clean Up Content with Peregrine Insights

Discovery, deduplication, and delete rules designed to make content cleanup manageable