Release Notes
December 2024
These release notes provide information about the Quest® Essentials for Office 365 release.
Due to Microsoft deprecating legacy authentication:
·Java 11 (jdk11-0.0.2) must be installed
AND
·the option to sign into SharePoint Online directly is no longer available.
The following is a list of issues, including those issues attributed to third-party products, known to exist at the time of release.
·Nintex Forms/Workflow app should be installed before a list/library migration.
·Copy Nintex Forms is supported only as part of Copy Site as Existing Site because Nintex Forms app should be installed before site migration. Installation of Office 365 App at "Copy Site as new Site" or "Promote to New Site collection" is not supported as Microsoft does not allow automatic app installation in the tenant during site creation.
·out of place restore from Backups works inside one tenant only.
·Delete action does not remove snapshot from a hyper backup project stored on Amazon Storage with Custom Endpoint.
·Nintex Form migration is not available as part of Hyper Migration.
·Claims Connection goes to loop in some environments and the connection cannot be finished as a result.
·Modern page migration is part of groups to groups migration. For more limitations please refer to backlog Item #422888
·Migrating Chinese to Chinese tenancy:
oAzure turbo does not work, as Microsoft does not support Azure containers in the Chinese tenant. As a result, Hyper mode migrations and backups work without Azure turbo.
oEnterprise file systems like Box, Dropbox and Google drives do not work in China.
·Migration of Various Template types is limited
GCC High Tenant migration:
oOnly works using OAuth connections
oBackup does not work
oOld type Script creation is not working, as there is no support for the OAuth connection type
Proxy Setting:
oBox, Dropbox and Google Drive do not support the use of PAC proxy
oConnection to AWS with PAC is not supported
·Provisioning of personal OneDrive's does not work when using the OAuth connection type.
·Migrating one large file of more than 10 GB results in the tool failing to read all the versions and failing to migrate using Azure.
Google Drives:
oIndividual file/folder share permissions are not preserved upon migration.
oGoogle Shared Drives membership can be copied to Office 365 only when OAuth is enabled.
oIt is no longer possible to connect to Google Drives from Essentials through the browser. Google now requires a P12 key.
Language Migration
·Same Language Migration (ex: Italian to Italian)
oDuring new site collection creation we cannot create a new site in the default language present on the source tenant. The new site will always be created in English if the site is not found during migration.
·SharePoint Online to SharePoint Online Migration
oCustom doc template setting is not preserved as it does not work with tokens
oNo admin pooling when connected via claims.
oMaster page gallery is not supported.
oLookup will work in Synchronous mode
·Migration of various template type limitation is mentioned in a Scenario Guide Article.
High Level Report
·Claims is not supported for farm connections
SharePoint Online to SharePoint Online
·Version comments for files are not preserved when CSOM is used. (It is not an issue with Azure.)
·Custom document template settings are not preserved as they do not work with tokens
·No admin pooling when connected via claims
·Master page gallery is not supported
·Lookup will work in Synchronous mode
·The following are not supported structures for Migration
·Not Supported:
oCopy Site Theme/change the look
oCopy Master Pages Gallery
oCopy Custom Doc Template
oColumns and Content Types:
oColumn Settings (Hidden/Required/Optional) are not supported for migration.
oAdditional Column Settings (Description, Validation, Column Formatting, etc.) are not supported for migration.
New Features and Resolved issues from previous versions are listed below.
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