A migration project contains the full set of migration features and provides a summary of all the migration activities in the project dashboard. You can work with a single migration project or you can set up multiple migration projects to split staggered migration plans into manageable projects.

In this topic:

Creating a new migration project

1. Sign in to Quest On Demand.
2. From the navigation pane, click Migration to open the Migration projects view.

   

3. Click Create Project.

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   If you have already created one or more projects, click Create Project as shown below.

   

4. Select Hybrid Exchange from the project types page.

   

5. The New Project wizard starts.
6. Step 1: Select Source and Target

   Enter the information in the fields as described below:

   1. Project Name - specify a meaningful name for the project. Maximum number of characters is 128.
   2. Description - enter a description about the project. Maximum number of characters is 200.
   3. Source Type - select the email source from the following options. The option you select will not be available for the Target Type.
      1. Microsoft Exchange 2010-2019 - Your email source is an on premises Exchange server.
      2. Microsoft 365 - Your email source is a Microsoft 365 tenant.
   4. Target Type - select the email target from the following options. Depending on the option you select for the Source Type, only one of the two option below will be available for selection.
      1. Microsoft 365 - Your email target is a Microsoft 365 tenant.
      2. Microsoft Exchange 2010-2019 - Your email target is an on premises Exchange server.
   5. Microsoft Exchange EWS endpoint - enter the URL of the Microsoft Exchange EWS endpoint of the source or target Exchange server selected.
   6. Exchange admin username - enter the Microsoft Exchange administrator username.
   7. Exchange admin password - enter the Microsoft Exchange administrator password.
   8. Hybrid Modern Authentication (HMA) - Appears when you choose Microsoft Exchange 2010-2019 as the source or target. Select this option to allow the On Demand service principal to access mailboxes, which are hosted on-premises, by using authorization tokens obtained from the source or target tenant. When you select this option, the following settings are also considered:

      Source tenant or Target tenant - the name of the source or target tenant depending on which tenant is used for HMA.

      Although the Exchange admin username and Exchange admin password are optional, these are required for PowerShell connections if you want to migrate delegates, auto-replies and forwarding addresses. You can provide these credentials later. See Configuring Connections for more details.

      

   9. Click Test Connection. If the connection is successfully verified, a confirmation message appears. Otherwise click Edit and re-enter the Microsoft Exchange administrator credentials.
   10. Click Save and Continue. You must successfully establish a connection to the Microsoft Exchange EWS endpoint to activate this button.
7. Step 3: Consents

   The migration service principals must be granted the necessary consents. See Consents and permissions for more information. If HMA is enabled then the consents for both tenants are displayed. If HMA is not enabled then only the consents for the source or target tenant that has the Exchange Online is displayed.

   

   To grant consent the service principals:

   1. Click Grant Consent to grant the consents to the service principal if the tenant consents were not granted when you added the tenant.

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      Click Regrant Consent to refresh the consents granted to the service principals. It is recommended that you regrant consent to ensure that the consent to the service principals are refreshed.

   2. Click Save and Continue.
8. Step 5: Overview
   1. Verify the information you have provided for each step. Click Edit to return to the step and revise the information as needed.
   2. Select Open Project to open the project dashboard.
   3. Click Finish to activate the project.

Viewing migration projects

1. Sign in to Quest On Demand.
2. From the navigation pane, click Migration to open the Migration projects view.
3. You can view the projects in two formats:
   1. Tile view
      • This view presents each project as a tile. Click from the view selector in the actions menu to select this view.
      • It is the default view and contains links to the migration workspaces from the set of icons in the tile.
      • You can sort the tiles by Date Created or Alphabetical from the sort criteria dropdown in the actions menu.
   2. List View
      • This view displays the projects as a list. Click from the view selector in the actions menu to select this view.
      • This view is useful when you have a large number of projects. Click on a column header to sort the list by its column values.

Renaming a migration project

1. Sign in to Quest On Demand.
2. From the navigation pane, click Migration to open the Migration projects view.
3. From the top right-hand corner of the project panel, click the More Actions icon (3 dots). Then click Rename Project.
4. Revise the name or description as needed.

   

5. Click Save Project Name to save the changes and close the dialog.

Deleting a migration project

1. Sign in to Quest On Demand.
2. From the navigation pane, click Migration to open the Migration projects view.
3. From the top right-hand corner of the project panel, click the More Actions icon (3 dots). Then click Delete Project.

   

4. Click OK to confirm the deletion.

On Demand Migration Workspaces

Click Open Project in the tile view or click a project name in the list view, to open its project workspace. The project workspace displays important information about your project and associated reports.

In each project, On Demand Migration also creates a migration workspace. The migration workspace is a logical collections of migration tools for the On Demand Hybrid Exchange assets and information about the assets in the source and target tenants.

You can go directly to the migration workspace by clicking the asset icon in the project tile. The icon you see will depend on your role, licenses and the assets selected when the project was created. You can hover over an icon to see the name of the asset type.