Release Notes
Quest® On Demand Migration
Release Notes
October 2019
These release notes provide information about the Quest® On Demand Migration release.
About On Demand Migration
On Demand Migration is a cloud-based application for migrating Azure AD users, groups, mailboxes, OneDrive for Business storages and other resources between Azure AD tenants. It is a part of Quest On Demand platform.
Key Features
Account Migration
- Pre-migration assessment:
- Analysis of the source Azure AD structure and the related resources, including Microsoft Office 365.
- Reports on problems, misconfiguration and potential risks that might adversely affect the migration.
- Migration and matching:
- Migrate Azure AD users, groups and the related information between tenants.
- Migrate Exchange Online mailboxes and share free/busy information between tenants.
- Map the existing accounts in the source and target Azure AD tenants for further resource processing.
- Shared resources processing / availability:
- Grant migrated accounts access to source tenant’s resources and applications.
- Provide access to SharePoint Online for the migrated users.
- Domain coexistence services, allowing to set mail sending from new/ original addresses and access cross-tenant data before the migration is finished
- OneDrive for Business data migration
- Robust project management interface and in-depth progress reporting.
Public Folders Migration
- Migrate Public Folders, including content
SharePoint Online migration
- Migrate sites, libraries, lists, and other SharePoint Online content.
- Migrate content permissions.
Release history
Current Release
2019/10/17
On Demand Migration now allows you to create projects for secure Public Folders migration from one Office 365 tenant to another Office 365 tenant. For more Information refer to On Demand Migration Administrator Guide.
Previous Releases
2019/10/15
Table 1: Enhancements
| Enhancement ID | Enhancement |
|---|---|
| ODM-1043 | Concurrent package submission and enhanced processing statistics is now supported for OneDrive migration. Refer to Tracking OneDrive Migration for details. |
| 170526 | Configuring connections step is now removed from SharePoint Online migration workflow to simplify the process. In case necessary permissions are not granted or expired, you will be notified to grant / regrant necessary admin consents.
Refer to SharePoint Online Migration for details. |
2019/11/10
The following issues are resolved in this release:
Table 2: Resolved issues
| Issue ID | Resolved Issue |
|---|---|
| ODM-1170 | Address Rewrite Service cannot be started or provisioned for Domain Coexistence and the following error message is reported: Failed to Setup Address Rewrite service. |
2019/09/26
SharePoint Online list templates are now migrated during SharePoint Online migration.
2019/09/19
Added support for SharePoint Online content migration from one Office 365 tenant to another Office 365 tenant. Refer to On Demand Migration Administrator Guide for details.
2019/09/10
Refer to the Known issues and limitations section for the list of issues, known to exist at the time of the release.
2019/09/05
Table 3: Enhancements
| Enhancement ID | Enhancement |
|---|---|
| ODM-1106 | Sharing permissions assignment for OneDrive migration is now optimized to met the latest Microsoft requirements. Refer to Sharing Permission Considerations for details. |
2019/07/18
This release introduces the following enhancements:
Table 4: Enhancements
| Enhancement ID | Enhancement |
|---|---|
| ODM-822 |
Sharing permissions assignment for OneDrive migration is now enhanced, the following options are now available for target storage:
Refer to Migrating OneDrive for details. |
2019/07/11
The following issues are resolved in this release:
Table 5: Resolved issues
| Issue ID | Resolved Issue |
|---|---|
| ODM-1009 | On Demand Migration does not copy the LegacyDN of source user to Target Email address attribute as X500 Address. |
2019/07/09
This release introduces the following enhancements:
Table 6: Enhancements
| Enhancement ID | Enhancement |
|---|---|
| ODM-700 | Usage location value setting is now supported for assigned Exchange Online and OneDrive for Business licensing plans. Refer to Migrating Mailboxes and to Migrating OneDrive for details on how this value is processed. |
2019/07/02
This release introduces the following enhancements:
Table 7: Enhancements
| Enhancement ID | Enhancement |
|---|---|
| ODM-901 | Shared with me view on OneDrive Online is now supported by On Demand Migration. Consider that sharing permissions are currently transferred for source accounts that have a matched account on the target tenant only. Refer to Sharing Permission Considerations for details. |
2019/05/30
This release introduces the following enhancements:
Table 8: Enhancements
| Enhancement ID | Enhancement |
|---|---|
| ODM-819 | Group permissions for content sharing are now supported during OneDrive migration. Refer to Sharing Permission Considerations for details. |
2019/05/14
This release introduces the following enhancements:
Table 9: Enhancements
| Enhancement ID | Enhancement |
|---|---|
| ODM-768 | On Demand Migration now introduces enhanced domain coexistence services, allowing use an unified domain in source or in target organization for outgoing emails before and after the mailboxes are migrated. See Address Rewriting Scenarios for details. The feature requires licensing. |
| ODM-817 | Folder permissions and inherited permissions are now supported during OneDrive migration. Refer to Migrating OneDrive for details. |
| ODM-79 |
On Demand Migration now can migrate Azure AD Office 365 Group Type objects, the membership is supported for the accounts that have a pairon the target tenant. Email address for migrated Office 365 Group object will be created in default target domain. NOTE: Office 365 Group content migration is not currently supported. |
2019/04/18
Table 10: Enhancements
| Enhancement ID | Enhancement |
|---|---|
| ODM-818 | Sharing permissions of external users are now supported during OneDrive Migration. |
2019/04/09
Table 11: Resolved Issues
| Issue ID | Resolved Issue |
|---|---|
| ODM-908 | Mailboxes may be skipped during Discovery in case the local parts of email addresses contains special characters. |
2019/04/04
This release introduces the following enhancements:
Table 12: Enhancements
| Enhancement ID | Enhancement |
|---|---|
| ODM-522 |
Source mailboxes that have archives are now reported on Assessment view of Mailboxes. NOTE: Re-run the discovery task with Include statistics on mailboxes option selected to start receiving statistics on mailboxes with archives. Use Inventory report to see statistics for these mailboxes and easily select them, if necessary. See Migrating Mailboxes for details. |
| ODM-824 |
Address Rewrite Service is now enhanced to rewrite email addresses for users added to coexistence space not only for "From", but also for "To" or "Cc" for all external recipients. For recipients that reside in source Exchange environment these email addresses remain unchanged. See Address Rewrite Service for details. |
| ODM-825 | OneDrive migration is now enhanced to transfer file sharing permissions for internal users. See Migrating OneDrive for details and File Sharing Permissions Considerations for information on how sharing permissions are handled for files and folders. |
Table 13: Resolved Issues
| Issue ID | Resolved Issue |
|---|---|
| ODM-778 |
The free/busy information may be incorrect in case Reply by meeting functionality is used in message from the user, which mail address had been rewritten using Address Rewrite Service. |
2019/03/19
This release introduces the following enhancements:
Table 14: Enhancements
| Enhancement ID | Enhancement |
|---|---|
| ODM-521 |
Mailbox Migration task is now improved to allow mailbox delegation migration. See Migrating Mailboxes for details. |
2019/02/18
Table 15: Resolved issues
| Issue ID | Resolved Issue |
|---|---|
| ODM-354 | Mail migration to archive mailbox scenario is now enhanced to ensure archive mailbox provisioning for the mail migration. NOTE: It can take a while to migrate mail to archive mailbox. |
2019/02/07
On Demand Migration now introduces the possibility to configure notifications for source and target mailbox owners. These notification messages will appear in the mailboxes after successful switch. See Configuring Notification for Mailbox owners for details.
2019/01/15
On Demand Migration now offers the domain coexistence services, allowing employees of newly acquired or merged organization to send mail from new addresses and access cross-tenant data before the migration is finished. See Address Rewrite Service for details. This feature requires licensing.
This release introduces the following enhancements:
Table 16: Enhancements
| Enhancement ID | Enhancement |
|---|---|
| ODM-620 | Mailbox Migration task is now improved. Mail folders selective transfer and Data range setting for content transfer options are now available. See Migrating Mailboxes for details. |
| ODM-181 | Mailbox type icons are now added to improve usability of the Mailboxes. |
2018/12/13
This release introduces the following enhancements:
Table 17: Enhancements
| Enhancement ID | Enhancement |
|---|---|
| ODM-628 | Processing statistics for OneDrive Migration tasks is now improved to provide more details about versions, files, or folders including statistics by version and by size after every batch is processed. |
| ODM-627 | Statistics is now enhanced to provide more details about every processed batch. OneDrive file version statistics by size is now available after every processed batch. |
2018/12/06
This release introduces the following enhancements:
Table 18: Enhancements
| Enhancement ID | Enhancement |
|---|---|
| ODM-725 | Licensing is now enhanced to consume one license per source user even in case if several target users can be paired with this source user. |
| ODM-621 | Now you can specify custom EWS URL in Configure Connections dialog in case you do not want to use EWS endpoint located by Autodiscover service automatically. See Advanced Options for details. |
2018/11/13
This release introduces the following enhancement:
Table 19: Enhancements
| Enhancement ID | Enhancement |
|---|---|
| ODM-475 | Statistics for OneDrive Migration tasks is now enhanced to provide more details about files or folders that are skipped, excluded, or transferred in every batch according to migration options selected by user. |
2018/10/25
This release introduces the following enhancement:
Table 20: Enhancements
| Enhancement ID | Enhancement |
|---|---|
| ODM-472 | Now OneDrive items that are skipped in case too long path or filename were specified cannot affect the successful OneDrive storage processing, and appropriate warning events are reported. |
2018/10/18
This release introduces the following enhancement:
Table 21: Enhancements
| Enhancement ID | Enhancement |
|---|---|
| ODM-580 | OneDrive content processing is now enhanced to skip batches is case these batches contain only files that have been already transferred. |
2018/10/04
This release introduces the following enhancement:
Table 22: Enhancements
| Enhancement ID | Enhancement |
|---|---|
| ODM-579 | OneDrive folders including subfolders in case an invalid path is specified by user are skipped during OneDrive storage processing and appropriate warning events are reported. |
2018/09/27
Table 23: Enhancements
| Enhancement ID | Enhancement |
|---|---|
| ODM-431 | Now the maximum number of concurrent PowerShell connections to your Exchange Online organization can be set according to the number that is allowed for your organization by Microsoft. You can set maximal value allowed for your organization to speed up the concurrent tasks completion. IMPORTANT: Do not exceed maximal number of concurrent PowerShell connections allowed for your organization to avoid throttling issues. |
| ODM-569 | The event descriptions for OneDrive Migration Tasks were improved. TIP: From Events list you can quickly navigate to the originating OneDrive Migration task or affected object, who owns the OneDrive storage processed. |
2018/09/25
This release introduces the following enhancement:
Table 24: Enhancements
| Enhancement ID | Enhancement |
|---|---|
| ODM-467 | OneDrive items that are skipped due to unexpected errors cannot affect the successful OneDrive storage processing and appropriate warning events are reported. |
2018/09/21
Table 25: Resolved issues
| Issue ID | Resolved Issue |
|---|---|
| ODM-534 | Unsupported attributes are no longer displayed in the Matching Task settings. |
| ODM-567 | Fixed "The service did not respond in a timely fashion" error that sometimes occurred during OneDrive migration. |
2018/09/18
Table 26: Resolved issues
| Issue ID | Resolved Issue |
|---|---|
| ODM-545 | Resolved an issue where the migration stops because there are multiple files or folders with the same path. This event is now logged and the migration continues. |
2018/09/11
This release introduces the following enhancements:
Table 27: Enhancements
| Enhancement ID | Enhancement |
|---|---|
| ODM-473 | Stability of OneDrive migration is now improved by processing large storages in batches. |
Table 28: Resolved issues
| Issue ID | Resolved Issue |
|---|---|
| ODM-299 | Now you can create the tasks containing more than 10,000 objects. |
2018/09/07
This release introduces the following enhancements:
Table 29: Enhancements
| Enhancement ID | Enhancement |
|---|---|
| ODM-34 | Guest User accounts migration is now supported. See Guest User Account Migration Considerations for details. |
| ODM-460 | Now the specific icon is used for Guest User accounts to distinguish them from the domain members. |
Table 30: Resolved issues
| Issue ID | Resolved Issue |
|---|---|
| ODM-492 | OneDrive Migration task may fail due to incorrect handling of Graph API throttling. Now this case is handled properly. |
2018/08/14
This release introduces the following enhancements:
Table 31: Enhancements
| Enhancement ID | Enhancement |
|---|---|
| ODM-200 | Now you can transfer OneDrive changes incrementally to speed up migration process. See Migrating OneDrive for details. |
| ODM-375 | Migration of delegate access permissions and folder permissions are now supported under Mail Migration task. See Migrating Mailboxes for details. |
2018/07/31
Table 32: Enhancements
| Enhancement ID | Enhancement |
|---|---|
| ODM-191 | Now you can add new empty collections and populate collections with discovered accounts using comma-separated CSV file. See Using Collections for details. |
2018/07/13
Table 33: Enhancements
| Enhancement ID | Enhancement |
|---|---|
| ODM-220 | Now you can select which objects will be skipped during OneDrive migration processing to speed up migration process. See Migrating OneDrive for details. |
Table 34: Resolved issues
| Issue ID | Resolved Issue |
|---|---|
| ODM-420 | Mail Migration task may fail with the following error message: 'Quest.Rest.RestException' was thrown.... Now this case is handled properly. |
2018/07/03
Table 35: Resolved issues
| Issue ID | Resolved Issue |
|---|---|
| ODM-412 | Mail Migration task may fail with the following error messages: Invalid operation while migration. Now this case is handled properly. |
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ODM-403 |
Discovery, Mailbox Switch, Calendar Sharing, or Migration task may fail in case the connection to On Demand platform is lost. Now the running tasks are suspended until the connection will be restored. |
2018/06/26
Table 36: Resolved issues
| Issue ID | Resolved Issue |
|---|---|
| ODM-406, ODM-407 | Mail Migration task may fail with the following error messages: Failed to migrate mail. Plan not found or Failed to migrate mail. Error occurred while executing the request. Unauthorized (Unauthorized).... Now these cases are handled properly. |
| ODM-355, ODM-378, ODM-405 | PowerShell session throttling is now supported and handled as temporary suspension of tasks. |
2018/06/05
Table 37: Enhancements
| Enhancement ID | Enhancement |
|---|---|
| ODM-198 | File versions migration for OneDrive is now supported. See Migrating OneDrive for details. IMPORTANT: Previous file versions are only migrated if their size is 80MB or less. If the size of the specific version exceeds 80MB, that version is skipped.
NOTE: Tasks that have been created before this update are set to migrate the latest version only. Edit these tasks and restart them in case you want to migrate previous versions. |
| ODM-174 | The task can be scheduled to run at the specific date and time. See Task Scheduling for details. |
| ODM - 287 | Tasks can have identical names. |
Table 38: Resolved issues
| Issue ID | Resolved Issue |
|---|---|
| ODM-362 |
In case any file cannot be migrated, the One Drive storage transfer does not stop, this file will be skipped, and this event will be reported to OneDrive user. |
| ODM-379 | Client Update Agent command line is now considered as case insensitive in all cases. |
2018/05/17
Table 39: Enhancements
| Enhancement ID | Enhancement |
|---|---|
| ODM-358 | OneDrive for Business migration process is now enhanced and OneDrive for Business licensing plans can now be assigned to target users. |
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IMPORTANT: Mail migration task licensing options for Exchange Online are also optimized. Verify how the licenses will be assigned to the target users during the mailbox provisioning in case you edit existing tasks. |
2018/05/04
Table 40: Enhancements
| Enhancement ID | Enhancement |
|---|---|
| ODM-285 | Manual mapping for groups is now supported. |
Table 41: Resolved issues
| Issue ID | Resolved Issue |
|---|---|
| ODM-288 | Filters applied on Accounts, Mailboxes and OneDrive tabs are now cleared when you switch between those tabs. |
Known issues
Known issues and limitations
The following is a list of issues, including those attributed to third-party products, known to exist at the time of release.
Table 42: General known issues
| Issue ID | Known Issue |
|---|---|
| PFM-76 | There is currently no way to stop running tasks. |
| PFM-77 | After migration to the target, the folder name remains unchanged, even the original source folder has been renamed. On Demand Migration does not support renaming folders. |
| ODM-1112 | If the Skip if the target file is the same version or newer option is selected, files that were previously migrated and for which additional sharing permissions have been added may not appear in the Shared With Me panel of users who have been granted this additional sharing permission. Workaround: re-run One Drive migration task with Overwrite target files for selected migration option selected. |
| ODM-872 | Statistics related to permissions can be incorrect in some specific cases. |
| ODM -855 | Deletion of target object after the migration may not be reported. |
| N/A | In case the created Mailbox Switch task is edited and the mail forwarding direction is changed, all selected notification messages will be readdressed, but the wizard may not display notification settings correctly. Workaround: Select Run later and finish the task to re-open it. After the task is re-opened you can see the actual notification settings. Now you can schedule the task as necessary. |
| ODM -784 |
Email addresses of recipients joined to address rewriting may stay unchanged in invitations to meetings. |
| N/A | If you remove a tenant that is currently used in migration projects from On Demand, the affected projects can still be opened without any alerts or notifications. However, all project tasks will fail. |
| ODM-176 | Mail Migration Task Wizard cannot be finished if you add and then clear the value in Exclude mail before and Exclude mail after fields. Workaround: Close the wizard and create a task anew. |
| DO-728 | Double-clicking Finish button in wizards may result in creating several duplicate tasks. |
| N/A | All accounts must be matched or migrated before migrating the groups they belong to, or with the same task that migrate groups. Otherwise, the newly migrated accounts will not be added to the target groups. Workaround: Re-migrate the affected groups after all their members are migrated. |
| ODM-309 | If you migrate a mail-enabled group with non mail-enabled members, some of those users might not be added to the target group. The following error is displayed for each affected user: "Group membership migration completed with errors. Couldn't find object [User GUID]. Please make sure that it was spelled correctly or specify a different object." Workaround: Re-migrate the affected groups. |
| ODM-335 | Deleting or moving a file in the OneDrive storage that is currently being migrated may result in aborting the storage transfer with Content transfer failed error. Other storages from the migration task are not affected. Workaround: Re-migrate the failed storage. |
| ODM-293 | A search query entered by user to filter content may be lost in case the user switches tab. |
| ODM-37 | Migration of Microsoft Office 365 groups and security groups with dynamic membership is not supported. |
Table 43: SharePoint Online migration known issues
| Issue ID | Known Issue |
|---|---|
| 157005 | Migrated discussion board replies are not tagged as "Best reply" on target. |
| 161588 | Custom content type assigned to documents is not migrated. All documents will have the default content type on target. |
| 168288 | Discussion List created by the site Community feature is renamed to Community Discussion in Team site (STS#3 template.) |
| 169663 | Files and list items are not migrated to subsites with the following characters in the URL: <, >, &, ", ' |
| 161760 | Site collection status is not updated if the migration task includes more than one site collection. |
| 164683 | The search field shows a limited number of characters. Only the first 22 characters are visible for the long search queries. |
Incident response management
Quest Operations and Quest Support have procedures in place to monitor the health of the system and ensure any degradation of the service is promptly identified and resolved. On Demand Migration relies on Microsoft Azure infrastructure and as such is subject to the possible disruption of the related services.
You can view the following status pages:
- Quest On Demand: https://status.quest-on-demand.com/
- Azure Services: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-ca/status/
- AWS Services: https://status.aws.amazon.com/