April 03, 2024
Enhancements
| Module | ID | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Teams & Groups Migration | 479468 | A Quick Help dialog is now available from the Getting Started tile in the Teams Dashboard. |
Resolved issues
| Module | ID | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Account Migration | 480431 | The key was not present in the dictionary during Account discovery via security group. |
| Mail Migration | 459764 | Both "Mailbox Status" and "Archive Mailbox State" shows the same value while an archive mail task is running. |
| SharePoint Migration | 484609 | Users with custom admin role are unable to import collections in an On Demand Migration for SharePoint project. |
March 26, 2024
Deprecated Features
| Module | ID | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Teams & Groups Migration | 478290 | In the Migration Actions step of the New Chats Migration Task wizard, you cannot select both options: Migrate to live chat and Use additional Team Chats licenses for faster archiving, in the same task. |
Resolved issues
| Module | ID | Description |
|---|---|---|
| SharePoint Migration | 473412 | Migration between classic and modern team sites not allowed when M365 group has been enabled on the site. |
| SharePoint Migration | 481506 | Batch with parent reference error was not being set to failed. |
| SharePoint Migration | 482494 | Batch import fails if item authorship set to SharePoint Group. |
| SharePoint Migration | 482704 | Repair flow fails when export manifest does not contain SPListItem element. |
| SharePoint Migration | 483464 | Conflict resolution fails if filename contains special character. |
| SharePoint Migration | 483571,483810 | Internal errors causing unnecessary import job monitoring error events to be logged. |
March 20, 2024
Resolved issues
| Module | ID | Description |
|---|---|---|
| SharePoint Migration | 480231 | Wrong size of file information causing file download to fail. |
| SharePoint Migration | 481194 | Download failure during batch preparation could cause the whole batch to fail. |
| SharePoint Migration | 481506 | Files in batch were not recorded in failed file table when batch failed unexpectedly. |
| SharePoint Migration | 481172 | Transient Exceptions were not being retried properly. |
| SharePoint Migration | 479615 | Export manifests are being overwritten during auto repair. |
March 05, 2024
Resolved issues
| Module | ID | Description |
|---|---|---|
| SharePoint Migration | 475616 | Incorrect links within the "Quick Links" web part when a root site is mapped to a path based site collection. |
| SharePoint Migration | 479349, 479868 | Export job time out too short when job postponed messages are received. |
| SharePoint Migration | 473796 | Issue matching files with same name but different IDs during conflict resolution checks. |
| SharePoint Migration | 475631 | Incremental migrations of STS#0 classic teams template sites that were upgraded to STS#3 modern teams template sites fails. |
| SharePoint Migration | 476439 | "Export" button missing on "Events" tab in SharePoint project for users with Read only permissions. |
| SharePoint Migration | 479286 | Cleanup of missing file table may result in missing files not being remigrated. |
| SharePoint Migration | 479353 | Cleanup of failed tasks affecting other in progress tasks for large lists (with export splitting). |
| SharePoint Migration | 479328 | Migrating very large files may time out. |
| SharePoint Migration | 479300 | Folders may be misplaced during migrations. |
February 28, 2024
Enhancements
| Module | ID | Description |
|---|---|---|
| SharePoint Migration | 467015 | CSV file templates are now available for download from the following wizards: New Discover Sites From File Task, Import Collections From File, New Mapping from File Task, New Map Geo Locations Term Store Task and New Map Geo Location Task wizards. |
Resolved issues
| Module | ID | Description |
|---|---|---|
| SharePoint Migration | 474604 | Migration batches fail due to "Unable to log metric" message. |
| SharePoint Migration | 456242 | Adequate error message is not available when migration is skipped because Information Barrier feature is enabled. |
| SharePoint Migration | 479288 | File content replaced with throttling message under heavy throttle load. |
February 27, 2024
Enhancements
| Module | ID | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Teams & Groups Migration | 469293 | A new option Create private chat with link to archived messages file in the Migration Actions step of the New Chats Migration Task wizard lets you create a private chat message in the target tenant that contains a link to the archived messages (HTML) file. This option is available when you select the Archive remaining messages option in the same step. |
| Teams & Groups Migration | 450939 | To manage large lists of M365 groups in a project, you can remove one or more M365 groups from the groups list view that you don't need for migration. |
Resolved issues
| Module | ID | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Account Migration | 469751 | CSV header names in exported files do not match the columns names. |
February 20, 2024
Enhancements
| Module | ID | Description |
|---|---|---|
| OneDrive Migration | 470983 | With the new All items that were added or modified since the last successful migrationoption in the Filter Items step of the New OneDrive Migration Task wizard, you can migrate items that were added or modified in the source OneDrive since the last successful migration.
The new column Last Successful Run in the OneDrive List View indicates the date and time of the last successful migration. It is also available as a predefined filter. |
February 16, 2024
New Features
| Module | Feature | Description |
|---|---|---|
| General Migration | Comparison Reports | Comparison reports provide detailed information about various assets in the source and target tenants. These reports can be downloaded as Microsoft Excel files for offline inspection, migration planning and verification. Comparison reports are generated every time you run a Collect Statistics task on a target tenant for an Office 365 asset. |
| SharePoint Migration | Collect Statistics | The Collect SharePoint Statistics Task conducts an assessment of all SharePoint sites in the source tenant and matching sites in the target tenant. You can choose to generate Comparison Reports from the task wizard. When the task completes, you can download a Premigration report from the task details pane. If a Comparison report was generated, you can download the report from the task detail pane as well. |
Enhancements
| Module | ID | Description |
|---|---|---|
| General Migration | 458865 | Click Find a Possible Resolution in the event detail pane of error events, to look for a solution from among the applicable Knowledge Base (KB) articles in the Quest website. |
| Account Migration | 438816 | The Collect statistics from target option in the New Collect Account Statistics Task wizard lets you collect account statistics from the target tenant and generate a Comparison Report. |
| Mail Migration | 438819 | The Collect statistics from target option in the New Collect Mailbox Statistics Task wizard lets you collect mailbox statistics from the target tenant and generate a Comparison Report. |
| OneDrive Migration | 438821 | The Include collection of item count from target OneDrive accounts option in the New Collect OneDrive Statistics Task wizard lets you collect OneDrive statistics from the target tenant and generate a Comparison Report. |
| SharePoint Migration | 476854 | The menu structure in the SharePoint Contents tab has changed: To discover SharePoint objects click Discovery and then click one of the following:
To match SharePoint sites, click More and then click Match. |
| Teams & Groups Migration | 438824 | The Include collection of statistics from target tenant option in the New Collect Teams Statistics Task wizard and the New Collect Group Statistics Task wizard lets you collect team and M365 group statistics respectively, from the target tenant and generate a Comparison Report. |
Resolved issues
| Module | ID | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Account Migration | 460774 | Some source accounts are migrated to unmatched target accounts |
January 23, 2024
Enhancements
| Module | ID | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Account Migration | 467977 | You can download CSV templates from the New Account Discovery Taskwizard when you choose the following actions: Discover from file and Discover from security groups |
| Account Migration | 468655 | You can download CSV templates from the New Account Mapping from File Task wizard when you choose the following action: Map From File |
| Account Migration | 469003 | You can download CSV templates from the Import Collections from File dialog. |
| Account Migration | 469005 | You can download CSV templates from the New Account Resource Processing Task wizard when you choose the following action: Process Resources |
| Mail Migration | 446223 | New list view predefined filter for Mailbox Type |
| Mail Migration | 469752 | New list view predefined filter for Archive Mailbox Status |
| Teams & Groups Migration | 469290 | A new tile for Chats has been added to the Teams dashboard |
January 16, 2024
Enhancements
| Module | ID | Description |
|---|---|---|
| SharePoint Migration | 450962 | Added link to Reports page from List object details in the SharePoint Content page. Reports are pre-filtered for the selected list object. |
| SharePoint Migration | 450963 | Added link to Reports page from Task details in task page. Reports are pre-filtered for the selected task. |
Resolved issues
| Module | ID | Description |
|---|---|---|
| SharePoint Migration | 458022 | Template mismatch errors does not stop migration. |
| SharePoint Migration | 465679 | Error when migrating versions and some web parts of Home.aspx page |
| SharePoint Migration | 465833 | Stopped task getting set incorrectly to "Completed" in the UI but keeps running in the backend and keeps adding events in the UI |
| SharePoint Migration | 468794 | Group role assignments are not migrated correctly for all items |
January 11, 2024
New Features
| Module | Feature | Description |
|---|---|---|
| General Migration | PowerShell support | You can use the On Demand Migration PowerShell API to interact with objects in your On Demand Migration environment. The PowerShell cmdlets allow you to perform tasks, such as account discovery, mail migration, OneDrive migration, task and event management in a PowerShell scripting environment.
For more information about downloading and using the API module, see the Using PowerShell chapter in Appendix A of the On Demand Migration User Guide. |
| SharePoint Migration | Migrating Term Stores | On Demand supports Term Store migration for single and multi-geo locations. You can map geo-locations similar to how sites can be mapped to different geo-locations. A dedicated page for managing Term Stores is provided where you can discover and migrate the Term Stores with easy-to-use wizards. |
Enhancements
| Module | ID | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Mail Migration | 462002 | "Not Set" has been added to the mail flow filter in the Mailboxes tab |
| Mail Migration | 462003 | A GUI warning will be displayed that indicates that migrating OWA Rules will replace/delete/overwrite target rules. |
| Teams & Groups Migration | 459773 | Two new options: SharePoint Permission Options and SharePoint File Options, are now available in the The New Teams Migration Task and New Groups Migration Task wizards. These option will help you control the migration of associated SharePoint content when you migrate Teams or Groups. |
| Teams & Groups Migration | 452639 | The notification panel has been added to all tabs in the Teams and Groups workspace. |
Resolved issues
| Module | ID | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Account Migration | 462272 | MLM processes meetings from the past. |
November 29, 2023
Enhancements
| Module | ID | Description |
|---|---|---|
| SharePoint Migration | 449812 | Additional list item migration information has been added to the event details pane for events prefixed with the term "Bulk Listtems" |
| SharePoint Migration | 450276 | Improved handling of skipped files in failed file report |
Resolved issues
| Module | ID | Description |
|---|---|---|
| SharePoint Migration | 452696 | Improved handling of message length to avoid memory issues. |
| SharePoint Migration | 455981 | Custom content types that are being inherited from the built-in "Document Set" are not being migrated correctly when source and target default language is different. |
| SharePoint Migration | 458697 | Migration of a SharePoint site mapped a to a different url after a SharePoint Content discovery task, migrates the site to the incorrect target url. |
| SharePoint Migration | 460137 | Special characters in terms causes migration to fail and stop. |
| SharePoint Migration | 460573 | Child webs of a promoted site were not migrated correctly. |
| SharePoint Migration | 460733 | Added check to MS Import job end processing to confirm if batch failed in unexpected way. |
November 21, 2023
Enhancements
| Module | ID | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Teams & Groups Migration | 439627 | Use the Rename mail nick name option in the Mapping options step of the New Teams & Groups Rename and Map Task wizard to add a prefix or suffix to the target team or group |
November 07, 2023
Enhancements
| Module | ID | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Account Migration | 451095 | Enabled Mail-Sync for Archive migrations that allow the following migrations: Archive to Primary mailbox, Primary to Archive mailbox, and Archive to Archive mailbox. |
| Mail Migration | 455961, 455977 | Added protection to fail mail migration if the source and target archive mailboxes have the same GUIDs |
Resolved issues
| Module | ID | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Account Migration | 457937 | The Account State filter is showing '0' for all states |
| SharePoint Migration | 445535 | File downloads are stalling periodically. |
| SharePoint Migration | 453036 | Document Library type web part pointing to the non-default Documents library is corrupted. |
| SharePoint Migration | 455833 | Limited Access roles are migrated unnecessarily. |
| SharePoint Migration | 453895 | Clear select objects setting resulted in object being cleared twice. |
| SharePoint Migration | 456434 | Microsoft Export API calls that are being postponed were timing out. |
| SharePoint Migration | 429428 | Versions of large files were failing to migrate. |
November 01, 2023
New Features
| Module | Feature | Description |
|---|---|---|
| General Migration | Premigration Reports |
The new Reports tab in the Projects workspace lets you view and download premigration reports or delete previously created reports. Premigration reports are available for Accounts, Mailboxes, OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams, and Groups. Reports are created in XLSX format and downloadable as a ZIP file from respective Collect Statistics Task details pane or from the new Reports view. New permissions are available for role based access control (RBAC): View migration reports and View reporting dashboard. |
| Account Migration | Premigration Reports | Create a New Collect Account Statistics Task to generate a premigration report which you can download from the task details pane or the new Reports tab in the project workspace. |
Enhancements
| Module | ID | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Account Migration | 443949 | Column filters have been added to some columns in the Accounts list. |
| Mail Migration | 445822 | The Collect Mailbox Statistics Task generates a premigration report which you can download from the task details pane or the new Reports tab in the project workspace. |
| OneDrive Migration | 406052 | The Collect OneDrive Statistics Task generates a premigration report which you can download from the task details pane or the new Reports tab in the project workspace. |
| Teams & Groups Migration | 438813 | The Collect Teams Statistics Task and Collect Group Statistics Task generates premigration reports respectively which you can download from the task details pane or the new Reports tab in the project workspace. |
October 24, 2023
Resolved issues
| Module | ID | Description |
|---|---|---|
| SharePoint Migration | 450561 | Term store synonyms and translations not migrating correctly. |
| SharePoint Migration | 447232 | Some batch preparations failing due to request authentication issues. |
| SharePoint Migration | 453559 | Tasks with 1000s of objects selected time out at start up due to issues with redundant no script updates |
| OneDrive Migration | 451147 | Improved warning message to indicate that a file cannot be migrated because the filename contains a Unicode character. |
September 26, 2023
Enhancements
| Module | ID | Description |
|---|---|---|
| SharePoint Migration | 425812 | Auto re-run list item migrations to retry missing items option in the List Options step of the New SharePoint Migration Task wizard, is available for all regions. |
| SharePoint Migration | 440747 | The incremental flow for list migration that supports cases where Microsoft incremental migration fails, is available for all regions. |
| SharePoint Migration | 428178 | Migration of lists with lookup columns are ordered to support lists with nested lookup columns. |
| Teams & Groups Migration | 439622 | Whiteboard tabs are migrated if the Whiteboard files, in the OneDrive of the Whiteboard creator, is pre-imgrated to the target tenant. At least one team owner must have permission to the whiteboard file in source tenant. Whiteboard tabs will be migrated as Weblink tabs in target. |
Resolved issues
| Module | ID | Description |
|---|---|---|
| SharePoint Migration | 447849 | Columns with blank column data was not migrated correctly for versions of the list item |
| SharePoint Migration | 448363 | Calculated column causing other list columns to not be migrated |
| SharePoint Migration | 444927, 447241, 448004 | JSON deserialization errors under load were not handled properly |
| Teams & Groups Migration | 448557 | Microsoft does not allow a single user have more than 20000 Planner items under their account. ODM uses the Migration Administrator account to copy the Planners into the target and can hit this 20000 limit. |
