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Title
How to manually map and migrate Microsoft Team/Sharepoint site -
Description
ODM semi-automated Team migration is not always suitable to Team migration' customization process. For example, when it's needed to migrate source Team-linked SharePoint site to the specific target Team SharePoint site.
How to prepare the environment for ODM to properly migrate source Team to the target Team with specific SharePoint site linked to it? -
Resolution
To work around the issue follow these steps.
As an example scenario, when dealing with TeamX (Team or M365 Group) and initial migration of the source Team already created one in the target.
- In target tenant Admin Center, check what SP URL the TeamX is linked to.
- Delete TeamX
- Go to SharePoint Admin and make sure that TeamX SP site is deleted from Active Sites and not present in Deleted Sites
- If it's in Deleted Sites, see if this can be purged.
- If not, use PowerShell to delete the site
SP sites w/ Teams that cannot be deleted from SP recycle bin. Way to delete SP and not Teams mig? (4256777) (quest.com)
Once the target TeamX/SP site is gone:- From ODM UI, remove TeamX
- Rediscover the source site from the Sharepoint Module. Run a discovery for the entire tenant or only for the specific site associated with the Team, using CSV file.
- From ODM UI, Discover the source Teams from the Teams Module. Run a discovery for the entire tenant or only for the specific Team, using a CSV file.
- In the SharePoint module Map source TeamX to the target TeamX using CSV file. Here you can enter the modified address for the new target teams.
- In the Teams module Map source TeamX to the target TeamX using CSV file.
- In the Teams Module, Run the TeamX provisioning task with options set to Merge.
Once provisioning is done, migrate the TeamX. It should migrate the whole content.
Once the task is complete, verify if SharePoint content was migrated. If not, drill down to List level in the SharePoint, and migrate the List specifically (make sure it's pointing to the proper target SharePoint URL).