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Quest® On Demand Migration

July 17, 2024

Quest® On Demand Migration is a Microsoft 365 tenant-to-tenant migration service that allows you to simply and securely migrate Microsoft 365 information from Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint and Teams. It is a part of the Quest® On Demand cloud-based platform solution.

These release notes provide information about the latest Quest® On Demand Migration release.


 

Enhancements

The following is a list of enhancements implemented in On Demand Migration.

 

Teams and Groups Migration

Enhancement ID
Teams - Minimal: This new On Demand Migration consent should be used for the source tenant only. This is the minimal consent required to read Entra ID and Teams content from the source tenants.

Teams - Full: This new On Demand Migration consent can be used for the source and target tenants. This consent is required to read and write Entra ID and Teams content from the source to the target tenant.

Migration - Teams is now a legacy consent and should be replaced by either the Minimal or Full consents.

495484

 

Known Issues

The following is a list of issues, including those attributed to third-party products, known to exist at the time of release.

General known issues

Known Issue Issue ID
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: Remove and re-grant permissions directly to previously migrated files in the target. ODM-1112
Statistics related to permissions can be incorrect in some specific cases. ODM-872
Deletion of target object after the migration may not be reported. ODM -855
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. 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. N/A
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. ODM-176
Double-clicking Finish button in wizards may result in creating several duplicate tasks. DO-728
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. N/A
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-309
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-335
A search query entered by user to filter content may be lost in case the user switches tab. ODM-293
Migration of Microsoft Office 365 groups and security groups with dynamic membership is not supported. ODM-37
Migration fails if internal account is matched with external account and the following message is reported: Property usageLocation is invalid / Insufficient privileges to complete the operation ODM-1576
Migration of security group to distribution list or to mail-enabled security group fails (this migration cannot be supported) and the following message is reported: Unable to update the specified properties for objects that have originated within an external service ODM-1566
Migration of Office 365 group to distribution list or to mail-enabled security group fails (this migration cannot be supported) and the following message is reported: REST API is not yet supported for this mailbox. ODM -1567

After the migration, the calendar invites with Teams links may need to be updated.

ODM -788
In case of re-migration, On Demand Migration re-migrates mail and calendar items that have changed in the source mailbox to the target mailbox. Also, calendar items that have been removed from the source mailbox will be removed from the target mailbox. Re-migration of other types of items that have been modified or deleted in the source mailbox is not supported. 4781288-1

Address Rewriting
Due to Microsoft's Exchange Online limits on messages sent from the tenant that are calculated according to purchased Exchange Online licenses, some of the sent messages exceeding this limit will not be delivered within 24 hours and will wait in the queue to be send next day. If waiting time will be longer than 24 hours, the sender will receive an NDR.

Workaround: To increase bandwidth you need to purchase more Exchange Online licenses

4783213-1

Account migration known issues

Known Issue Issue ID
Resource Processing is not available when GCC High tenants are used. Resource Processing is only available with commercial tenants. 251283
Source UPN and Primary SMTP will be used after migration for existing target hybrid accounts. ODM-1251
In case of re-migration of hybrid account the Migration task state may appear to be completed before the actual completion. ODM-1174
Source user mailbox is required to be kept to ensure receiving of mail messages addressed to this mailbox after migration. To remove these mailboxes you can manually configure forwarding in on-premises environment for all affected accounts after target mailboxes are provisioned. ODM-1345
Hybrid accounts has New status even in case these accounts are in progress. ODM-1053
Matching task may hang with In progress state in case on-premises connection credentials are not configured. No events are reported.
ODM-1383
Matching task may hang with In progress state in case of any issues related to connection problem of integration service, e.g., secret is not installed properly or unavailable. ODM-1469
In case matched target hybrid account is removed intentionally, but source account is selected for the migration task, the target object will be provisioned and no event is reported. ODM-1292
In case of any target conflicts related to existing objects in on-premises part processed by Quest Migration Manager, events generated by Quest Migration Manager will not appear in Events. ODM-1255
Migration Task progress may be reported incorrectly. Refer to task details for actual information. ODM-1175
Mail flow is not currently displayed for migrated objects. ODM-1376

Mail addressed to target Room/Equipment/shared mailbox will not be redirected to source. Reason: forwarding from target to source after account migration for Room / Equipment / shared mailbox is not set.

ODM-1344
In case object is removed in source, during re-migration this object cannot be included in migration scope, but object status remains unchanged. In task details this object status is New. ODM-1331
Migration tasks may hang with In progress state in case of any issues related to integration with Quest Migration Manager. No events are reported.
ODM-1332

Resource processing To allow target users access source SharePoint, linked guest users were created in the source and On Demand Migration immediately attempts to grant these user accounts necessary direct permissions. It can take time for guest accounts to replicate to SharePoint, which can result in a "User not found" error message for a guest account that has not yet been replicated during granting permissions.

Workaround: Retry the SharePoint processing later.

ODM-1878

Mailbox migration known issues

Known Issue ID
A Meeting link migration task does not preserve the "time zone" settings for the calendar items. The meeting start time and the end time properties will be converted to UTC. 353269

OneDrive migration known issues

Known Issue ID
If Migrate Sharing Link Permissions option is selected, some link sharing permissions will not migrate properly if the user has shared this file or folder with more than 30 users. Only 30 users will have permissions from the Sharing Links, while others will not be processed due to a Microsoft limitation. ODM-1640

Public folder migration known issues

Known Issue ID
There is currently no way to stop running tasks. PFM-76
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. PFM-77

SharePoint migration known issues

Known Issue ID
When using collections with On Demand Migration for SharePoint, if a site is added to a collection after running a Discover SharePoint Contents task for the site, the child objects will not be added to the collection. Re-run the Discover SharePoint Contents task for the site to add the child objects to the collection.  
When using collections with On Demand Migration for SharePoint, if a SharePoint object is added to a collection without its parent or child elements, the SHOW PARENT and SHOW CONTENTS buttons may be active but will link to a blank a filtered list because the child or parent is not included in the collection.  
When using collections with On Demand Migration for SharePoint, note that the Remove from Collection and Remove Collection functions are not yet available.  
Files and List Items cannot be migrated if same entities exist in target recycle bin. 163227,179261
The following events may be reported while migrating some folders from Document Libraries connected to Microsoft Teams: A file or folder with the name ... already exists... and Failed to lookup file info of object... The migration proceeds as expected. 173081
After migration the system account is specified as an author of migrated folder instead of the source folder author. 171641
Web address of this view in List View settings cannot be updated due to SharePoint limitations. 169946
Migrated discussion board replies are not tagged as "Best reply" on target. 157005
Custom content type assigned to documents is not migrated. All documents will have the default content type on target. 161588
Discussion List created by the site Community feature is renamed to Community Discussion in Team site (STS#3 template.) 168288
Files and list items are not migrated to subsites with the following characters in the URL: <, >, &, ", ' 169663
Site collection status is not updated if the migration task includes more than one site collection. 161760

The search field shows a limited number of characters. Only the first 22 characters are visible for the long search queries.

164683
Hub settings for sites located in non-central regions of a multi-geo tenant cannot be migrated. The hub and spoke relationship for sites in non-central regions must be built manually after the site migrations are complete. 324054
Out-of-the box list items get duplicated when migrating for the first time 413379
Conflict resolution rules will not be applied to Site Pages and Site Assets system libraries 424578

Teams migration known issues

Known Issue ID

If the external sharing settings of the target tenant is more restrictive than the settings in the source tenant, then Office 365 groups and SharePoint items cannot be migrated tot he target tenant.

Workaround: Ensure that sharing settings in the target tenant is the same or less restrictive than the source tenant. You must create a fresh task to migrate the items.

259757
On Demand cannot migrate a file if the SharePoint admin center (under Settings | Site Creation) has been used to change the default URL. 240044
Meeting links in Teams calendar items of migrated teams don't work because the links still point to source tenant. 196069
Tabs will not be created in the target channels during migration due a limitation of the Microsoft API. Microsoft creates tabs automatically during teams creation in the target tenant. 492538
Resource processingIf EDU team group has been migrated in the Account Migration project first and then this EDU team is provisioned in the Teams Migration project, the error "Request failed with BadRequest status code (Bad Request)" is reported.

Workaround: Delete the EDU team group created by Account Migration, then perform discovery and provision with Teams Migration project.

N/A
When teams are provisioned with the option to merge with an existing team in the target tenant and a new channel is created with the original name plus suffix, the SharePoint folder for the new channel retains the original name. 345807
When two or more users are participants in a chat, the chat migration task event is not linked to any particular user. 256913
Links to attachments in chats that are migrated and archived cannot be opened from the Conversation History in the Teams client if you left-click the link.

Workaround: Right-click the attachment and select Open Link in New Tab or Open Link in New Window from the context menu.

313562
Replies to private chats are migrated as regular chats but the reference to the original chat is not retained. 339662
Unexpected error occurs in a chat discovery task when matched users are deleted in the source tenant 391675
When the same chat is migrated simultaneously by two tasks, a failure in one task leads to a failure in the other with the following error message: The initiator <service-id> is not a member of the roster <chat-id> 392613
If a user is a participant in a group chat in the source tenant, the chat will appear in the target tenant for the same user after migration even if the chat was deleted by the user from the source tenant. 426538
Loop Components in chats are not migrated 425482

Release History

July 09, 2024

Resolved issues

Module ID Description
Mail Migration 491619 Collect Statistics task batches fail if any mailbox in a batch throws an exception.
SharePoint Migration 499158 Files failed to migrate due to inconsistent version information in export manifest files.
SharePoint Migration 499160 Files failed to migrate if list is in target recycle bin – check and warning event added.
SharePoint Migration 500069 Collect Statistics fails to discover lists if site is set to read only.
SharePoint Migration 501215 Wiki Page links do not work when pointing to different web within the site.

June 27, 2024

Enhancements

Module ID Description
SharePoint Migration 500274

Revised and added new options in the List Options step of the New SharePoint Migration Task wizard to determine how changes to list items that were previously migrated should be remigrated.

  • Migrate all list items
  • Migrate new, updated and failed list items
    • Perform an incremental migration
    • Perform a full comparison migration

June 25, 2024

Enhancements

Module ID Description
General Migration 493660 On Demand Migration PowerShell API now supports on-premise Microsoft Exchange.

Resolved issues

Module ID Description
SharePoint Migration 495651 Global (Top bar) navigation elements are not migrating when migrating root site to managed site.
SharePoint Migration 496088 People field in the "Title Area" Web Part does not include user information for unmapped users.
SharePoint Migration 496576 WebContentType migration is very slow if there are lots of Document Set Content types.
SharePoint Migration 497016 The Thumbnail images of news links in the "News" web part are not preserved.
SharePoint Migration 498430 "DenyAddCustomizePages" may be re-enabled automatically causing Site page library migration to fail.

June 11, 2024

Resolved issues

Module ID Description
SharePoint Migration 492795 A bad url for banner image causes web page migration to fail if the image is in OneDrive.
SharePoint Migration 494486 Throughput chart data is not correct under high load and volume.
SharePoint Migration 495033 Lists with same display name are getting mapped and merged to the same list in the target.
SharePoint Migration 495390 Some links in Quick Links web parts are broken when migrating SharePoint root site to a managed site.
SharePoint Migration 495461 Role permissions missing for list items when changes to site permissions are migrated.
SharePoint Migration 495651 Global top bar navigation elements are not migrating.

June 04, 2024

Enhancements

Module ID Description
General Migration 492247 The Migration Project Viewer role can now export reports from Accounts, Mailboxes and OneDrive tabs.
Account Migration 491623

The following columns are now available on the Account List View: Source Mailbox, Target Mailbox

Mail Migration 491623

The following columns are now available on the Mailboxes List View: Source UPN, Target UPN

Public Folder Migration 489423, 491066 The following new options are now available in the Options step of the New Public Folder Migration Task wizard:
  • Migrate public folder permissions
  • Migrate mail enabled
  • Migrate mailbox permissions

Resolved issues

Module ID Description
Mail Migration 480056 When mail migration fails due to the same archive GUID, the Task Status should be "Failed" instead of "Completed with issues".

May 28, 2024

Resolved issues

Module ID Description
Mail Migration 492403 UI displays '0.0 undefined' for Mailbox Collect Statistics.
SharePoint Migration 492354 New parent folder structure not migrated properly for incremental migration and folders in different batches.
SharePoint Migration 491248 Discovery of external list with BDC columns causes discovery of web SharePoint content to fail.
SharePoint Migration 492556 Discovery of a list with many content types causes discovery of web SharePoint content to fail.
SharePoint Migration 492795 Transformation of Url for banner image web part in site pages causes migration of site page to fail.
SharePoint Migration 493374 Transformation of Urls for Image and News web parts in site pages not processed properly.
SharePoint Migration 494189 Migration of Web-Only Limited Access permissions causing web permissions to not be migrated correctly.

May 22, 2024

Resolved issues

Module ID Description
Teams & Groups Migration 455672 When a channel get renamed during migration, missing folder mapping causes the file tab to be empty in target tenant after migration.

May 14, 2024

Deprecated Features

Module ID Description
SharePoint Migration 467058 SharePoint: This is now a legacy On Demand Migration consent for existing tenants. This consent grants access Entra ID and SharePoint Online to read SharePoint, OneDrive and Teams content from the source tenant and write content in the target tenant.

Enhancements

Module ID Description
OneDrive Migration 467058 OneDrive - Minimal: This new On Demand Migration consent can be used for the source tenant only. This is the minimal consent required to access Entra ID and SharePoint Online to read OneDrive content from the source tenant.

OneDrive - Full: This new On Demand Migration consent can be used for the source and target tenants. This consent required to access Entra ID and SharePoint Online to read OneDrive content from the source tenant and write content in the target tenant.

SharePoint Migration 467058 SharePoint - Minimal: This new On Demand Migration consent can be used for the source tenant only. This is the minimal consent required to access Entra ID and SharePoint Online to read SharePoint and Teams content from the source tenant.

SharePoint - Full: This new On Demand Migration consent can be used for the source and target tenants. This consent required to access Entra ID and SharePoint Online to read SharePoint and Teams content from the source tenant and write content in the target tenant.

Resolved issues

Module ID Description
Mail Migration 490730 Error in Collect Mailbox Statistics Task due to missing Recoverable Items folder tree
SharePoint Migration 490581 Image links in wiki pages not remapped correctly.
SharePoint Migration 491504 Disabled links on the sources migrated as enabled on the target.
SharePoint Migration 490582 Reference issue with hub sites.

May 08, 2024

Enhancements

Module ID Description
Teams & Groups Migration 488260 Tabs in the Quick Help dialog helps you focus on specific help topics for Teams, Groups and Chats.

May 07, 2024

Enhancements

Module ID Description
Mail Migration 481861 New option Migrate Safe Sender and Blocked List added to the Migration Options step of the New Mail Migration Task wizard.

May 01, 2024

Deprecated Features

Module ID Description
Account Migration 446256 Resource processing will be available to new users only upon request. Existing users who have used this feature in the last 3 months can continue to use it. Documentation about this feature is available as a KB article and not in the User Guide. Call Quest Technical Support to activate Resource Processing.

Enhancements

Module ID Description
General Migration 464159 The On Demand Migration projects view has been enhanced with a new tile format and list view options to provide easier navigation.
General Migration 489266 Click the dropdown in the list selector column of any list to use the new list capabilities like Select All, Select All on Page and Reset Selection.
  446256 The option Item level permissions are not processed has been added to the Processing Options step of the New Account Resource Processing Task wizard. You can select this option to use inherited permissions for list items etc. Resource processing works faster when this option is selected
Teams & Groups Migration 485991 The Use additional Team Chats licenses for faster archiving option in the Migration Actions step of the New Chats Migration Task wizard has been reinstated.

Resolved issues

Module ID Description
Account Migration 469247 Account migration error "Invalid domain name in the request url." occurs for domain move.
Account Migration 475141 PowerShell error "Module could not be correctly formed. Please run Connect-ExchangeOnline again" occurs.
Mail Migration 469563 Mailbox migration pauses when 'System.OutOfMemoryException' occurs.
Mail Migration 490117 When resetting a mailbox task the error "there was an error saving this task" occurs.
SharePoint Migration 489359 Changed name for Documents library not migrated correctly between source and target sites with different default languages
SharePoint Migration 488576 Target item counts returned by Collect Statistics task for Teams sites is incorrect.
Teams & Groups Migration 485991 Messages within the HTML file are not arranged by time/date.

April 17, 2024

Resolved issues

Module ID Description
Mail Migration 463262 Thread is being aborted during Meeting link migration.
Mail Migration 478586 Report entry not generated for "Interrupted" sessions.
Mail Migration 367037 Warnings for calendars created without meetings to be processed.

April 09, 2024

Deprecated Features

Module ID Description
Teams & Groups Migration 485860 The Use additional Team Chats licenses for faster archiving option in the Migration Actions step of the New Chats Migration Task wizard has been temporarily deactivated because the message order in the archived file cannot be guaranteed due to a limitation of the Microsoft API. If you want to use this option regardless of the limitation, contact Quest Technical Support.

Enhancements

Module ID Description
Teams & Groups Migration 473337 Account Type column and filter in Mailbox Type in Chats List View helps you identify user accounts by mailbox type.

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.
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