About On Demand Migration
Before You Start
Required Permissions
Signing up for Quest On Demand
Organizations and Regions
Adding a Tenant
Upgrading Throttling Policies
Working with On Demand Migrations
Test and Pilot Migrations
Project Management
Project Dashboard
Task Management
Event Management
Searching
Filtering
Starting Migration Project
Configuring Connections
Sharing Availability Information
Collecting Account Information
Pre-Migration Assessment
Account Migration
Domain Coexistence
Mail Migration
OneDrive Migration
Resource Processing
Public Folders Migration
What We Migrate: Public Folders Migration
Prerequisites
Configuring Connections for Public Folders Migration
Discovering Public Folders
Migrating Public Folders
SharePoint Online Migration
What We Migrate
Prerequisites
Discovering Sites
Setting Migration Defaults
Matching Sites
Exporting Site Collection Mapping
Migrating Sites
Microsoft Teams Migration
What We Migrate: Microsoft Teams Migration
Project Interface Walkthrough
Prerequisites
Discovering Teams
Exporting Mapping for Teams
Using Manual Mapping for Teams
Pre-Migration Assessment for Teams
Provisioning Teams for Target Tenant
Migrating Microsoft Teams
Troubleshooting
Finalizing the Migration
About On Demand Migration
Quest® On Demand Migration cloud application lets you perform the following:
Account Migration
- Analyze the structure of your Microsoft Azure Active Directory and get reports on the problems that might adversely affect the migration.
- Migrate Azure AD users, groups, and the related information between tenants.
- Migrate Microsoft Office 365 mailboxes and share free/busy information between tenants.
- Map the existing accounts in the source and target tenants for further resource processing.
- Grant migrated accounts access to source tenant’s resources and applications.
- Transfer OneDrive for Business data.
- Provide robust project management interface and in-depth progress reporting.
- Provide coexistence services for transition period before migration process will be completed:
- Address Rewrite Service to change the message header as if the target mailbox is already used by sender.
- Analyze Public Folders on your source tenant and get hierarchy information, content information and email addresses for mail-enabled public folders
- Migrate Public Folders and the related information between tenants
- Provide robust Public Folders migration project management interface and in-depth progress reporting.
- Analyze SharePoint Online on your source tenant
- Map existing SharePoint Online sites (previously site collections) in the source and target tenants for further processing
- Migrate SharePoint Online sites (previously site collections) to the target tenant
- Provide robust SharePoint Online migration project management interface and in-depth progress reporting.
- Analyze Microsoft Teams on your source tenant
- Create Office 365 groups with Teams functionality on the target tenant
- Provision Microsoft Teams on the target tenant
- Migrate Microsoft teams including content to the target tenant
- Provide robust Microsoft Teams migration project management interface and in-depth progress reporting.
On Demand Migration is a part of Quest® On Demand – a single SaaS console for managing your cloud environment in Microsoft Azure. For more information, see Quest On Demand Global Settings documentation.
Before You Start
To access your Azure Active Directory or Office 365 tenant via On Demand Migration, use an Administrative account that has the Global Administrator role.
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TIP: Quest recommends creating a temporary account for On Demand Migration and use it to grant all consents for the project. Once the migration is finished, simply delete this account. |
If you do not have such account, create it with Microsoft Azure administrative portal.
This section provide you with the following information :
- permissions required to perform specific On Demand Migration tasks;
- accessing On Demand service;
- selecting your organization and region;
- adding your tenants;
- upgrading throttling policies to minimize Office 365 throttling impact to overall migration process.
Required Permissions
This section lists the minimum user account permissions required to perform specific On Demand Migration tasks:
| Task | Minimal Permissions |
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| Adding tenant to On Demand | Global Administrator role. Refer to Adding a Tenant for details. |
| Configuring tenant / granting admin consent | Global Administrator role. Refer to Adding a Tenant for details. |
| Discover accounts |
Granted “Migration - Basic” consent and Global Administrator role |
| Statistics on Mailboxes | Global Administrator role |
| Enable calendar sharing | Global Administrator role |
| Migrate accounts | Granted “Migration - Basic” consent and Global Administrator role |
| Migrate mailboxes | Granted “Migration - Basic” consent , Global Administrator role (with Office 365 mailbox and Impersonation Role in Exchange Online). To perform Autodiscover during mail migration an Office 365 mailbox is required. Refer to Obtaining Impersonation Role for Mail Migration for details. |
| Migrate OneDrive storages | Granted “Migration - Resource Processing for SharePoint Online” consent and Global Administrator role. “Migration - Resource Processing for SharePoint Online” consent must be granted for source and target tenants. |
| Process Resource Roles | Granted “Migration - Basic” consent, Global Administrator role, User Access Administrator role for "Quest On Demand - Migration - General [Automation]" |
| Process SharePoint Online | Granted “Migration - Resource Processing for SharePoint Online” consent, turned on external sharing for SharePoint Online and Global Administrator role |
| Process Application Assignments | Granted “Migration - Basic” consent and Global Administrator role. Refer to Adding a Tenant for details. |
Obtaining Impersonation Role for Mail Migration
Mail migration requires Application Impersonation, so that knowledge of the users' credentials is not required. Impersonation role should be configured manually as described below:
- Login to the Office 365 Exchange Admin Portal.
- Go to permissions, then click “+” icon under admin roles to add a new role
- In the Role Group dialog, provide a meaningful name and an optional description for your Role Group. For example, “Impersonation for migration”.
- Click “+” icon under Roles, select ApplicationImpersonation and add it to the role group.
- Click “+” icon under Members, select an administrative account that will perform the migration and add it to the role group.
- Click Save.
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NOTE: It may take some time before the changes are applied to take effect. |