Working with On Demand Migration
The On Demand Migration introduces a new Migration UI that provides high-level, intuitive project management for migrating accounts and content from one tenant to another. Now you can create a migration project that provides a full range of migration features, and track accounts and content migration in one comprehensive migration project dashboard. Also now you can use new My Projects list view for the birds-eye view on all your migration projects.
By default new Migration UI is now turned on. In case you prefer to use a classic user interface, turn off the new Migration UI by means of the slider in the top right corner of the main migration project Dashboard and return to the classic migration UI, to the project management interface and in-depth progress reporting you are used before.
New Migration UI: Basic migration workflow
Classic Migration UI: Basic migration workflow
Basic migration workflow consists of the following steps:
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IMPORTANT: Quest recommends that any full scale migration should be preceded by test and pilot migrations to ensure that your migration tasks and procedures will accommodate the organization requirements. |
Test and Pilot Migrations
Any full scale migration should be preceded by test and pilot migrations, to confirm that your migration processes and procedures will accommodate the organization requirements.
- A test migration uses real users and real data in a segregated test environment, or dummy users and dummy data in your live production environment.
- A pilot migration uses a small portion of real users and real data in the live production environment.
In either case - a test or pilot migration - the data to be migrated should be a representative sample of the production data, and the test or pilot migration should be run with the Quest applications set for the same configuration and process options that you intend to use for the production migration. it is recommended to select test or pilot users whose usage and data types make them representative of the total user population. Then create and run matching / migration tasks for those accounts, including all range of tasks you are planning to perform. When the tasks are completed, review errors and warnings, if any. See Event Management section for more information.
Quest recommends that you use both test and pilot migrations:
Perform one or more test migrations in a separate test environment, migrating test copies of real users and their real data. The separate test environment ensures that no test process will affect the data or configurations of your production environment. If a test exposes any problems under migration, you can make amendments and then repeat the test by simply dumping the test environment and recreating it from scratch.
When you are confident that your test migrations have sufficiently refined your planned migration, perform a pilot migration for 20 or 30 users to verify if your planned migration is satisfactory for your "real world."
Project Management
The On Demand Migration introduces a new Migration UI that provides high-level, intuitive project management for migrating accounts and content from one tenant to another. Now you can create a migration project that provides a full range of migration features, and track accounts and content migration in one comprehensive migration project dashboard. Also now you can use new My Projects list view for the birds-eye view on all your migration projects.
By default, new Migration UI is now turned on. In case you pSee use a classic user interface, turn off the new Migration UI by means of the slider in the top right corner of the Project Dashboard and return to the project management interface and in-depth progress reporting you are used before.
In case you use new Migration UI, for the birds-eye view on all your migration projects, go to My Projects. On the My Project list you can:
- View all migration projects that are already created for your organization
- Create new migration project
- Analyze migration project state and view robust statistics for account migration and content migration features for every migration project. Migration project features are available depending on your subscription.
- Open main migration project Dashboard using OPEN PROJECT link
- Quickly navigate to Dashboards for managing migration project features (Accounts, Mail, OneDrive, SharePoint, or Teams) using links above feature state widgets. Use breadcrumbs for return to main project Dashboard.
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TIP: Click on you pair of tenants in the breadcrumbs for return to main project Dashboard. |
- Delete migration projects. To delete migration project click
control in the top right corner of migration project tile and select delete project. Consider, that all project data will be lost in case the project is deleted. This action cannot be undone.
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Caution: Disable Address Rewrite Service, if enabled, in case you want to delete the migration project. |
In case you use classic user interface, for the birds-eye view on your account migration project, go to account migration project Dashboard.
See the Account Migration project Dashboard in case you are using new Migration UI for details
Project Dashboard
New Migration UI
All information about the migration project features is summarized on the main project Dashboard. The main Dashboard content depends on your subscription.
On the main migration dashboard you can:
- Get started the migration project using Welcome widget
- Navigate to the following migration dashboards using widgets:
- Track the project flow in the Tasks widget.
- Monitor the migration process, detect, and troubleshoot the issues with the Events widget.
Account Migration dashboard in classic Migration UI
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Breadcrumbs |
Keep track of your location within project and quickly return to the previous steps. |
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Menu |
Configure, manage, and control every aspect of the migration project. Match and migrate Azure AD accounts, process resources with Accounts, migrate mail with Mailboxes,migrate OneDrive for Business stores with OneDrive, monitor and troubleshoot the project with Events, and control the flow of the migration with Tasks. |
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Notification area |
Action items, alerts, tips, tricks, and other notifications are displayed in this area. |
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Action pane |
Set up and fine tune the migration with these commands. |
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Collection list |
View existing account collections and add new account collections. See Collection Dashboard for details |
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Getting Started widget |
Don’t know where to start? Check our Quick Help. |
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Accounts widget |
See the summary on accounts and quickly navigate to the list of accounts |
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Mailboxes widget |
See the summary on mailboxes and quickly navigate to the list of mailboxes |
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OneDrive widget |
See the summary on OneDrive for Business stores and quickly navigate to the list of OneDrive users |
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Tasks widget |
See the status summary for the current migration flow and quickly navigate to all tasks |
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Errors widget |
See the summary on warnings and errors and quickly navigate to all migration events |
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Domain Coexistence widget |
Start Address Rewrite Service, monitor the service and quickly navigate to the list of mailboxes that already have associated target pairs and can be added to the service. See Domain Coexistence for details |
