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On Demand Migration Current - Release Notes

Release History

Nov 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

Nov 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, 2022

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.

Oct 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.

Sep 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.

Sep 12, 2023

Enhancements

Module ID Description
SharePoint Migration 425812 A new option in the List Options step of the New SharePoint Migration Task wizard lets you automatically re-run the list item migration during list migrations to retry and repair missing items.
SharePoint Migration 4400747 Incremental list migration has been improved.

Resolved issues

Module ID Description
Mail Migration 446470 Force Autodiscover service for archive mailboxes to get alternate archive mailbox information
Mail Migration 440930 Estimation counter used in migration events indicates the same count for different workloads
SharePoint Migration 444672 List view migrations are taking too long if there are a large number of views
SharePoint Migration 444263 “Everyone except external users” group membership is not migrated
SharePoint Migration 444674 Webs with comma in name cannot be remapped
SharePoint Migration 446269 Unique permissions are not migrated for migration tasks initiated in a Teams migration task
SharePoint Migration 447091 The ZeroKBSkippedCount parameter in the details of the Provision List <list-name> - Completed event is not correct if count is above 1000 files.

Sep 07, 2023

Resolved issues

Module ID Description
OneDrive Migration 446850 OneDrive is not provisioned during migration.

Resolution: OneDrive must be provisioned for users in the target tenant either manually or with a PowerShell script. A warning message will appear if users with unprovisioned OneDrives in the target tenant are migrated.

Aug 29, 2023

Enhancements

Module ID Description
Teams & Groups Migration 436322 Throughput performance of Teams and Groups migration tasks has been improved with a better integration with SharePoint.
Teams & Groups Migration 423406 Custom EWS URLs specified in the Configure Connections step when you configure a migration project are validated and inherited by mailboxes of Groups being migrated.

Aug 22, 2023

Resolved issues

Module ID Description
SharePoint Migration 424431 Intermittent error when attempting to download files.
SharePoint Migration 442857 Not all versions were migrated for incremental migrations with skip or copy to new file conflict resolution settings selected.
SharePoint Migration 441561 Some links in wiki page web parts are not properly remapped for migrations where the site was remapped.
SharePoint Migration 443254 Unexpected error when system is performing a cleanup after a call to MS Export API fails.
OneDrive Migration 443019 User is unable to access the Reporting feature when they have a custom RBAC role

Aug 15, 2023

Enhancements

Module ID Description
Teams & Groups Migration 438523 With the new File Conflict Options step in the New Teams Migration Task wizard and the New Groups Migration Task wizard, you can address any conflicts that may occur with files attached to teams or groups during their migration from the source to the target tenant.

Resolved issues

Module ID Description
General Migration 440813 Insufficient permissions error while trying to export error logs with a custom role

Aug 10, 2023

Resolved issues

Module ID Description
SharePoint Migration 441184, 436848 List migrations stops due to missing manifest file.
SharePoint Migration 438825, 437763 Building list of users and groups if system groups like Excel Service are involved throws error "Unable to cast objects of type ImportGroup to ImportUser."
SharePoint Migration 439040 Site content discovery fails when discovering 'User Information List'
SharePoint Migration 440824 Repair process in the migration task fails to run if only skipped files are in the failed file table.

August 03, 2022

New Features

Module Feature Description
SharePoint Migration Site mapping with a supported template Before you migrate a site, the New Site Mapping Task wizard helps you to rename the migrated site, relocate the site with a different Url, or replace the unsupported site template with a supported template so that lists and list items can be migrated.
SharePoint Migration Web mapping Before you migrate a web, the New Web Mapping Task wizard helps you to rename the migrated web, relocate the web to a different parent, promote the web to a site, or replace the unsupported web template with a supported template.

Enhancements

Module ID Description
SharePoint Migration 435149 The New List Mapping Task wizard offers a new option to merge a SharePoint list in the source tenant with a specified list in the target tenant.
Public Folder Migration 440214 You can use a CSV file to specify relative paths to discover Public Folders in the source tenant

Resolved issues

Module ID Description
SharePoint Migration 408153 Team members group getting added as site collection administrator
SharePoint Migration 419036 Improved deserialization during migrations
SharePoint Migration 420492 Migrating site level term group issues

July 27, 2023

Enhancements

Module ID Description
Teams & Groups Migration 434952 Migration of OneNote content to the default Notes tab created (by Microsoft) when teams are provisioned in the target tenant is supported with some limitations.

Resolved issues

Module ID Description
SharePoint Migration 437114 Import batch fails because user information is not in UserGroup.xml.
SharePoint Migration 437858 System SharePoint group renamed by user was not migrated correctly.
SharePoint Migration 437936 Improved retry around transient JSON errors.
SharePoint Migration 436840 Conflict resolution checks for files on the target tenant fails under load.
SharePoint Migration 428421 Improved term store migration under high loads. Source and target tenant SharePoint Migration consents must be regranted before performing a migration of the global term store or the site term group in a site migration. A warning event will be displayed indicating the requirement of regranting constents. This warning will appear during SharePoint Contents discovery, term group migration and site migration if the user select to migrate site term group.

July, 18, 2022

Deprecated Features

Module ID Description
Teams & Groups Migration 435741 The options to collect statistics for groups has been removed from the following task wizards: New Groups Discovery Task and New Teams & Groups Discovery Task.

Enhancements

Module ID Description
Teams & Groups Migration 423809 To manage large lists of teams in a project, you can remove one or more teams from the teams list view. The teams that are removed will remain in the source tenant and you must re-discover the teams in the project when you need them for migration.
Teams & Groups Migration 435741 You can collect statistics about selected M365 Groups in the source tenant with the Collect Statistics action from the M365 Groups tab in the Teams workspace. When the groups are provisioned, you can collect statistics for the groups in the target tenant as well.

Resolved issues

Module ID Description
Mail Migration 437993 Mail migration progress bar jumps from 54% to 100%.
Mail Migration 423194 Record does not appear immediately in reports after the migration is completed.
Mail Migration 436559 Cannot migrate recoverable Items folder if it has a hold.
Mail Migration 437383 Cannot migrate mail from a Gmail source to a custom folder in Office 365.
Public Folder Migration 438325 Removed Remote PowerShell code for Public Folders and replaced with Exchange v3 to align with changes by Microsoft.
Public Folder Migration 437476 UserDisplayName was not present in the dictionary

June 22, 2022

Deprecated Features

Module ID Description
Account Migration 418701 The option select Refresh All Discovered Accounts has been removed from the List View menu.

Enhancements

Module ID Description
Account Migration 418701 Before you migrate accounts you can now choose the Refresh Selected Accounts action to start the New Refresh Selected Accounts Task wizard. This task will refresh only the accounts that you select.

June 20, 2023

Deprecated Features

Module ID Description
Teams & Groups Migration 421939 The following options have been removed from the New Teams Discovery Task wizard:
  • Collect Last Activity for Teams

The following options have been removed from the New Teams & Groups Discovery Task wizard:

  • Collect Plan and Task statistics for Teams
  • Collect Message statistics for Teams
  • Collect Plan and Task statistics for Groups
  • Collect Last Activity for Teams

Enhancements

Module ID Description
OneDrive Migration 420219 Two new columns have been added to the OneDrive List View:
  • Source Last Modified
  • Source Root URL
OneDrive Migration 406059 Improved handling of cases where quota for target OneDrive is exceeded during migration.
Teams Migration 414234 Two new options are available in the Archiving Options step of the New Teams Migration Task wizard.
  • Archive target team if source team is archived
  • Make target SharePoint site read only

Resolved issues

Module ID Description
SharePoint Migration 422144 Improved processing of generic list types.
SharePoint Migration 430481 Discovery of sites from file task in multi -geo tenants has issues

June 08, 2023

Enhancements

Module ID Description
SharePoint Migration 403629 Performance improvement for sites with many users. Users are migrated as needed during the migration instead of all at once at the start of the migration. This will speed up migrations of sites with many active users and reduce warnings about unmapped users.

Resolved issues

Module ID Description
Mail Migration 427765 Some types of mail messages are not migrated.
SharePoint Migration 425601 Private channel team sites (TeamChannel site templates) could not be migrated in ODM SharePoint after being discovered during team provisioning in ODM Teams.
SharePoint Migration 428427 Term Store hangs during large migrations.
SharePoint Migration 428768 Conflict resolution fails if a migrated file is renamed and another item is added with the old file name.
SharePoint Migration 429215 Update content discovery task to reset the visibility of lists that were previously hidden in the ODM SharePoint list view.
SharePoint Migration 428842 User names that contain an apostrophe creates migration issues.
SharePoint Migration 428566 List was not set to Migrated with issues when the source and target counts did not match after a Refresh (Incremental/Repair) migration.

Incident Response Management

Quest Operations and Quest Support have procedures in place to monitor the health of the system and ensure any degradation of the service is promptly identified and resolved. On Demand Migration relies on Microsoft Azure infrastructure and as such is subject to the possible disruption of the related services.

You can view the following status pages:

System requirements

The following web browsers are supported with On Demand:

  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 11
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Google Chrome (latest version)
  • Mozilla Firefox (latest version)
System requirements for Desktop Update Agent deployment

Software Requirements

  • Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365 or MSO) 32-bit or 64-bit when Office re-activation option is selected
  • Outlook 2016 (32-bit or 64-bit) or higher (Including Click to Run version and ISO version)
  • OneDrive for Business (Most recent updates recommended)
  • Microsoft Teams (Most recent updates recommended)
  • Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit) or Windows 10 (32-bit or 64-bit)
  • .NET 4.7.2 or higher
  • Supports HTTPS Port 443

NOTE:

If OneDrive for Business, Microsoft Teams, or Office are not installed on the workstation, these applications will be skipped and will not impact any other applications present during the reconfiguration.

Authentication Requirements

  • Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
  • Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS)
  • Single Sign On (SSO) with mixed authentication modes, such as:
    • Modern Authentication (ADAL)
    • Forms Authentication
    • Windows Integrated Authentication

Product Licensing

Quest On Demand is a Software as a Service (SaaS) application where application software is hosted in the cloud and made available to users through quest-on-demand.com.

Use of this software is governed by the Software Transaction Agreement found at www.quest.com/legal/sta.aspx and the Data Processing Addendum at www.quest.com/legal/dpa.aspx. This software does not require an activation or license key to operate.

You can sign in to On Demand as a Guest user and review the solutions that the product offers. As a Guest user, you can add your Azure AD tenant and look for problems that can be solved by On Demand. To sign in as a Guest user, go to quest-on-demand.com and click Continue as Guest.

Trial subscriptions are available. Visit Quest® On Demand Migration page for more information and pricing: https://www.quest.com/products/on-demand-migration/

To start a trial subscription

NOTE: You can use the product free during a 30-day trial period for a limited number of users allowed to be migrated

  1. Open https://www.quest.com/products/on-demand-migration/.
  2. Scroll down to the module you want to try and click Try Online.
  3. To proceed you should read and accept license agreement.
  4. Select Sign In for your Free Trial option to use your existing Quest account, or Create a Trial account option to create a new account.
  5. You will receive an email containing step by step instructions on starting your trial period for the product.

The following table shows the trial license limits:

Module

License

Limitation

Accounts

5 Accounts

none

Email

5 Mailboxes

5 GB content per mailbox

OneDrive

5 Accounts

256 files or 256 MB per OneDrive account

SharePoint

5 SP sites

5 GB content per SharePoint site. ODMSP will not discover sites with more than 5 GB.

Teams / M365 Groups

5 Teams or Groups

5 GB content per Teams or M365 Groups

1x1 Chats

5 Accounts

The most recent 2 conversations and max 20 messages per conversation.

To purchase a commercial subscription

  1. Open https://www.quest.com/products/on-demand-migration/.
  2. Click Request Pricing and fill in the necessary details.
  3. Click Contact Sales to request pricing and get help with your business needs.

The product licensing is based on the number of unique source accounts processed by the migration tasks. The licenses are only consumed once the migration task is started.

The following object types do not consume any license,

  • Group mailboxes
  • AD Groups
  • Contacts
  • Exchange resource mailboxes
  • public folder mailboxes
  • room mailboxes or equipment mailboxes
  • shared mailboxes
  • Guest accounts
  • Computer accounts

NOTE: The license is permanently assigned to the source account may only be used for one migration project, and you can use this account in any number of tasks (migration, re-matching, etc.) from one environment to another environment.

The matching task will result in the following error in case the number of users in the task exceeds the number of available licenses.

There are no data limits for OneDrive, SharePoint, mailbox and public folders content migration.

For more information about license usage from subscriptions, see Product Licensing in the On Demand Migration User Guide.

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