Before you start, verify that you have discovered all the Microsoft 365 groups without teams. Make sure that all accounts that are members of these groups, have been discovered and matched with accounts in the target tenant. Group members are not added to groups in this step. Use the migration task to migrate group membership.
To provision Microsoft 365 Groups:
- Log in to Quest On Demand and choose an organization if you have multiple organizations.
- From the navigation pane, click Migration to open the My Projects list.
- Create a new project or open an existing project.
- Click the Teams tile, or click Open from the Teams tile to open the Teams dashboard.
- Click theM365 Groups tab.
- Select one or more groups from the Groups List View.
- Click Provision. The New Groups Provisioning Task wizard opens.
- Step 1: Provision Options
These options control the actions of the provisioning task if the selected groups already exist in the target tenant. Groups that are not in the target tenant will be automatically provisioned.
Select and configure the options as described below:
- Do not provision the group - The group will be skipped if it exists in the target tenant.
- Provision a new group. A suffix will be added to the original name - A new group will be provisioned with the specified suffix appended to the group name
- New group display name suffix - Specify a suffix to append to the group name. The default suffix is (migrated).
- Merge with the existing group - Select this option to set up a mapping between a source and target group with the same name. When members are migrated with the migration task, the accounts that are members of the source group will be added to the same group in the target tenant.
- Suppress automatic Group Welcome Message sending - Select the check box to prevent group members from receiving a welcome message.
- Multi-geo options: Preferred location - If the target tenant is geo-enabled, select a location to update the geo location of the selected groups in the target tenant. The default is None. See Microsoft 365 Multi-Geo availability for the description of the geo locations in the dropdown list.
- Step 2: Notification
- Send notification email once the task is completed - select this option to send a notification email when a provisioning task completes.
- Only in a case of failure - select this option to send the email if the provisioning task fails to complete successfully.
- Recipients - enter the email address of the recipients of this email. You can specify multiple recipient email addresses separated by semicolon.
- Click Next.
- Send notification email once the task is completed - select this option to send a notification email when a provisioning task completes.
- Step 3: Schedule
- Choose from one of three options to schedule the task. The scheduler will be activated only after you complete the task wizard.
- Run now - task runs immediately.
- Run later - task must be started manually.
- Schedule - task will be started at a future date and time.
- Start - enter the start time for the task.
- Click Next.
- Choose from one of three options to schedule the task. The scheduler will be activated only after you complete the task wizard.
- Step 4: Summary
- Verify the task specifications as described below:
- Name - Name of the task. The default name is Provision Groups. You can specify a custom name.
- Source tenant - Name of the source tenant in this project.
- Target tenant - Name of the target tenant in this project.
- Scheduled start - Date and time when the task will start. Now indicates that the task will start immediately.
- Click Back to revise or review a previous step or click Finish to complete the task wizard and start the task as scheduled.
- Verify the task specifications as described below:
The migration task is created. You can track its progress from the Taskstab, view the summary on the Dashboard or monitor alerts and notifications from the Eventstab.