The Public Folders migration workflow consists of the following steps:
| # | Step |
|---|---|
| 1 | Create or open a migration project |
| 2 | Configure connections |
| 3 | Discover Public Folders |
| 4 | Migrate Public Folders |
| 5 | Monitor the progress and track issues |
About On Demand Migration
Working with On Demand Migration
Tenants
Consents and Permissions
Throttling
Desktop Update Agent
Test and Pilot Migrations
Project Management
Project Dashboard
Reports
Working with Lists
Searching
Filtering
Templates
Task Management
Event Management
Account Migration
What We Migrate
Accounts and User Data Migration Workspace
Configuring Connections
Discovering Accounts
Exporting Accounts
Removing Accounts
Managing Accounts with Collections
Matching and Mapping Accounts
Collecting Statistics
Assessment
Migrating Accounts
Migrating Group Membership
Domain Coexistence
Mailbox Migration
Address Rewrite Service
Address Rewrite Service Considerations
Address Rewriting Scenarios
Provisioning the Address Rewrite Service
Selecting Mailboxes for Address Rewriting
Configuring SPF Record
Activating Address Rewriting
Deactivating Address Rewriting for Individual Mailboxes
Deactivating Address Rewriting
Calendar Sharing
What We Migrate
Mailboxes List View
Collecting Statistics
Assessment
Migrating Mailboxes
Migrating Meeting Links
Mail Forwarding
Switching Applications in a Domain Move Scenario
OneDrive Migration
What We Migrate
Prerequisites
Dashboard
OneDrive List View
Collecting Statistics
Migrating OneDrive
Assessment
Microsoft Teams Migration
What We Migrate
Prerequisites
Teams Migration Workspace
Discovering Teams and Groups
Discovering Teams
Managing Teams with Collections
Exporting Teams
Mapping Teams
Provisioning Teams
Removing Teams
Collecting Statistics
Premigration Assessment for Teams
Migrating Teams
Remigration
Renaming and Mapping Teams and Groups
Discovering Chats
Managing Chats with Collections
Migrating Chats
Microsoft 365 Groups Migration
What We Migrate
Prerequisites
Discovering Groups
Discovering Teams and Groups
Managing Groups with Collections
Exporting Groups
Provisioning Groups
Removing Groups
Collecting Statistics
Migrating Groups
Renaming and Mapping Teams and Groups
SharePoint Migration
What We Migrate
Limitations
Considerations
Prerequisites
SharePoint Migration Workspace
Configuring the Migration Project
Discovering Term Store
Mapping Geo Located Term Stores
Discovering Sites
Mapping Geo Located Sites
Mapping Sites
Matching Sites
Collecting Statistics
Managing Sites with Collections
Discovering Site Contents
Mapping Webs
Mapping Lists
Migrating Term Stores
Migrating SharePoint Content
Migrating Permissions
Reviewing Migration Results
Exporting Site Collection Mapping
Removing Sites from the Migration Project
Public Folders Migration
What We Migrate
Public Folders Migration Workspace
Prerequisites
Discovering Public Folders
Removing Public Folders from the Migration Project
Mapping Public Folders
Collecting Statistics
Migrating Public Folders
Power BI Migration
What We Migrate
Prerequisites and Limitations
Power BI Migration Workspace
Connecting to Power BI
Discovering Power BI Content
Collecting Statistics
Managing Power BI objects with Collections
Creating and Assigning Connection Profiles
Mapping Workspaces
Matching and Mapping Gateways
Migrating Connections
Migrating Workspaces
Troubleshooting
Finalizing the Migration
Appendix A: Using PowerShell
Appendix B: How Queuing Works
Public Folders Migration
What We Migrate
All types of Public Folders (appointment, contact, journal, mail, note, task, and so on) can be migrated in case they are supported in the target tenant.
Please consider the following migration specifics:
- If the public folder with the same path already exists on the target, the source public folder will not be migrated. Check the Events tab.
- The first processed mailbox will be set as a primary for a public folder. Other mailboxes will be set as secondary public folder mailboxes.
- Send As and Send on Behalf properties will only be transferred for mail-enabled Public Folders.
- Read and unread status is not migrated.
Public Folders Migration Workspace
Dashboard
From this dashboard you can:
- Keep track of your location within project and quickly return to the main project dashboard using breadcrumbs on the top of the pane
- View list of discovered public folders with source and target paths, and last events related to the public folder
- Quickly navigate to the event lists
- Quickly navigate to the tasks list
- Create discovery tasks and public folder migration tasks
- Export feature data into comma-separated file
- Temporarily remove public folders from the migration project
- Search public folder
- Filter public folder by status, by matching state, or by mail settings
- Delete public folder
Prerequisites
Verify the following prerequisites before you start migrating Public Folders:
- Consents for the following permissions are granted for source and target tenants.
- Migration - Basic
- Mailbox Migration
If you want to verify or regrant consents for source and target tenants, see Consents and Permissions.
- User principal name (Username) been provided using Configure Connections.
- Target temporary Migration Manager account has Owner permission to the target public folder root.
- It is highly recommended to match or migrate all accounts in the corresponding migration project to ensure that the folder permissions and account related mail settings will be migrated.
To configure connections:
- Open the Dashboard tab from the Public Folders workspace
- Click Configure Connections from the actions menu. The Configure Connections wizard for Public Folders open.
- Select each tenant that you want to configure. Then click Edit and specify the UserprincipalName of an active user account. The account does not need any permissions, and must not be deactivated or deleted. It cannot be an external or guest account. The UserPrincipalName should not have any special characters. Allowed characters are (a to z, A to Z, 0 to 9, ._-@).
