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On Demand Migration
Migrate all your workloads with one comprehensive tenant-to-tenant Office 365 migration solution. On Demand Migration is a Microsoft 365 tenant-to-tenant migration tool that allows you to simply and securely consolidate and migrate all your Microsoft 365 tenants running such workloads as Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint and Teams, as well as on-premises Active Directory and Entra ID. An intuitive dashboard gives you complete visibility into your migration project. Track progress in real-time, all while ensuring coexistence during the migration of your Exchange mailboxes and other Microsoft Office components.
Tenant-to-Tenant Migrations: Scoping Your Project – Matching Requirement to Native & Paid Tools
Teams Migration: Overcoming the Key Challenges
A Guide to AD Migrations and Directory Synchronization
One solution. Many workloads.
Migrating Active Directory and Entra ID is one of the most challenging components of an enterprise M&A or modernization initiative. On Demand Migration (ODM), a leading Microsoft 365 migration tool, helps you integrate and migrate users, groups, and devices between Active Directory, Entra ID and hybrid directory environments, without requiring trusts, SQL, network connectivity, or installing servers. This cloud-based SaaS solution provides a management dashboard for scheduling and automation, is highly adaptable to custom configurations, and keeps migrated and un-migrated users and groups in sync during AD or Entra ID migrations. Plus, you can modernize and migrate your devices to the cloud. With ODM you can:
- Move AD, hybrid Entra ID, and Entra ID devices from one environment to another while retaining user settings, including Microsoft Outlook profiles
- Provision target users, groups and contacts, including syncing passwords for AD accounts
- Migrate domains from one tenant to another without impacting mail delivery or causing email server downtime
Capabilities covered under this use case include:
Establishing coexistence is the first step toward integration, and is a crucial component you must plan for from the outset of your Office 365 migration. After all, if users can’t communicate between tenants or access their Exchange mailbox, business operations become chaotic. On Demand Migration (ODM) offers short and long-term coexistence services for local and cloud-based environments. These capabilities are particularly critical during the hybrid migration projects due to the business-critical nature of the sub-systems they are servicing, such as email messaging and calendaring. You can use this SaaS solution to:
- Enable coexistence between multiple environments to provide a unified address list for Microsoft Exchange
- Provide a consistent brand by sharing an email domain between multiple tenants
- Keep migrated and non-migrated users in sync, ensuring seamless access to Outlook Web App
Capabilities covered under this use case include:
Preserving valuable user content during a Microsoft 365 tenant-to-tenant migration is essential to ensuring that end users can communicate and remain productive after a migration. On Demand Migration (ODM) helps you migrate user-created content in Exchange and OneDrive, acting as a comprehensive Office 365 migration tool. With this SaaS solution, you’ll ensure that users never lose access to their data, including content stored in public folders and PST files. In addition, you’ll preserve document versions and metadata associated with each document, while still retaining the ability to exclude unwanted data to increase migration speed and reduce data loss. With ODM you can:
- Migrate mailboxes from Exchange or tenant-to-tenant, including IMAP migrations
- Move OneDrive content from one tenant to another
- Update Outlook profiles and connect Office applications to the new tenant
- Perform email migrations with minimal downtime
Capabilities covered under this use case include:
- Exchange migration, including on-premises and hosted Exchange
- Hybrid Exchange migration
- OneDrive migration
Maintaining shared content is pivotal to ensure end user productivity after a Microsoft 365 tenant-to-tenant migration. On Demand Migration (ODM) helps you keep users collaborating by migrating documents, conversations and other valuable data stored in SharePoint document libraries, Teams channels and Microsoft 365 Groups. Using this cloud-based SaaS solution, you can make sure end users will continue to participate and interact in discussions, even after they have been migrated, including all historical data and email messages. In addition, you’ll fully preserve the metadata, site and document permissions, to make the transition seamless to end users. With ODM you can:
- Migrate Teams and M365 Groups from one tenant to another, including channel conversations and Planner Plans
- Migrate lists and libraries in SharePoint Online from one tenant to another
- Preserve metadata, site and document permissions
- Ensure smooth collaboration and messaging continuity
Capabilities covered under this use case include:
More than 30 Years of Migration Expertise
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One Solution. Many Workloads. Migrate all your Microsoft 365 workloads including Exchange Online, OneDrive, SharePoint Online, Teams, M365 Groups and Chats, Power BI, Email Domains, Active Directory, and Entra ID using our comprehensive Office 365 migration tool.
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Worldwide Available. ODM is a 100% Azure based SaaS platform with redundant and highly available infrastructure located in independent regional data centers in Australia, Canada, North Europe, United Kingdom, and United States.
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Complete Control. Intuitive project management interface provides visibility allowing you to stage, schedule and resolve problems in your migration project, including email migration and Exchange server transitions.
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Coexistence for Collaboration. Maintain user communication and collaboration throughout the migration so your users can keep working with minimal impact on their Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Web access.
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Secure Migrations. Get the security standards, service level and scalability you need. ISO certifications include ISO/IEC27001:2013, ISO/IEC 27017:2015 and ISO/IEC 27018:2019. Also SOC2 Type 2 attestation. Our Microsoft 365 migration tool ensures encryption and protection against malware and spam during the migration process.
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The Market Leader for Migration. Quest offers more than 30 years of migration expertise and a support organization that is unmatched in the industry. We have seen it all and are here to help you simplify your Office 365 migration, whether you're dealing with on-premises Exchange servers, PST files, or cloud-based email accounts.
Subscription Plans
On Demand Migration is available under a number of subscription scenarios, including T3, T5 and T7 options.
1. Services required | 2. Can be sold standalone
T3
T5
T7
Add-On
Azure Users and Groups
Exchange Online
OneDrive
SharePoint Online
Microsoft Teams & Groups
Power BI
Active Directory & Entra ID (Device) Migration (Note 1 & 2)
Directory Sync (Note 1 & 2)
Domain Rewrite (Note 2)
Domain Move (Note 1 & 2)
Microsoft Teams Chat Add-On
Hybrid Exchange (Note 2)
Ten Minutes on Tenant-to-Tenant Migration
FAQ
Yes, while most organizations have all their Microsoft resources contained in a single Office 365 tenant, some companies have multiple tenants. This is most common when a company has gone through a merger or acquisition but has not consolidated their tenant resources. In these scenarios, each Office 365 tenant is separate, having unique tenant IDs, separate directories, and unique email domains they are authorized to use.
For companies that plan to manage multiple tenants long-term without consolidating, Microsoft recommends configuring a multitenant organization to simplify cross-tenant collaboration in Teams and SharePoint. Third-party Directory Sync and Domain Rewrite solutions will also help enable consistent branding and user experience for the remaining Office 365 workloads. Performing a tenant to tenant migration will allow you to centralize all resources into a single instance to simplify management and reduce costs.
A successful tenant-to-tenant migration requires thorough planning and testing and should start with a complete assessment of the tenants to inventory Microsoft 365 objects and settings. This discovery will help identify the resources and content in scope for migration so you can create a realistic project plan and timeline.
You will need to manually configure some settings, policies, and licenses in the target tenant, but you can utilize native and third-party migration solutions to easily migrate identities, domains, and content from one Microsoft 365 tenant to another. Decide whether you will perform a big-bang cutover or a phased migration, and then perform test and pilot migrations before proceeding with velocity migrations.
Use Entra migration tools to migrate Microsoft 365 objects such as users, groups, devices, and domains from one tenant to another. For larger migrations, these tools can also provide long-term coexistence through directory synchronization and domain rewrite.
Migrate individual Microsoft 365 workloads using Microsoft solutions or perform a complete tenant to tenant migration using a third-party migration tool like On Demand Migration. Migrate content, settings, and permissions for mailboxes, OneDrives, Teams, private chats, Power BI, and SharePoint and finish the migration by switching user identities and updating Office applications.
Tenant-to-tenant migrations allow organizations to consolidate multiple Office 365 tenants but can be challenging if performed without proper planning and testing. Some common technical concerns include the potential for data loss, broken links in migrated content, and missing permissions in the target. To mitigate these risks, compare the supported migration features for each Office 365 workload using different migration methods, research what types of data are not supported for tenant to tenant migration, and perform thorough testing to confirm migration functionality and data fidelity.
A common business challenge is reducing the impact on user productivity, especially when users are not migrated together. Larger organizations often require a phased migration approach due to the number of users and data to be migrated. These companies may be able to reduce the overall duration of their Office 365 migration by reducing the migration scope, pre-staging resources in the target, and only migrating recent mailbox content and the latest versions of files. In longer phased migrations, organizations may implement a coexistence solution to simplify collaboration between migrated and non-migrated users. Most migration solutions will also provide guidance and best practices on orchestrating your tenant to tenant migration for maximum throughput.
