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Rahul-7230 asked SimonBurbery-9608 answered

Migrate Azure AD Tenant to Tenant

Hi Team,

Need some advice in Azure AD tenant to tenant Migration. ( Not sure if this is available within Microsoft)

Aim: Migrate selected users/groups from one AD to new AD. It's a divestiture Migration scenario. Eg. Company ABC corp have one single AD consist of users from AAA and BBB companies but now they are separating. BBB going for his own AD and environment.

Existing Setup: Hybrid Azure AD Environment, Single AD forest.

Following is the approach consideration:
1. Migrate only selected user from source AD to target AD. (On-Premises AD)
2. After users got migrated to target AD. Setup AD connect and sync these users from target AD to Azure AD.

Let me know if the above approach is right or not , also any advice on best practices to achieve this scenario.

Also I got few doubt after migrating users from source to target AD. At what stage I need to move Custom domain from Source Azure AD to target Azure AD at very beginning or need to do this in the end ? What I'm thinking if we do batch-wise migration so we need to still keep the custom domain in source tenant till we completely migrate all selected users. But thinking if we didn't do this in the beginning then user sync via AD connect from new target on-prem AD to new Azure AD would fail because user in on-prem AD got custom domain in his UPN and email but when syncing to new Azure AD it's missing.

In case if we don't add custom domain then user would change to **.onmicrosoft.com* domain and later we can add it to new Azure AD tenant and we will change primary domain for all users.


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alfredorevilla-msft avatar image alfredorevilla-msft ·

@Rahul-7230 how do you plan to migrate your on premise users?

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LITRS-5211 answered j0rt3g4 commented

Hi Rahul @Rahul-7230 did you get this sorted? Interested also to understand how you plan to migrate the on-prem users too?

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HtooHtoo-7402 avatar image HtooHtoo-7402 ·

Hi
Have you get the solution how to migrate tenant to tenant migration?
I have also the same purpose. Or Microsoft has any tools?

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j0rt3g4 avatar image j0rt3g4 HtooHtoo-7402 ·

I think you can use IMAP Migration to get it from the Onmicrosoft one to the other domain. or simply do a Ediscovery PST file and then do a Cloud Import (creating a CSV file to map the local PST to a user on cloud ) and that should be it

Another tool is to use 3rd party tools.

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SimonBurbery-9608 answered

  1. Quest AD migration is a great tool for the on-premises domain migration at a reasonable cost. Enable SID history so the users can still connect to resources as normal in the source domain while you move things across.

  2. We trust 'ProfWiz.exe' to migrate workstations into the new domain (although you can use Quest as well) - it is low-cost, seamless and allows the user to log in to the same profile in the new domain. i.e. manually mapped drives, print queues, wallpaper etc are retained and work as normal (based on using Quest to copy SID history, users and passwords to the new domain).

  3. You can now migrate the mailboxes cross-tenant using this procedure: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/enterprise/cross-tenant-mailbox-migration?view=o365-worldwide. Another write up on this is here: https://www.howdoiuseacomputer.com/index.php/2022/04/02/microsoft-365-cross-tenant-migration. Forwarding is used to keep the mail flowing while you plan to migrate the custom domain across.

  4. You could also use cloud migration solutions such as BitTitan, SkyKick or Quest On-Demand Email migration to keep it simple but at a cost per mailbox.



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