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Tenant-to-Tenant Migration with Orchestrator – Technical Overview (Microsoft 365 | Preview)
This solution will replace user data migration, and what's the cost for it?
Hi Moustafa-Sherif ,
Not completely.
The Microsoft 365 Migration Orchestrator is mainly for user data migration across tenants, but it does not replace every migration workload or every third-party tool scenario.
Today, the main supported scope is:
- Exchange Online mailbox data
- OneDrive user data
- Teams chats and meetings, currently in preview
It does not migrate all SharePoint collaboration content such as Team sites, Communication sites, channel sites, Planner, Power Platform, devices, or full tenant configuration. Those still need separate planning, tooling, or manual migration processes.
Regarding cost, Microsoft requires the Cross-Tenant User Data Migration license per user as a one-time migration license. It can be assigned either on the source or target user object. Microsoft documentation also states that this license enables the migration of Exchange Online mailboxes and OneDrive included in the orchestrated migration.
During preview, Microsoft states that no additional licenses are required specifically for Teams meetings and Teams chats migrations.
Microsoft documentation:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/migration/migration-orchestrator-1-overviewSo I would position it as a native Microsoft option for orchestrated user data migration, not as a full replacement for all tenant-to-tenant migration tooling.
