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Copper Contributor

Apr 13, 2022

M365 GCC High to M365 Commercial migration

I have seen several articles about tenant-to-tenant migrations including M365 commercial migrations to M365 GCC High but have not seen any that provide guidance about migrating from M365 GCC High bac...

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SabersKiss

Copper Contributor

Jul 21, 2023

Not really, but the client wasn't utilizing much of the 365 features, so it's probably not a fair comparison. They were in GCC Low, and they only used email, OneDrive, and Teams chat. Literally it was only four users to move.

The hardest parts for us was licensing both tenants for the transition. (We use Pax8 for licensing.) We had to open a second support ticket with Microsoft to buy GCC licenses direct in the old tenant to keep things going while we changed the linked tenant in Pax8 to buy the licenses for the Commercial tenant.
We had a little trouble with BitTitan's migration, but that was just normal authentication issues.

I'm not aware of a way to migrate things like PowerBI, or Planner Plans, Forms, etc. Those could be a nightmare.

chuck99z28

Copper Contributor

Oct 20, 2023

We're up for gcch renewal in two weeks. Were you able to extend by a month or two?

SabersKiss
Copper Contributor
Oct 20, 2023
chuck99z28 Yes. Once we had the licenses purchased by MS direct in the GGC Low tenant we could let it sit there as long as we wanted. Once we were done, we just cancelled the licenses in the GCC tenant, and we were done. Another tech took care of this part, so I can't speak to exactly what happened, but I think we had to get the annual commitment but were refunded for the remainder when we cancelled. Something about monthly commitment wasn't available. I don't understand what the deal was because at the time Pax8 didn't have an annual commitment option for GCC licenses. So, apparently MS direct purchasing was a little different. Despite it only being a few users, it took us several months to get it done. (For reasons completely unrelated to technical reasons). So, I know you can have the licenses in there for a while if needed.